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concepts we used foam sheets bought
from other town and also used adhesive
paper for coloring.
Concept of Little Teacher :
As majority of the kids have low
rigour in academics, it would be extremely
difficult for the teacher to reach out to
every student explaining their doubts. So
we introduced this model of Little teacher
where every high rigour student will be
explaining and teaching subject content to
their friends who are academically poor.
This works like a pro because peer
sharing would be fun.
Teacher Student Mentoring :
We believe that "Teachers encourage
minds to think, hands to create and hearts
to Love" To boost the morale of the
students we allotted 5 students to a single
teacher so that these students will be
mentored by the teacher and the gap
between them will be removed which
intern helps the students to ask questions
and get clear explanation from their
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mentoring teacher. Extra classes were
taken by the teachers to revise the conceps
and clear off their doubts. Snacks were
given to the student during the extra
classes.
Parent Counseling sessions:
Initially it was very tough to
organize counseling sessions to the
parents because of the non-availability of
the parents as majority of them are daily
wage labors. Somehow after much
struggle from the teachers end to bring
parents became possible through Math Lab
exhibition which built a pressure on
parents by the students for their presence.
Teaching through technology :
Visual learning helps for the long
term memory of the student. The problem
of Re-iteration was also an issue especially
keeping our 10 graders in mind. We
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