Hi Indira,

Thanks for suggestion.ok will try,parents have not a knowledge to teach children's such activities,so very difficult to manage all things.I m looking for skilled volunteers from outside village.i thimk if we invited volunteers from outside village its creat a better result for children's.
Thanks,

Regards,

Nitin

Hi Nitin
Yes you should try to get volunteers atleast from out side village.
Is this class once a week?
make the time table add more activities like spelling 5 or 10 words.
you could use the children for this kind of activity.
regards
Indira

Hi Indira,
Yes,this class once in a week.Thats good idea to make a time table.Ok will make a time table. I already teach 3 to 5 spelling every childrens in class room in a week.I also plannning to invite volunteers twice in a year for encouraging children's activity.if you know such volunteers pl.help me to connect tham with vadgam project.

Thanking you,

Regrads,

Nitin

Hi Nitin
I think until you find volunteers to assist you, you should create
1 leader as your back-up and 4 groups with 6 students. each group appoint
1 team leader. and twice a month rotate them. This will help each student to
get leadership experience and improve self confidence.
It's always better to add more activities like dancing/singing/dramas etc.
I'm sure parents could assist you with above activities.
We could post/submit that we would like to have volunteers from other countries.
but you have to let them know the facilities in Vadagam.
Regards
Indira

Hi Indira,

Wow! what a wonderful idea.ok will creat a leader of each group to develop leadership experence and improve self confidence among the children's which will help me also to find time to manage class room also.pl.forget parents formula to assist class room because they haven't a knowledge or understanding to such activities so its better to findout like minded people to better work on project.

ok,will add more activities in class room suggested by you it will be to more interesting to encouraging childrens and free from tensons.

Thanking you,

Regards,

Nitin

Dear Nitin,

Have you considered the Azim Premji Foundation's CBT materials?
They are good and effective and most importantly available in many Indian regional languages other than English and Hindi.

Here is a list of subjects they cover-
http://www.azimpremjifoundation.org/html/E_Learn_Mat_table1.htm

Hello Everybody,
The Psychologists, the Scintists among you, can you please put together some simple activities/experiements together which can create an interest for education(particularly science) in young minds. Its got to be simple enough so that even an illiterate child of the age of 10-12 can take part. I have seen children preferring their hardworking childlabour lifestyle to schoolgoing life where they were provided with a very comfortable and free life. The education system in most schools is monotonous, boring and stressful. So given a choice, no children in India would like to go to school. Keeping children genuinely interested in education is a big challenge. I think if we can put together a sheet of interesting educational activities at least one per week, that will go a long way in attracting and retaining children in education.

Regards,
Banaj

Hi everybody!

We, Renske, Anne-Wil and Eva are three dutch students of 17 and 18 years old. (Picture at our school, see below) We need to write a final people for our secondary school and have chosen a worldschool assignment. we have chosen the Vadgam assignment because we believe we have something to offer for Vadgam education. We look forward to start working. This however is only possible when we know what is there already. There have been so many posts in this subject that we are quite lost. So how far are you in the development of a school in Vadgam exactly? Because I have read at the forum that already many things have been accomplished. We nee to know where we are now, then only we can start working and thinking. Actually, most importantly, what do we have to do?

Unfortunately, we have only limited time: in 2,5 months we have to hand in our final paper! So I'm afraid we are not able to set up an entire school.. We can for example think up a curriculum, with a budget as low as possible. But to work on this we have to know how far all of you got already, this is very important. It's inefficient to do things twice and we want to make the most of it!

Regards,
Eva

Respected Benaj Roy,

I first Time Know abt the Azim Premji Foundation's.Thank you very much for provide information and contact link for the same.I will visit the same link and know how can we get help from foundation regarding available materials.

I once again very very thankful to you for posting here some good information and take interest in our project.Requesting you to pl.continues your posting here and guide us as possible as by you.We welcome your suggestion and information towards child education development in village.

Regards,

Nitin

Hi Eva and Friends
This is a community programme run by Nitin.
Once a week 3 hours and 25 kids.
He needs volunteers to assist him teaching English to the kids.
We could add more activities if possible.
will you be able to visit Vadagam and assist him?
Thanks and Regards
Indira

Hi Eva and Friends and Indira,

Thanks for posting a message,as indira mention above we are teaching english,computer basic and personality development training to kids.

Today I make a group of kids as suggested by indira.I make four group of kids.every group have a different activity in same time.just like one group learn english spelling,second is learn how to tell story,sing poem,telling story,joks,and general knowledge questions?Third group writing essay,fourth group learn computer basic.Each group have a leader so kids also develop there leadership skils.and every week they change there activites like one gropu learn english in first week they learn compuetr basic or other things from above mention activities,so I cover all things in every session.

I also like to add some more activities like drawing,sport etc...

I need some printed material for exercise of above activities,so if possible pl.send me some papers which will be helpful me to train them.

Thanking you,

Regards,

Nitin
,

Dear Indira and Nitin,

Thank you both for your comments, this will be helping us a lot. We will mostly look at the theoretical side of the subject however, since we have the most knowledge to offer about that. We will try to give you an excellent curriculum for th chilren of Vadgam.

Also, we will try to visit Vadgam, but firstly we will have to look for sponsors. Our main goal, as stated avove, is to develop the best curriculum possible for the children. We only have short time however, since we have to hand in our paper (on Vadgam education) in February. But we will make the best of it!

Regards,
Eva (Anne-Wil, Renske)

Dear Eva,Anne-Wil & Renske,

Thanks for your excellent approch to work better curriculum for vadgam village children's.we hope you will be get a sponsors to visit vadgam for nobel work.its good to know that you have hand a paper(on vadgam education) in february.

Meanwhile I like to give some childre's data who attained class room in a weekend.

There are more than 35 children's attained class room every sunday as per following.

Age No.
05 03
07 03
09 04
10 05
11 07
12 06
13 03
14 02
15 02

They all are goes in government school.we registered a non-profit organization with name "Vadgam Social and Welfare Trust".this trust like to teach them some extra knowledge than routine education systems in government schools.We like to give tham some different education than routine education in government schools which will help tham to make better future.They all are attained our class room on every sunday and learn different subject and improve there skills.

Regards,

Nitin

Dear Eva,Anne-Wil & Renske

Thaks you all for your interest in Vadagam Village.
I hope you all get sponsors to visit
Vadagam village, and share your expertise for the kids.
I'm sure it's easy for you all to plan ahead due to the
age catogory , which Nitin mention with his comment.
I wish you all best of luck and hope this will be
very good opportunity for Vadagam kids.
Regards
Indira

Hello everyone,

Here is a report of today's activity in class room.

There are 36 children's attained class room.I make a group of six children's of every group and take a writen test & personality development test of each group.I take 20marks of maths test and 10 marks of personality development test.Total 30 Mark test.

Children's interestingly participate in the exam and they are encouraging to participate such different activity than rutine school education system.

Hello Everyone,

Today we make a file for each group of children's.Children's file there worksheet in this file.it will be helpful us to make result for every group.As you know we creat a 6 group with name A to F.

Children's learn maths,english,computer,drawing,computer,personality development etc in class room every week and they prepare some documents,this file helpful than to store data what they work in weekend.

Here I attached one group photograp.pl.visit village gallery to find more group pictures.

Regards,

Nitin