Sikshana Report

8/12/2019 Sikshana Report

1/30

PROJECT REPORT on SIKSHANA

FOUNDATION

BY

Ayush Agarwal

Sunny Agarwal

Varun Kothari

Grisha Wadhawa

Runa Das

Adrito Sanyal

Vaishnavi


2/30

Preface

There is a famous saying education is to mind what exercise is to health.

The child is weak, helpless and ignorant at birth. But he gradually grows and develops. He

acquires knowledge and skills. He realizes thoughts into actions and satisfies his needs. He

changes his behavior according to his environment. This is the result of his learning and

maturation.Learning is the modification of behavior. Thus education is the process by which the

knowledge, character and behavior of an individual are formed and modified. One's conduct and

behavior are changed and refined according to the desired standard of the society. This is the

result of education. As a part of the We Care program, a three week internship at Sikshana

foundation was an extremely enriching experience. Sikshana Foundation is a social enterprise

(NGO), started in the year 2002 with a vision to provide quality education for every child

studying in government schools.The organization believes that education is an essential basis of

good life. A man becomes a human being in the real sense when he is transformed from

primarily an animal being into a human being.In short, education is an essential concomitant ofall human societies. "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul", says

Addison. This dissertation tries to identify the effects of Sikshana programs and how their

initiatives have helped children and society at large. Some initiatives which can give the NGO

more visibility have also been discussed.There may be some scope for improvement but serious

efforts have been put into to get the best results.


3/30

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

On the very outset of this report, we would like to extend our sincere & heartfelt obligation

towards all the personages who have helped us in this endeavor. Without their active guidance,

help, cooperation & encouragement, it would have been impossible to complete this report.We are ineffably indebted to our organization mentor, Ms.Smitha for her conscientious guidance

and encouragement to accomplish this assignment.

We are extremely thankful to our faculty for their valuable guidance and support on completion

of this project.

We extend our gratitude to Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Bangalore, for

giving us this opportunity.

At last but not least gratitude goes to all our friends who directly or indirectly helped us to

complete this project report.

Any omission in this brief acknowledgement does not mean lack of gratitude.


4/30

Executive Summary

The project at Sikshana Foundation is mainly intended to come up with initiatives to increase the

visibility of Sikshana foundation and designing of survey questionnaires to understand the

effectiveness of Sikshana programs in schools. The surveys have been designed to understandthe perceptions of teachers, headmasters, SDMC and Shala Hitaishis. The various initiatives

planned to increase the vogue of Sikshana were as below.

Social Media Platform: Increasing the visibility of Sikshana Foundation on social media

by having more engaging activities on the social media page.

Celebrating the International Mother-Tongue Day at various Sikshana schools and

planning of a final event at Bangalore, for winners of various locations.

Making of videos to emphasise the importance of education and highlighting the work

Sikshana was doing in empowering the Government schools and association of the video

to social media.

The visit to schools gave an insight into the implementation of the Sikshana programs and the

impact of those programs on school children, in a spectacular manner. The interactions with the

mentors, Shala Hitaishis and few parents gave a clear view of the needs of children and how well

Sikshana has been serving them. This report includes some outcomes of the interactions and the

implementation of International Mother Tongue Day on 21st Feb at Hoskote schools.

The report also includes few recommendations which can be implemented as Sikshana programs

in the future for the betterment of students.

Chapter 1Introduction & Project Methodology

1.1 Problem Identification

Fund utilization of SDMC

Level of Kannada fluency is low

Parents are not motivated to send students to school

Career break and dropout rate is high

Low visibility of Sikshana foundation

1.2 Project Objective

To understand the effectiveness of Sikshana programme

To understand the point of view of Parents, HM, Teachers , Mentors and SDMC

To increase awareness of Sikshana foundation using social media platform

To encourage Kannada language creating a road map for Language Day


5/30

1.3 Project Methodology

1.4 Primary Target

Sikshana has been involved with various programs to improve the quality of learning:

o Programs that improve and track learning levels: Reading program

o Provide resources that improve learning levels: providing unlimited writing

sheets, Diaries provided to every child to track their learning process, vocabulary

building dictionaries.

o Mentoring and monitoring.

o Programs to encourage children to learn and perform better in academics: Star

badges, Delhi trip.

