REACH OUT!

The main vision of Katha is to make teachers imaginative, fun loving, curious, creative, capable of critical thinking, competent, confident and committed, caring, culture-conscious and cooperative. Katha basically aims at its Teachers Training Workshop to provide sound and relevant curricula that emphasizes lifelong learning skills and entrepreneurship in students, knowing how to research and create quality teaching material, constant striving for interesting and creative pedagogy, invoking the interest of the parents, the family and the community, their involvement and active participation. The purpose of this Teacher Training Workshop is to help teachers to rededicate themselves to the idea of excellence and creativity that are the bedrock of education. The objective this training is to assist teachers to find ways to turn the individual dreams and aspirations of their students into reality, to lead them towards the understanding of leadership and entrepreneurship, and developing in them ability of conflict resolution and mediation so as to pass these necessary skills on to their students. Through our rich experience in the field and many institutions contacting us for the taining programmes we have replicated our modules and categorized the same into three levels:

I. Basic II. Intermediate III. Advanced

I. Basic Course:-- Teacher is the link between the text and students. Each teacher is capable of converting the black and white text of the books to more creative and interesting material through his own creative expression and use of story. This phase focuses on developing the inherent strength of the individual in the role of the teacher, to look at the teacher as a performer. An introduction to Teaching Learning material is given at this stage along with the effective utilisation of available resources, which can supplement the teacher's strengths. Development of Teaching Learning material is an intense process, which starts from questioning the very need for education. If this step is worked out properly in detail then the follow up become simpler automatically. These course aims at instilling in the trainers the philosophy of child centred education-developing the curriculum and syllabus in lieu with the needs of the target population. II. Intermediate course:-- This level is based on the alternative teaching styles. Various creative, interactive pedagogies are shared with hands on experience for the participants. Delhi based participants will be exposed to the teaching methodologies being implemented in our hub-centre at Govindpuri . Life skill development forms an integral part of this phase III. Advanced course:-- Caters to all the senses, giving food for thought, charging up the trainers to create a snow ball effect in return. Completely taking them by surprise this phase attempts to look at the writings, works, experiments in the field of education-theme based injected modules and co-operatives and evaluation ruberics, putting systems into place will become much simpler after this!