Capacity Building Programme on Inclusive Education by CBSE ….Centre of Excellence,Kolkata

Facilitators of today’s world need to have their skills for inclusive education. In this regard a workshop was conducted by CBSE Kolkata on 22 /4/16 and 23/4/16 on the topic”Capacity Building Programme on Inclusive Education” at Maharishi Vidya Mandir Higher Secondary School,Barsajai,Guwahati.

Around 60 teachers from different schools had participated in it. It was a two days session addressed by resource persons Mr. Umesh Kumar Sharma who is the Assistant Professor of North Eastern Regional Institute of Education and Dr. Saru Joshi who works in Indian Institute of Research and Development for differently abled children.

At the very onset ,one of the teachers of MVM school felicitated the regional head of North Eastern region,CBSE with Gamosha and bouquet who graced the occasion by his valuable short speech on the topic. The session proceeded with an introductory speech given by the Principal of MVM,Barsajai, Mrs.Panchali Roy.
The session started with self introduction of the participants and discussion on the various problems they face in dealing with differently abled children in their respective schools. The workshop was mainly activity based. The resource persons conducted the first group activity through which they made us understand the true meaning of Inclusion and Exclusion in the education system.
Through the next activity they had shown that a differently abled child must be helped at the initial stage to enable him to perform the same in a better way in future without others help.

Next,they gave us the concept of disability and explained the various terms like impairment, autism, dyslexia,dyscalculia,dysgraphia etc. They also did one activity focussing on Multidisciplinary team diagnosis and Labelling.
The second day of the session was started with the introduction of the topic “Self Reflective Teaching”. Next emphasis was laid on the various stages of reading which involved-discrimination and distinction;matching;identification; naming etc. An activity was conducted on “Case Study Analysis”,where the trainees were made to pen down a case study of a student whom they felt  a case of learning problem-what were the challenges faced and the measures which could be undertaken to deal with the problem.

Then moving to the next activity,which was an interesting one based on making of lesson plan for different levels of students. Each group was given to take different topics and based on that topic they had to prepare lesson plan according to the different levels of the students.
Finally one of the participants gave the vote of thanks which was proceeded by the conclusion speech given by Mrs. Panchali Roy.

Inclusive education is still a new philosophy. We need to work together and support each other if we are to realise inclusion of all our marginalized groups into the mainstream of our education. Hope this type of training will help us to be conscious of and respond to the curriculum development needs and requirements inorder to provide a centre further development.

– Dikshita Deka
– Deboleena Bhattacharjee
( TGT )

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Interactive Counselling Session held on 9th April 2016

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child”—George Santayana

Parents and educators are partners in education. When they come together and are inspired to facilitate learning, our children are the winners. With this objective an interactive counselling session with the school authority, students of class-XII, their parents and the PGT teachers was organised in Axel Public School, Lokhra on 9thApril, 2016. The session was meant for formulating and strengthening the education process to the students as it is the most important subject which the educators may be engaged in. 

The session started at 9 am with the registration of parents and students. The  response was very much appreciable. They were given a warm welcome and the objectives of the interactive session were highlighted.

A valuable and inspirational speech was delivered by Hon’ble Director, Mr. Prasanta Choudhury. He reminded the students about the duties and responsibilities and advised them regarding management of time, which is the need of the hour.

Separate questionnaires prepared for parents and students were handed out, where they gave their views and suggestions. The questionnaires provided information about parent-child relationship, interests of the students, their strength and weakness and daily schedule.

Leonardo da Vinci had said, “Time stays long enough for those who use it”.

Everybody should value time as it is very precious. A wonderful video on the value of time was played in order to pave the way to success through proper planning and utilisation of time.

The Principal, Mrs Monti Gogoi Choudhury, expressed pleasure and happiness on the co-operation extended by the parents and students. She started the session by mentioning about the bond between parents, students and teachers.

Role played by parents is very vital which the parents agreed to and opined that their role is not to provide education only but to educate their children mentally and spiritually as well. They need to make their children feel secure and loved. It is the parents who mould the child.

School/Educational institution is considered to be the temple of learning. Educators assist the learners in the institute. School does not provide knowledge pertaining to course content only but educators give in their best to inculcate values and ethics from a very young age. Educators will be able to guide well with the co-operation of the students.

Students should realise their roles and responsibilities inside as well as outside the classroom. Their good behaviour inside the classroom will enable them to acquire the knowledge and skills whereas good behaviour outside the classroom will set examples for others.

Parents, students and educators have to overcome various problems. These problems were catered to during the counselling session. A common problem faced by parents is to make their children study as majority of them do not like to study. So parents face a tough time in motivating them to study. Other problems discussed were – management of time, excess use of mobile phones, excess surfing of the net, playing games and unaware of friends.

Students were given the opportunity to share their problems. Most of them face difficulty in managing time for self study. A few students also expressed the need to develop a friendly relation with their parents. Some also queried about the necessity of following rules and regulations in the school.

The teachers also placed the problems they face in the classroom. Some of the problems were irregularity in school, lack of co-operation , concentration, sincerity, hesitation in clearing doubt, inattentiveness in the class, lack of communication with parents.

The counselling session ended on a positive note wherein it was agreed that for the proper progress and development of the students it is very much essential to motivate and appreciate their achievements and effort. The importance of monitoring the activities of the children was discussed. To cope up with today’s competition children were given tips to handle the stress.

At the end parents, teachers and the school management all expressed their willingness to work as a community with the objective of nurturing and moulding future valuable, responsible citizens of tomorrow.

Dubari Barooah

PGT, Biology

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