5. Aflatoun - Social and Financial Education (Mel Jol) Facilitator: Mr. Anil Saini MelJol has pioneered the Aflatoun - social and financial education programme in the country. It’s the only programme balancing social and financial education so far, where children are the major stakeholders. MelJol as an organization from the start has been using Child centred approach. MelJol has learned that Active learning methodology is important not only for children but also for the teachers, facilitators as a school cannot be a happy place unless every stakeholder has some share in the creation and maintenance of that happiness. The child-friendly methodology uses sensitization games and activities such as role play, discussions, case study presentations, audio-visual inputs, fact finding, interactions, opinion polls, or interviews conducted by the children.
Panel Discussion: Evidence based education innovations – Bridging the gap between academia and industry Before the panel discussion, two 6th grade students from a Marathi medium MCGM school and their teacher Ms. Pramodini Parab addressed the audience. They spoke about a new project initiated in their school called the School Excellence Project which involved activity based learning. The students in the class learn through worksheets and activity cards which are divided into four categories – teacher supported, partly teacher supported, peer supported and individual. There is hardly any homework given to students as all the activities are completed in the classroom itself and they include drama, craft, etc. which help in the overall personality development of students as well. The panelists for the session were then called upon the stage and the panel discussion started with the moderator of the session – Ms. Kamini Kapadia – quoting the classic proverb that if you give a person a fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. Thus
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