Teacher Treasure Hunt

The Teacher Foundation, Mysore had organized a Saturday forum called 'Treasure Hunt for Teachers' on December 13th. The objective of the forum was to introduce the teachers to our Teacher Resource Centre (TRC). Kavita, the centre coordinator conducted the forum.

Our TRC has been functional for over an year. Unfortunately not many teachers have made use of it. Hence we planned this saturday forum as a number of learning centres where teachers could explore the variety of resources that our TRC had to offer. The Saturday Forum was for Maths, Science and English teachers. Kavita briefly talked about TTF and the objective of Saturday forum. She gave an idea of all the centres available for teachers. Each centre had a small task that the teachers were expected to complete. Kavita told them that they would not be able to go to all the centres for the lack of time. The teachers had 15 minutes at each centre.

The teachers handled multiple resources at the centres like How to make and use visual aids, word and meaning games, strategy games, science activities, 100 ideas, classroom management, thinking with fairy tales and fantasy.

The teachers played the games, browsed the websites and went through the books. They came up with ideas about using these resources in their classrooms. Kavita conducted a whole group discussion in last 20 minutes. Teachers shared their ideas about the learning centres.

There was a discussion about teachers of the same school taking turns to come to the TRC. The teachers suggested that TTF should organize the saturday forums for a particular subject, ask teachers to bring the material and create the activities for classroom use. That way the learning at the TRC can be directly translated to the classroom.

Overall the teachers were very enthusiastic about the learning centres. TTF, Mysore hopes to conduct more such Saturday forums over the coming months to bring more and more teachers to TRC.

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