I visited C.N. Government School for my Practicum. Finding the place was a small adventure by itself, since the auto rickshaw driver had never heard of Chandra Nagar. However, I located the school by asking local folks.
I sat in the Nalli Kalli room, where a teacher called Padmaja was running the show. I found the class full of energy. There were at least 40 children, but they were all very engaged. Some were studying in small groups, some were helped by the teacher, some were running around, but the cheer level in the class was very high. Padmaja mentioned that the children were in class 1-3, and that they studied in student-led groups or with the help of the teacher. The lessons were divided into distinct milestones, and the children moved from one milestone to another. There were no formal assessments for the class, and the milestones served as assessment levels. Padmaja herself seemed very engaged with the children, and was visibly excited showing the competence levels of the children, showing that even grade 1 and 2 children could read long passages of Kannada. She also got the children to sing and perform and participated in the songs herself with full enthusiasm. Her style varied from being authoritarian to friendly to entertaining, and the children were fully with her. Her style seemed like that of a strict parent, where the children knew that the parent was strict but also loving.
The other classes seemed a little like any other class in "normal" schools. The higher class was very quietly doing their work in notebooks. There was no teacher in the class and I heard the same report from other students who went to the government school on other days - there was no teacher even on those days.
I sat in the Nalli Kalli room, where a teacher called Padmaja was running the show. I found the class full of energy. There were at least 40 children, but they were all very engaged. Some were studying in small groups, some were helped by the teacher, some were running around, but the cheer level in the class was very high. Padmaja mentioned that the children were in class 1-3, and that they studied in student-led groups or with the help of the teacher. The lessons were divided into distinct milestones, and the children moved from one milestone to another. There were no formal assessments for the class, and the milestones served as assessment levels. Padmaja herself seemed very engaged with the children, and was visibly excited showing the competence levels of the children, showing that even grade 1 and 2 children could read long passages of Kannada. She also got the children to sing and perform and participated in the songs herself with full enthusiasm. Her style varied from being authoritarian to friendly to entertaining, and the children were fully with her. Her style seemed like that of a strict parent, where the children knew that the parent was strict but also loving.
The other classes seemed a little like any other class in "normal" schools. The higher class was very quietly doing their work in notebooks. There was no teacher in the class and I heard the same report from other students who went to the government school on other days - there was no teacher even on those days.
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