The surveys were designed to assess the effectiveness of Sikshanas program based on 5 factors

namely Awareness, Impact, Feedback, Information, Performance.


6/30

The survey was targeted to Teachers, Headmasters, SDMC and Mentors to gauge this

effectiveness based on their feedback.

1.5 Scope of the Project:

Includes:

Survey questions to understand the point of view of Parents, HM, Teachers , Mentors and

SDMC

Preparation of complete event plan for celebration of 21st February as International

mother-tongue day in Sikshana schools

Preparation of a road map for increasing visibility on social media - a marketing

perspective

Preparation of Career counseling day road map.

Does not include:

Actual execution of the survey

Implementation of the event of 21st February as International mother-tongue day in

Sikshana schools

Actual implementation of Career counseling day

Continuation of social media marketing after the completion of We-Care programme

1.6 Services Offered

SurveyForming a questionnaire to be circulated to the parents, teachers,headmasters, mentors and School Development and Monitoring Committee (SDMC).

21st

event plan21stFebruary, being International Mother Tongue Day, an event was

conducted across Sikshana schools to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural

diversity.

Social mediaincreasing visibility of the foundation through online portals and

making people aware about the work Sikshana is doing.

Creation of videosto involve more and more people and let them know about the

organization.

Campus visitsto spread awareness about the various Sikshana programs.

1.7 Service Delivery Mechanism designed

Social mediaFacebook and YouTube

School visitsto understand the difference between Sikshana and non Sikshana schools

and suggest further improvements required for effective implementation of programs


7/30

Interaction with mentors - to get their opinions on how effectively the Sikshana programs

are implemented in the schools.

Interaction with headmasters and teachersto get their opinions on the current scenario

of education in the schools.

Interaction with parents to know their awareness levels and the constraints they face in

sending their children to school.

Meeting with our guides in the organization to know about the functioning of the

organization and a roadmap for the tasks to be done.

1.8 Challenges faced by Sikshana:

One of the problems they face is the coordination amongst the village schools and the

urban schools. The designed curriculum may be the same but they are not carried out in

the same manner. As a result the performance of students gets affected.

The parents are hardly aware of the necessity of education of their children. So often

they withdraw their children from school after primary school.

Another challenge faced by the organization is the communication gap between the

mentors and the teachers of the schools. Due to this problem many a times it becomes

quite difficult to maintain the curriculum.

Chapter 2Surveys

2.1 What

One of the most important tasks assigned to us in this internship was to design a survey to

evaluate the effectiveness and awareness of the Sikshana programs. A questionnaire was formed,

seeking responses from the respondents. Questionnaires have advantages over some other types

ofsurveys in that they are cheap, do not require as much effort from the questioner as verbal ortelephone surveys, and often have standardized answers that make it simple to compile data. The

questionnaire had questions both open ended as well as close ended.

2.2 Target Audience:-

Parents

Teachers Headmasters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_surveyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_survey


8/30

Mentors

SDMC

Shala Hitaishis

2.3 How

The survey was drafted after going through the Dalbergs Report and the Annual Report ofSikshana. By going through these reports we got an idea about Sikshanas programs and also

how the questionnaire needs to be framed using the necessary parameters.

2.4 Why

The survey for parents, teachers, headmasters, mentors and SDMC was designed to evaluate the

effectiveness of the Sikshana programs.The survey for Shala Hitaishis was designed to evaluate the awareness of the Sikshana programs.

The main objective of the survey was to understand the gap between reality and expectations

from the Sikshana programs and to take measures to improve upon the same.The survey designed by the marketing team was passed on to the analytics team for further

analysis and interpretation so that they could test it on a sample data and after interpreting their

results they could execute the surveys to target audience mentioned above.

Chapter 3MediaSocial Media & Broadcast Media

Social Media

Current Scenario

Sikshana has taken up several initiatives spanning across various schools and the programme isbenefiting 1.8 lakh students. For any social change to be more successful in its mission and

purpose it should involve and make the common man aware. It should inspire people to be a partof the bigger change.

Currently the social presence for Sikshana is low so the requirement for the NGO is to increaseits visibility which will help make people aware of various initiatives and also attract volunteers.

Purpose


9/30

One of the emerging tools for effective promotions is the Social media marketing. Our team

worked on a plan for promoting their Facebook page. For this we came up with various Stories,

videos and updates that could help Sikshana connect with people over the internet.

