Techno-Pedagogy Workshop for Language Teachers (II) - Bengaluru North - November 2024

Program Overview

With the key objective of enriching students’ language learning experiences by leveraging the power of storytelling as a pedagogical tool along with the newer possibilities that the digital medium offers, the Department of State Educational Research and Training (DSERT) and the Colleges of Teacher Education (CTEs) across Karnataka collaborated with IT for Change to pilot the program ‘Integrating Digital Story-Based Pedagogy in Language Education’ during 2023-24. The program has been designed to aid the process of language teaching-learning and as a result, students’ educational outcomes by focusing on teachers’ professional development (TPD). In year 1, the focus was primarily on building capacities of teachers to create audio resources. Over 200 high-quality audio stories have been produced in Kannada, English, Urdu and Marathi languages and are published as Open Educational Resources for teachers across the state.

The 2024-25 phase of the program aims to focus on enabling classroom level implementation through techno-pedagogy workshops and school level support. It also aims to study the implementation of digital story-based pedagogy in classrooms in order to understand the effectiveness of the methods, successes and challenges of teachers, and identify aspects requiring improvement and redesign.

In the academic year 2024-25, IT for Change plans to collaborate with the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET), Bengaluru North to support the implementation of the program in Government Urdu Higher Primary Schools and study the role of the program in developing language competencies of students.

The planned approach is to mainly work with teachers and Cluster Resource Persons (CRPs) to help support classroom implementation in two blocks in the district. Workshops will be conducted with the teachers and CRPs where aspects related to using digital story-based pedagogy in language teaching will be discussed. This workshop will be the second of 4 in-person workshops with teachers.

Workshop Objectives

• To familiarize the teachers with the TPD program for the academic year
• To help teachers access and make use of available repositories for audio stories as Open Educational Resources (OERs) and to introduce FOSS tools for facilitating their academic tasks and processes
• To develop teachers' skills in creating and utilizing contextual digital audio stories to address students' language learning needs
• To train teachers in using multilingual, inclusive, and constructivist pedagogies in language teaching
• To introduce and encourage participation in Communities of Practice (CoPs) for peer learning, mentoring, and continuous professional development.

Agenda

	Time	Session Name	Description/Topics	Resources
Day 1	9:30 to 10:30 AM	Introduction and broad overview	1. Overview of the workshop agenda, objectives and expectations from participants 2. Brief recap of last workshop, school visits so far and our CoP work 3. Our vision for teachers
	10:30 to 11:30 AM	Kathe Khajane Implementation Experience Sharing	1. Sharing experiences, challenges & best practices 2. Brief demo by some teachers 3. Recap of TPCK - through the teachers' lens	Slide-deck for discussion on Kathe Khajane; Slide-deck on TPCK (recap from workshop I)
	11:30 to 11:45 PM	TEA BREAK
	11:45 to 12:45 PM	Story-Based Pedagogy Deep Dive (through TPCK lens)	1. Discussing TPCK related challenges and scope for growth 2. Using Kathe Khajane stories to demonstrate TPCK in action 3. Discussing pre/during/post- listening activities 4. Kathe Khajane with different devices	Slides on TPCK and Storytelling demo;
	12:45 to 1:30 PM	LUNCH
	1:30 to 2:00 PM	Kathe Khajane refresher	Mobile app demo and hands-on practice (installation, subscribing, streaming, downloading)	1. AntennaPod installation video 2. https://kathe-khajane.teacher-network.in/
	2:00 to 2:45 PM	Designing action plan for using Kathe Khajane stories	1. Connecting Kathe Khajane stories to textbook lessons 2. Critically discussing KK content – What is needed? Where is it lacking? 3. What kind of stories do we need for the remaining term?
	2:45 to 3:15 PM	Story Selection and Narration Guidelines	1. Story selection guidelines 2. Story narration guidelines and practice	Slide-deck on story selection guidelines; Handout on story narration and recording guidelines
	3:15 to 3:30 PM	Recording guidelines (Tape-a-talk app)	Installation, instructions, usage guidelines
Day 2	9:30 to 10:00 AM	Recap and Agenda for the day	1. Recap of Day 1 2. Agenda for the day 3. Listening to some recorded stories	Stories recorded by participants
	10:00 to 11:30 AM	Story recording process and developing action plan/ activities for recorded stories	In parallel: 1. Recording of stories 2. Developing action plan for the coming months
	11:30 to 11:45 AM	TEA BREAK
	11:45 AM to 12:45 PM	Participants presentation	Providing feedback on the stories recorded by participants, as well as the action plans
	12:45 to 1:30 PM	LUNCH
	1:30 to 2:30 PM	CoP-based Engagement	Discussions on: 1. Expectations of teachers for the CoP group 2. Setting expectations for engagement (thumbs up, emoji, text responses, voice notes)
	2:30 to 3:00 PM	Exploring some tech tools and resources	1. Antenna Pod - exploring some advanced features – sharing sorting, bookmarks, changing pace/ speed 2. Introducing other tech tools that might be useful
	3:00 to 3:30	Feedback and the way forward	1. Recap and way forward 2. Feedback form to be filled by participants 3. Agenda for upcoming Online Session

Resources