Event Report:
TEACHER CHANGE MAKER SUMMIT 27th Oct 2016 AUDITORIUM FEROZE GANDHI DEGREE COLLEGE, RAEBARELI
STiR Education- A brief: STIR Education has created a model that empowers teachers to fundamentally re-imagine their roles in leading change in their classrooms, schools and the wider education system. STIR Education sees teachers as the solution and believes that motivated teachers are the key to improving students learning outcomes. The program starts with the ‘bright spots’ – identifying teachers who have even a small, initial spark of commitment and innovation – and use recognition, peer influence, soft incentives, certification, (offline) social networking and cross-sector partnerships to bring about a teacher-led movement for change within the existing system. The program started in Uttar Pradesh with common aim & objective of State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) UP to improve the children learning-outcome.
CONCEPT: The organization has created its reach to 7 districts (Lucknow, Raebareli, Unnao, Varanasi, Jaunpur, Faizabad and Kanpur Nagar) of Uttar Pradesh during its three different Cohorts. In Raebareli, the program started in 39 Nyay Panchayats across 6 blocks- Amavan, Dalmau, Harchandrapur, Lalganj, Rahi, and Santav in late 2014 with 39 Education leaders and 1000+ Teachers. The summit is an annual celebration of association for every network teacher, education leader with the SCERT-STiR Full Model Programme. This event also gives us a chance to recognize the efforts of all the district and block officials who have enabled the smooth functioning and delivery of the SCERT-STiR Program. The network teachers are also certified by Roehampton University, London for their work as Implementor, Influencer, and Teacher Changemaker over the course of the Programme. Roehampton University, London, an internationally acclaimed university for its work on teachers training has partnered with STiR Education for teachers certification in Uttar Pradesh.
OBJECTIVE: The agenda of the summit was:
To honor, 1 teacher from every network whose innovation was adjudged as the best innovation by the teachers of their respective nyay panchayats with Roehampton University’s Innovator’s certificate To award Influencer, Implementor and Teacher Changemaker certificates to network teachers who have done commendable work in their 1st year of the program and who also satisfy the minimum attendance and portfolio fulfillment criteria laid down by in the program.
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To award the “Bronze Level Certification” to all the Education Leaders who have done good work and have maintained the required level of attendance and delivery in all their network meetings. To provide a platform to “Innovative” Teachers to showcase their “Micro-innovations” during the event and to share them with other teachers.
EVENT: Arrival and welcome The guests started arriving at the venue at the given time at 9:30am. Separate registration counters for each block were laid down and the process was managed very effectively by K. Shweta, Devanshi, Shubhodeep and Nitish (STiR Team) with utmost efficiency, without any delay or waiting time. The event started off with a warm welcome to all the guests by Gunjjan Sharma (Program Manager, Raebareli) on behalf of STiR Education team who laid down the agenda for the day.
Introduction to the new term and way ahead Mr. Ashish Kumar Sharma, (Associate Head –U.P. Government Programs) then took over podium to take the audience through a journey of STiR in last 4 years. Later, zeroing in on Raebareli district and the program, a block-wise comparative analysis of attendance, gender ratio, and term wise performance of different networks was presented to provide the teachers an insight of how their individual efforts contribute to the larger goal of improving the student’s learning outcomes. This helped us in aligning the Teachers to the larger objective of the program. Then the program of the upcoming term was introduced explaining the idea behind having “Classroom Culture Practices” as a combined challenge, with a brief on the expectations from the upcoming term aimed at motivating the teachers to increase their participation in the upcoming term with a new vigour.
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Experience Sharing and Feedback Session
With the pace set for the day, it was time to give an opportunity to the invited some of our teachers and education leaders to share their stories and experiences. To facilitate this, all the teachers and education leaders were grouped according to their blocks and then were asked to discuss their experiences within the groups and make a list of all the sweet and sour moments of their journey’s as Teacher Changemakers.
Each group was then asked to select one representative who will come on the stage and share the group’s discussion points/experiences with the audience. We had 7 people who shared their experiences with us, all of them echoing the values we aim to instil in our teachers. Some spoke about their challenges as education leaders where as others spoke about their experiences while working in groups and micro-innovating or implementing the selected ideas. All the representatives had very interesting points to share, (some of them included in the learning section). This gave us a chance to understand the thought process of the teachers as well as assess the extent of the reach of the philosophy we are trying to inculcate in our teachers. Certification Ceremony With a healthy discussion and sharing of experiences over, the atmosphere was filled with positive energy, it was time for the certification ceremony. Given the shortage of time at the hand of the chief guest as well as the large number of teachers to be certified it was imperative that the process of arrival on the stage and the certification be smooth. To enable that we did a dry run with all the teachers coming on stage to practice the process of arrival on the stage and the exit. It was
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amazing to see the teacher’s cooperating so well and practicing in an organised manner with the education leaders displaying an array of leadership qualities. The Chief Guest of the day was DIET Principal, Raebareli – Mrs. Rekha Diwakar who graciously agreed to be there for the event despite having various prior commitments. Mr Manish Thapa then announced the arrival of the Chief Guest, welcoming here on the stage, along with DIET DRGs Mr Abhivek Shrivastav and Mr Ashutosh Tiwari. Devanshi Jain (STIR Team) welcomed the guests with a bouquet.
After the certificates were handed over to all the teachers all the ABRCs were invited on the stage and were given special letters of appreciation for the supported rendered by them to ensure the successful running of the program in their respective blocks. Mrs Rekha Diwakar then congratulated all the certified teachers for the commendable performance in the program. She also congratulated STIR for completing 2 yrs in the district and successfully managing 2000+ teachers. Speaking about the importance of the work being done by STIR to improve the learning outcome of the students and said “the coming term is very important for teachers as it deals with causing a positive change in the class room environment to facilitate better learning amongst the students and to generate and sustain interest towards learning new things. MICRO INNOVATION DISPLAY As one of the main objectives of the event was to provide a platform to all the innovative teachers to showcase their innovation and share their learnings; the chief guest then proceeded to the front of the auditorium where teachers from Amavan, Lalganj and Satanv blocks had put stalls to share their Micro Innovations. She was joined by all the teachers who in to see and discuss the micro innovations at the stalls.
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AMAVAN
DALMAU
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SANTAV
RAHI
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HARCHANDRAPUR
LALGANJ
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