Target Audience

Graduation and Post-graduation students Working professionals

To increase the visibility of Sikshana foundation on Facebook we have phased out the entireactivity as:

Why: Awareness related to education

Main purpose is to increase engagement on this page.

Spreading the word related to education.

This will help increase page traffic. Sources to be utilized

Sikshana Blog

Videos on You tube (Refer annexure for links)

What: Awareness around Sikshana

Purpose is to showcase journey of Sikshana.

Make people aware of the social change Sikshana has brought about.

Sources to be utilized

The journey of Sikshana can be showcased through video created by the team.

Any Sikshana initiatives related to content at various district level needs to be sourced tobe

How: Sikshana Initiatives

Team has generated Articles which talk about Sikshana initiatives

Existing resources available on YouTube channels can be posted

Volunteer Experience

As volunteers we have written our experience and created video resources around it.

Similarly for any volunteer activity a central team can source the data which can beposted online.

To increase the effectiveness Social Media Marketing


10/30

The following recommendation have been made by the team

Building a common page where by closing all the other pages started up byvolunteer and mentors

Linking the Facebook page with the Website.

Tagging the volunteers and mentors in each post will help increasing the reach

Any external communication from team Sikshana should carry link toFacebook page.

If required Sikshana can also go for Adverts that is Facebook paidadvertisement in the short run so as to gain visibility.

Forming a central content management team which will source from content(video, articles and pictures) for any events that happen across schools

Media article should be published on Facebook pages.

Note: The scope of the above material is limited but following a similar structure can help

Sikshana sustain visibility.

Broadcast Media

We managed to tie up with Suvarna channel to cover the event on 21st February which was on

the International Mother Tongue Day. The channel knows about Sikshana Foundation and what

role they play in contributing towards a childs education and also improving the government

schools with its programs. Sikshana has established a good connect with the channel and they

could leverage on this contact to cover their future events or any special programs that take place

be it in the city schools or rural schools.

Chapter 4Videos for YouTube & Facebook

A video was created for Sikshana foundation basically for the following 3 reasons:

To bring awareness about Sikshanas initiatives and to sensitize the people regarding theagenda it strives for.

Video also served the purpose of being used in corporate donor presentation by showcasingtheir work from a volunteers perspective.

The video was an end-to-end demonstration of Sikshanas programs to be used for socialmedia.

The video aimed at bringing out the real picture of Sikshana. It is not only education of

children that it seeks but the quality of education that will empower them to perform and

excel when they are provided with all the facilities and motivation from their teachers andmentors. They are also striving to raise the bar continuously and reach much above the ASER

levels in terms of Kannada reading, writing and Arithmetic skills which will help the children

compete at par with children studying in normal private schools.


11/30

The video has highlighted most of Sikshanas programs namely:

Reading program

Writing sheet program

Motivational program

Mentoring Delhi trip

Summer camps

Teacher training

Gurupuraskar

Community engagementThe link to the video is as below:

http://youtu.be/5imkd_G2or0

The effort made was highly appreciated by the Sikshana board of directors. The video could be

used by them in future during corporate donor presentation.Another video was made to capture the volunteer experiences during the school visit at Halsur.

We saw three different medium schools at a single campus: Kannada, Urdu and Telugu medium.

Chapter 5 - International Mother Tongue Day Celebration

Why

After the analysis from various Dalberg reports and discussion with Sikshana team

we found that major statistic that was concerning Sikshana was fluency in language

Kannada despite of the schools being Kannada medium. As students come from diverse background so the Language was a key concern for

the team as students were not reaching up to a mark.

Sikshana is doing great initiatives in the sphere of education by empowering the

government schools to improve the quality of education but the NGO and its work

was not very well known.

