Techno-Pedagogy Workshop for CRPs - Bengaluru North - August 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 Cluster Resource Persons (CRPs) who can support classroom implementation in two blocks in the district. Workshops will be conducted with the CRPs and teachers where aspects related to using digital story-based pedagogy in language teaching will be discussed.

Workshop Objectives

• To familiarize the CRPs with the TPD program for the academic year
• To support the DIET in building CRPs’ capacities for mentoring, supervising and facilitating teachers to use multilingual, inclusive and constructivist pedagogies in language teaching
• To help CRPs access and make use of available resource repositories
• To help CRPs familiarize themselves with the use of FOSS tools for facilitating their academic and administrative tasks and processes.

Agenda

	Time	Session Name	Description/Topics	Resources
Day 1	10:00 to 10:45 AM	Ice breaking Activity and Opening session	Welcome and sharing the objectives of the workshop (agenda, setting expectations)
	10:45 to 11:30 AM	Familiarization with our programs	1. Developing a broader understanding of the program; 2. Brief recap of work done in KLEAP and TIEE programs	Slide-deck, video snippets
	11:30 to 11:45 AM	TEA BREAK
	11:45 AM to 12:30 PM	Participant Questionnaire	Participants are to fill the google form shared	Google Form for Participants
	12:30 to 1:30 PM	LUNCH
	1:30 to 1:45 PM	Energiser Activities	Activities based on Linguist Stephen Krashen's Hypotheses	Slide-deck for Activity on Input Hypothesis; Slides on Krashen's Hypotheses
	1:45 to 2:30 PM	Foundational Literacy and Approaches to teaching Language	1. Objectives related to language learning - challenges faced in meeting these objectives; 2. Myths and beliefs related to language teaching	Video on Myths related to Language Learning
	2:30 to 3:45 PM	Immersive Demo of Storytelling as pedagogy using audio resources	1. Immersive demo session including TPR, pre-listening, during and post-listening activities; 2. Discussion on story-based pedagogy (for overall literacy and language skills), why techno-pedagogy is essential	Audio-story - A Cloud of Trash; and Session Plan; Story Elements Handout; Slides on Storytelling as Pedagogy and Techno-pedagogy; Storyweaver story repository;
	3:45 to 4:45 PM	Kathe Khajane Exploration	Installation and hands-on exploration of the app
	4:45 to 5:00 PM	Wrap up for the day	1. Summing up the day, 2. Collecting Feedback, 3. Sharing instructions for the next day
Day 2	10:00 to 11:00 AM	Introduction to inclusive and equitable classroom practices	1. Activity based engagement 2. Exploring Universal Design for Learning (UDL)	Handout on UDL (English); Handout on UDL (Kannada); Handout on UDL (Urdu)
	11:00 to 11:30	Foundational Numeracy and Learning Outcomes	Discussion on shared reading
	11:30 to 11:45 AM	TEA BREAK
	11:45 AM to 12:30 PM	Subject-wise discussion on Learning Outcomes	1. Discussion on Learning Outcomes 2. Hands-on activity (subject-wise)
	12:30 to 1:30	LUNCH
	1:30 to 2:30 PM	Learning Outcomes (continued)	Continuing the discussion/ preparation in groups
	2:30 to 3:15 PM	Group Presentations	Short presentations followed by open discussion on demo activities, observations, feedback
	3:15 to 4:30 PM	Group discussion on Beliefs and Practices	Discussion on the different beliefs and practices that teachers hold
	4:30 to 5:00 PM	Wrap up for the day	1. Summing up the day, 2. Collecting Feedback, 3. Sharing instructions for the next day
Day 3	10:00 to 10:30 AM	Energiser Activities	Activities based on communication, collaboration and team work
	10:30 to 11:30 AM	Brainstorming ideas for better collaboration	1. Discussion on ways to cascade knowledge (FLN, LOs) 2. Brainstorming strategies for sustaining and coordinating Communities of Practice (COPs)
	11:30 to 11:45 AM	TEA BREAK
	11:45 to 1:00 PM	Planning for the CoP: Academic/ Administrative needs and support required	Discussions on: 1. Academic Needs/Support required by teachers; 2. Administrative Needs/Support required 3. Creation of a COP plan
	1:00 to 1:45 PM	LUNCH
	1:45 to 4:50 PM	Technology basics for classroom teaching and school management (DL)	1. Google Form 2. DATA collection 3. Spreadsheets 4. Analysing and reporting 5. Announce online session as follow up
	4:50 to 5:00 PM	Reflections & Feedback	Brief summing up and discussion on way forward, group photo	Feedback form