CRP Orientation Workshop - Mysuru 2025

Background

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.

In Mysuru, the three-day techno-pedagogy workshop was conducted with 30 primary school English language teachers, select CRPs, BRPs and the DIET nodal officer in July 2024. In an effort to ensure that the possibilities offered by the audio story-based pedagogy reach teachers across the district of Mysuru, this workshop has been planned with CRPs who we believe will be able to provide the right academic support to teachers for effective use of the resources and teaching strategies in the language classroom.

Workshop Objectives

• To help CRPs experience and understand the ways in which audio stories can support language teaching-learning
• To explore the audio story repository, Kathe Khajane on the AntennaPod mobile app

Day	Time	Session	Description
Day 1	10:00 AM to 10:30 AM	Introduction	Program overview, workshop objectives, expectation setting
	10:30 AM to 11:30 AM	Reflecting on language teaching-learning	Discussion on challenges in the language classroom - what teachers share, what CRPs have observed. Understanding pedagogical leadership using Circle of Influence & Circle of Concern as a framework KK as an exploration of alternate pedagogies for the language classroom to address some of the challenges mentioned.
	11:30 PM to 12:30 PM	Immersive demo	Demo session for participants to experience digital story-based teaching process including discussion of TPR, pre-listening, during listening and post-listening activities. Discussion on activities - observations, feedback and brainstorming of other ways to use audio-stories
	12:30 PM to 1:15 PM	KK introduction and installation	Introduction to digital repository of audio resources, installation of the app on mobile, hands-on exploration
	2:00 PM to 2:45 PM	Designing activities for audio stories	Discussion on designing activities. Guidelines and BICS and CALP as framework
	2:45 to 4:30	Group activity	CRPs ideate activities for select stories in groups and present in a plenary session
Day 2	10:00 AM to 10:30 AM	Recap	Recap of day 1 activities and discussions
	10:30 AM to 11:30 AM	Understanding CRPs and their role	Activity to understand CRPs role, challenges and ways to address challenges
	11:30 AM to 1:00 PM	Implementation planning - 1	Group activity : Discuss in small groups how takeaways from the workshop can be taken to schools and teachers, what can be potential benefits of KK. Discussion on possibilities for supporting teachers. Sharing experiences from engagement in Bluru North Sharing resources and templates to help planning and preparation
	2 to 3	Implementation planning - 2	Consolidation and detailed discussion of implementation strategies for cluster meetings, school visits, and remote support
	3 to 4	Way forward	Feedback from participants, group photo, testimonial videos, CoP, etc

Resources

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