The celebration of the International Mother Tongue Day was planned by our team and the NGO

accepted the idea readily. A complete plan of programmes for the day with elements keeping the

students engaged was expected from us. After a short discussion, our team came up with a plan

to have a bundle of literary, art and music competitions. Certain events like quiz on Karnataka,recitation, pick and speak, were planned. Since the theme was to build on the interest of

childrens mother tongue, events planned were such that they would have the students actively

participating as well as test their knowledge on their mother tongue, Kannada. The event

stretched for around four hours and was really an awesome experience for our intern team. This

was the preliminary stage which was held in the different taluk levels and the final will be held

in Bangalore towards the end of March.
http://youtu.be/5imkd_G2or0http://youtu.be/5imkd_G2or0http://youtu.be/5imkd_G2or0


12/30

What

In order to emphasize the importance of Language and also appreciate the cultural

diversity schools maintain this day was planned

HowThe planning that we made for the event was as follows:

08:3009:15- Introduction Ceremony

Introduction to the event

State song (Naadageethe)

Lighting of the lamp

National Anthem

09:3010:00- Essay Competition (4-5 topics) -50 Entries

09:3011:00- Elocution -15 Entries

11:1511:25- Round 1 of quizWritten -25 teams11.3012.15- Final round quiz

12:0002:00- Lunch

01:3002:30- Drawing competition -50 entries

01:3002:30- Group Song -10 entries

03:0005:00- Folk Dance - 15 entries

06:0007:00- Prize distribution.

Results:

The results of the celebration of this event are as below.

First and foremost, we were amazed to see the wide pool of talent the village schools had.

This experience of going to some of the schools in villages, near Hoskote, gave us an

insight into the village schools and we were astonished to see some of the brightest kids

of the state.

The feedback obtained from the school teachers was, encouraging the kids to improvise

on their mother tongue is very necessary and this event gave them the much needed

opportunity to do the same.

We, as interns, got an opportunity to interact with the students and teachers, which

actually changed our perceptions about Government schools also.

Coverage and display of the event celebration on the social media will help in increasingthe visibility of Sikshana Foundation on the social media platform (one of the objectives

of this project).


13/30

Recommendations

Career Counseling Day

During the school visit near Halsuru, the interaction with the kids made us feel that they need to

be educated on the career opportunities available, other than the conventional engineering,

medical fields. Another visit to the village schools, near Hoskote, changed the perception. And

there were others with some other thoughts. But one thing was common in alllack of

knowledge on how to get there.

With a little brainstorming on all the above experiences, we have come up with this

recommendation. Students need to have career counseling at right times. During the first week of

the school, students need to be given career counseling sessions, (mainly for students in 7th

grade).

During the counseling, all students can be given information on the various career opportunitiesavailable to them apart from just the traditional Engineering and medical careers.Following points need to be focused:

The different career opportunities available for the students.


14/30

Showcasing success in other fields by sharing videos of successful people in the field ofarts, music, sports etc. (available on YouTube)

Some students think that choosing a career is not an option to them since they might notbe able to afford it. Hence making them aware of the monetary assistance available to

them like scholarships from the government, other NGOs etc (some primary research to

be done on the available scholarship programmes by different organizations, like Tatascholarships for higher education, etc) is much needed to encourage them to continue

their education.

Creating awareness on the differences in work life or personal life, with education andwithout education (obtaining respect in the society, getting the right way of living, etc)

Getting professionals from various fields like doctors, artists, scientists, successful

businessmen, engineers, defense, IAS, IPS etc will motivate the kids to perceive the

things better and work to fulfilling their dreams.

A goal setting session for the children, in the form of essay writing on what they want tobe in future, how they think they can achieve their goals, what are the hurdles and what

they need to overcome the hurdles, can be held in schools. These essays will actually give

an idea of the students perceptions about their future. Based on these, there can besessions held to give them proper guidance which will help the students to have a road

map for the future.

Growing up Education for Girls

In the current times there is a growing need for the girls to understand growing up and be well

aware of the biological changes that their body undergoes when she reaches adolescence.

Mainly, for them, to understand the why and what of growing upand help them to be more

physically fit. Their growing up should not be inhibited by any myths surrounding it and along

with it as she takes up womanhood she should grow as a confident strong female.

With this thought in mind we made few recommendations to Sikshana team which can be taken

up further

Sikshana can start the programme in order to facilitate the same by:

Female field mentors/School teachers should take up such sessions for the girls to help

them understand the entire process

We suggested that workshops can be arranged through various organizations which are

in this sphere

http://www.doctorsforseva.youthforseva.org/contact-us/

We found few online resources which can be used to demonstrate and facilitate easylearning for kids in the language they will be comfortable understanding.

