Objective

  • Nurture and inculcate interest and intensive comprehension in science and technology among the young students by means of interactive teaching, introducing the applications of scientific thinking, creating social awareness and improving the attitudes on learning
  • Empower students to identify their field of interest, future stream of study, and selection of a career path.
  • Involving teachers on such effective teaching and learning strategies

Background

  • NITCAA Trivandrum chapter’s capability to use its vast expertise, resources, and techno-managerial
    capabilities to work as a change agent and catalyst.
  • NITCAA Trivandrum can pool appropriate resource persons to meet the objectives of this project.
  • This project is taken- up as a part of a larger program by name NITCAA Sustainable Living Project.
  •  NITCAA Trivandrum attempts to supplement in strengthening the teaching and learning capability in schools

Deliverables

  • Team of students with effective learning skills, awareness and capability for identifying their strength t to
    pursue furthers studies and knowledge sharing
  • Typical Training modules and kits for replication of this project
  • Inspiration to teachers for betterment of teaching strategies to meet the needs of students with varying
    abilities, motivation and interests
  • Inputs to design teaching policies that could foster the implementation of innovative teaching strategies.
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Stakeholders

  • Students
  • Teachers
  • Principal
  • PTA
  • School Management
  • School Science Club 
  • NITCAA Trivandrum Governing council

Methodology

  • Meeting with GC Members and resource persons
  • Finalization and approval of Project Schedule
  • Preparation of syllabus & reading materials
  • Preparation of Project flier
  • School visits and finalization of venue
  • Procurement of Training Kits
  • Execution of Project
  • Handholding the teachers and students
  • Review and replications with improvements
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Resource Requirements

  • 10 Schools to be identified.
  • Students of 8 th standard in each school to be identified by the respective school. Targeting a batch of 25
    students from different batches/divisions
  • 10 classes to be conducted in the academic year (June to March)
  • 1.5 hours per class (total 15 hours)/ 2 classes per day
  • 5 trips per school
  • Timings to be fixed by the school management.
  • Reading Material and flier (cover to be digital printed/ rest offset printed)
  • Classes to be conducted by Dr C.P. Aravindakshan with the help of his associates in the first phase
  • Trainers to be trained and introduced at a later stage
  • Kits for trainers (10 kits)
  • Each kit with 10 essential experiments
  • Approximate cost of each kit to be 200 to 300 Rs
  • Snacks
  • Transport

Operations & Support

  • NITCAA Trivandrum GC to contact and correspond with the school management, fixup venue, arrange for kits, brochures, reading materials, transport, snacks, feedback
  • Video recording, photographs of the sessions
  • Opening and valedictory functions
  • Obtain feed back from: School, Teachers, student, PTA, Parents

Review

Conduct interim-reviews and end of project review

Prepared by:

Molly Thomas

A.M. Narayanan

Sudheendran. M