STF Cascade District Workshops 2013-14

Cascade District STF Workshops

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

Bangalore Division	Bangalore North	Bangalore South	Chikkballapur	Chitradurga	Shimoga
Belgaum Division	Bagalkote	Belgaum	Chikkodi	Dharwad	Sirsi	Uttara Kannada
Gulbarga Division	Koppala	Raichur	Yadagiri
Mysore Division	Chikmagalur	Dakshina Kannada	Hassan	Mandya	Udupi

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

Curriculum and focus areas for the Cascade District 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. Extending the computer literacy skills for teachers
2. Introduce the learning possibilities from using the Internet
3. Using emails and email forums to communicate
4. Building digital resource libraries
5. Participate and contribute to the Karnataka Open Educational Resources.

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

Preparatory steps common to all subjects

1. Availability of internet and adequate number of computers is very important for this cascade training. The RPs and DIET Nodal Officer should ensure internet availability, with minimum 3 Mbps connection and enough computers to allow 1:1 computer:teacher ratio. In addition, the DIET 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 batched needed is available here.
3. Schedule - Calculate the number of batches and plan / prepare schedule with the DIET/CTE Nodal Officer
4. DIET/CTE Nodal Officer - Click here to enter information about the District workshop schedule for STF 2013-14

Preparations for the Cascade District Workshops. During Workshop

1. The STF Cascade page has the suggested Workshop agenda and the handouts required.
2. Please ask participants to enter the participant information on DAY1 and participant feeback on Day5
3. Please edit your district cascade page and upload your photos / videos
4. You can contact the ITfC team for support mail and phone