STF Cascade District Workshops 2013-14

=District Cascade STF Workshops=

The Subject Teacher Forum district training programme will begin in the following districts in the month of November.

District-wise details of schools and number of batches are available here.

=Agenda and focus areas for the District Cascade Workshops= In the previous two years, teachers have been introduced to the possibilities of integrating ICTs into their working. The programme introduced them to basics of computer literacy, use of emails and internet to interact with each other on mailing lists. Teachers were also trained in various educational tools like Freemind, Geogebra, KGeography, KStars, KTurtle, Marble, PhET, STEP and Stellarium. Many teachers have been using these tools to create learning resources for themselves and for classrooms.

In this year, the programme will focus on the following:
 * 1) Extend the computer literacy skills for teachers
 * 2) Introduce the learning possibilities from using the Internet
 * 3) Use emails, subject mailing forums and discussion forums to communicate
 * 4) Build digital resource libraries
 * 5) Participate in the Karnataka Open Educational Resources and Contribute

=Links for the Cascade District Workshops =
 * 1)  Science District Cascade Workshops
 * 2)  Mathematics District Cascade Workshops
 * 3)  Social Science District Cascade Workshops
 * 4)  Head Teacher District Cascade Workshops

= Activities before the workshop =
 * 1) Lab readiness checklist The DIET/ CTE Nodal Officer and RP should ensure internet availability, with minimum 3 Mbps connection and enough computers to allow 1:1 computer:teacher ratio. In addition, the training labs should have Ubuntu installed on them.
 * 2) To allow for adequate practice, the batch size should be kept to 20.  The number of teachers to be trained and number of batches needed is available here.
 * 3) DIET/ CTE Nodal Officer to enter the cascade training timetable information.  Please click here to enter information about the District workshop schedule for STF 2013-14 and enter the cascade schedule.

= Activities during and after the workshop =
 * 1) Ensuring participant information form is filled by all participants.
 * 2) Ensuring participants are accessing email and sending to the Subject Teacher Forum mailing list.
 * 3) DIET/ CTE Nodal Officer to enter the DIET feedback from the workshop.  Please click here to view the form.
 * 4) You can contact the [MAILTO:koer@karnatakaeducation.org.in ITfC team] for support mail and phone for any support during the training.