1. Welcome
Presentation by
State Academic Coordinator
NCSC-Maharashta
State Academic Coordinator
Kishor Sawant
NYASS TRUST, Dombivli
2. Key points in Academic
work
• Resource material generation
• Identifying State Resource Persons
• Cluster level Resource person’s orientation
Workshop
• TTW-Teacher Training Workshop
• Evaluation-Identify, Orient, Process
3. Resource generation
• Resource persons
• Regional Activity guide
• Modules of workshops
• Enlist Institutes
• Enlist Laboratories
• Press-Articles, News coverage
We prepare regional activity guide and mini-activity guide for
Teacher’s training workshops
4. Identifying State Resource
Persons
• Personal contacts
• Help of present resource persons
• Help of District Coordinators
• Academicians, Govt Departments,
NGOs
For a new theme, we organize meeting of potential
resource persons in March
5. Cluster Level Orientation
Workshops
• We follow NCSTC module
• Stress on Interactive session
• Documentation of suggested Projects
• 1 DC, 1 AC and 1 resource person= 3
• 12 districts x 3 = 36
• Every year change the venue
• We involve Ex-participants as Resource Persons
Module, Participants, interactive session is important for the
whole year
6. Teacher Training Workshops
• Instructed that TTW should be Before 15
July.
• Modules should be followed.
• Prepare mini-activity guide to distribute.
• We involve Ex-participants as resource
persons.
From this year, we have given a target of minimum
three TTW in district.
7. Evaluation…
Identifying evaluators
• Personal contacts.
• Help of present resource persons.
• Recommendations from District Coordinators.
• Representation from maximum districts.
• Total 18/20; five experienced other new.
We have kept two evaluators (who have taken part in National workshop for
Evaluators 2005 ) common every year so orientation is easy within them
8. Evaluation….
Orientation of evaluators
• Choose best evaluators from last year team.
• Material: Letters-Criteria, trends Activity.
guide, Last years best projects etc.
• Make two chief Evaluators.
• Use them for orientation Meetings
• Give them responsibility of coordination and
final decision to reduce errors.
9. Evaluation- Process
• Two steps after district level
• Orientation before CSC by letters
and meet
• One on basis of written project
• Next----State Level
• Assessment sheets- regional & state
10. Mentoring & improvisation
• Assessment sheets for both levels
• Not only objective and gradation
• Descriptive and suggesting improvements.
• Attach sheets to “all” Projects.
• Follow up of suggestions
• Keeping Weightage for improvements.
Descriptive assessment sheet is proved to improve quality
and impart transparency in process
11. Monitoring of activities
• State level Academic committee
• Delegate three districts to every
member
• Monitoring of TTW, Evaluation,
Observer
• Assessment sheet
12. Observations & suggestions
• Importance of AC at district level is
not there
• District ACs have to be oriented
• Roles & Responsibilities should be
cleared in this workshop