Scope of Session

To include education on Biological aspects of changes in girls

Sessions on personal hygiene

Introduction to Sex education
http://www.doctorsforseva.youthforseva.org/contact-us/http://www.doctorsforseva.youthforseva.org/contact-us/http://www.doctorsforseva.youthforseva.org/contact-us/


15/30

Take session on image management and motivation

The scope can also be included to add basic self Defense for girls

Programme audience

Girls aged 10-16 years.

Programme executor

Female mentors/ Teachers/ Volunteers

Annexure

Growing up

http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/talk/talk_about_menstruation.html: growing up

http://www.mayoclinic.org/menstruation/art-20046004: growing up

http://www.slideshare.net/VikasVinci/menstrual-education-for-girls-dr-vikas-chothe:

growing up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvPVyas68jE:: growing up http://www.ungei.org/resources/files/LifeSkills.pdf:Lifeskills

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWOOscL2HeU:Self Defense

Motivational Videos

Highlight the power of a Child

http://youtu.be/KK_0T7IYnqw

Key Points

Each individual has an immense potential to bring about a change one just has to

realize that and each individual can inspire others to bring about a change

Here in this video this little kid could bring about a bigger change and make

others realize too

Highlight that why study

http://youtu.be/y_ZmM7zPLyI

Finding your right Fit

http://youtu.be/-VasGrFLqW8

This video focuses on in the various career options available one cannot be good

in every field one just had to find his right fit based on strength and weakness. Dont give up even if you fail

http://youtu.be/kZlXWp6vFdE

The video is about that one will fail at some point in life it is upto you to take d

failure to heart and stop or to keep on moving

Motivate them by highlighting the contrasting difference between people who are

education and people who are not
http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/talk/talk_about_menstruation.htmlhttp://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/talk/talk_about_menstruation.htmlhttp://www.mayoclinic.org/menstruation/art-20046004http://www.mayoclinic.org/menstruation/art-20046004http://www.slideshare.net/VikasVinci/menstrual-education-for-girls-dr-vikas-chothehttp://www.slideshare.net/VikasVinci/menstrual-education-for-girls-dr-vikas-chothehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvPVyas68jEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvPVyas68jEhttp://www.ungei.org/resources/files/LifeSkills.pdf:Lifehttp://www.ungei.org/resources/files/LifeSkills.pdf:Lifehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWOOscL2HeUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWOOscL2HeUhttp://youtu.be/KK_0T7IYnqwhttp://youtu.be/KK_0T7IYnqwhttp://youtu.be/y_ZmM7zPLyIhttp://youtu.be/-VasGrFLqW8http://youtu.be/-VasGrFLqW8http://youtu.be/kZlXWp6vFdEhttp://youtu.be/kZlXWp6vFdEhttp://youtu.be/kZlXWp6vFdEhttp://youtu.be/-VasGrFLqW8http://youtu.be/y_ZmM7zPLyIhttp://youtu.be/KK_0T7IYnqwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWOOscL2HeUhttp://www.ungei.org/resources/files/LifeSkills.pdf:Lifehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvPVyas68jEhttp://www.slideshare.net/VikasVinci/menstrual-education-for-girls-dr-vikas-chothehttp://www.mayoclinic.org/menstruation/art-20046004http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/talk/talk_about_menstruation.html


16/30

Showing them role model and ideals they connect with

Making them understand that professions beyond the regular ones do exist

Annexure A

HM Questionnaire

1. Name

2. School

3. How many years experience do you have as a principal

4. How many years have you been principal for this school

5. How satisfied are you by Sikshanas engagement, and the work that they do. Rate on

a scale of 5 with 1 being least satisfied and 5 being most satisfied.

6. Are unlimited writing sheets provided to the children, on time?

o Yes

o No

7. How often do you have parent teacher meetings?

o Weekly

o Fortnightly

o Monthly

o 6 Monthly

o Yearly

8. How often do you interact with the Children

o Everyday

o Alternate Days

o Weekly

o Monthly

o Never

9. What is the minimum qualification of the teachers that are teaching in your school.

o High School Pass


17/30

o Class 12 Pass

o B.Ed

o Masters

o Other

10.How often to you take regular feedback of Children from the Teachers.

o Everyday

o Alternate Days

o Weekly

o Monthly

o Never

11.Do you think that giving stars improves the performance of the children

o Yes

o

No

12.How effective do think has Sikshana been in impacting the teaching style of teachers.

o Extremely Effective

o Effective

o Average

o Not at all Effective

13.Do you think the Diary that Sikshana provides helps the children

o Yes

o No

14.Do you have a mechanism in place to check whether the Diaries are being actually

used or not.

o Yes

o No

15.Do you take part in monitoring underperforming students performance

o Yes

o No

16.Do you give teachers suggestions as to how they can improve their teaching

o Yes

o No

17.Do you think mentor visits and engagement programs help the children.


