Corporate name : Learning Curve Life Skills Foundation
Number of beneficiaries: 7000
Duration: One Year
Communities: Urban
Location : , Hyderabad, Telangana, India, , , Telangana, India
SDG :
4 – Quality Education
Area of work :
Urban Slum, Slum Children, Education, Children’s Education
Problem
• There are millions of children in India today who are unlikely to achieve equitable adulthood and life outcomes due to lack of overall development • While the education system focuses on intellectual development, social and emotional development in classroom practice is missing from both public and private education systems in India today • It is known that social and emotional development directly influences academic achievement and adulthood outcomes such as responsible behavior & workforce readiness • This is particularly urgent for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, who face uneven development through their lives • Teachers in low income community schools are recruited locally, and struggle with being able to engage with children and deal with issues such as aggressiveness, stress and other high-risk behaviors
Objective
• Build social-emotional skills for 8-14-year old children in under resourced schools via the approach of teacher development, providing detailed life skills curriculum, toolkits and scripted lesson plans for use in classrooms by the teachers • Develop teacher capability through regular workshops and teacher mentorship throughout the academic year • Document and evaluate the progress of teachers, children and classrooms using established tools and frameworks
Description/Summary
The solution design is based on the principle of interdependent learning between the teacher, child and the classroom environment. The program components are: 1) A structured 2 year teacher development effort built around emotional intelligence, engaging the child, mentoring mindsets, shaping attitudes and adaptability, which is delivered through a combination of 3* 2 day workshops, development plans and 4 mentor touchpoints each year. 2) Deployment of a 7 year social-emotional learning curriculum from Grade 3 to Grade 9 (48 sessions per year) by the teachers in their classrooms supported by a facilitator toolkit, scripted lesson plans for each grade, classroom tools to create engagement in the classroom and monthly support visits to each school/classroom 3) Deployment of environment building tools in the classroom (mood pockets, gratitude boards and emotion kiosks) to create emotionally safe and socially responsible classroom environments