18/30

o Yes

o No

18.Do you meet the mentors to take feedback of their visit.

o Yes

o No

19.Do you evaluate the performance of the school as against its goals.

o Yes

o No

20.Do you think there is a difference between other government schools and Sikshana

run Government Schools?o Yes

o No

21.If yes, to the above question. What is the main thing that you think differentiates

Sikshana run schools from normal government run schools.

22.Has any teacher from your school been a part of Sikshana teachers training program.

o Yes

o No

23.If yes, to the above question.

(a)How many teachers have been trained?

(b)Has any improvement been observed in the performance of the teachers and their

colleagues.

o Yes

o No

24.Do you have any new idea that you would want for Sikshana to implement that will

help the school

25.How many years experience do you have as a principal?

26.How many years have you been principal for this school

27.How often do you have parent teacher meetings?


19/30

o Weekly

o Fortnightly

o Monthly

o 6 Monthly

o Yearly

28.What is the minimum qualification of the teachers that are teaching in your school.

o High School Pass

o Class 12 Pass

o B.Ed

o Masters

o Other

29.Do you have a mechanism in place to check whether the Diaries are being actually

used or not.

o

Yeso No

30.Do you give teachers suggestions as to how they can improve their teaching

o Yes

o No

31.Has any teacher from your school been a part of Sikshana teachers training program.

o Yes

o No

32.If yes, to the above question.(c)How many teachers have been trained?

(d)Has any improvement been observed in the performance of the teachers and their

colleagues.

o Yes

o No

33.How satisfied are you by Sikshanas engagement, and the work that they do. Rate on

a scale of 5 with 1 being least satisfied and 5 being most satisfied.

34.Are unlimited writing sheets provided to the children, on time?

o Yes

o No

35.How often do you interact with the Children

o Everyday

o Alternate Days


20/30

o Weekly

o Monthly

o Never

36.How often do you interact with the Children

o Everyday

o Alternate Days

o Weekly

o Monthly

o Never

37.Do you think the Diary that Sikshana provides helps the children

o Yes

o No

38.

Do you think mentor visits and engagement programs help the children.o Yes

o No

39.Do you think there is a difference between other government schools and Sikshana

run Government Schools?

o Yes

o No

40.If yes, to the above question. What is the main thing that you think differentiates

Sikshana run schools from normal government run schools.

41.Do you have any new idea that you would want for Sikshana to implement that will

help the school

42.How effective do think has Sikshana been in impacting the teaching style of teachers.

o Extremely Effective

o Effective

o Average

o Not at all Effective

43.Do you think that giving stars improves the performance of the children

o Yeso No

44.Do you evaluate the performance of the school as against its goals.

o Yes

o No

45.Do you take part in monitoring underperforming students performance

o Yes


21/30

o No

SDMC Questionnaire

1. Have you seen children do more school work after diaries have been introduced?

a. Yes

b. Noc. Maybe

d. Cant Say

2. Is Diary an effective means to connect with the parents of the students?

a. Yes

b. No

c.

3. Do you think using teaching aids/technology (laptops, other visual aids) helps to teach

students better?

a. Yes

b. No

4. Are mentors visiting schools regularly?

a. Yes

b. No

5. Has the mentor been a part of the SDMC meetings?

a. Yes

b. No.

6.

Rate the impact of the mentors visita. Very helpful

b. Helpful

c. Not Helpful

7. To check for the impact of the Star Program on students, rank attendance on a scale of 1 to

5. (1 being the most effective and 5 being least effective)

a. Attendance

b. Class Participation

c. Exam performance

d. Personal Hygienee. Participation on extracurricular activities.

8. Do you know that the underperforming children are enrolled under Sikshanas reading

program?

a. Yes

b. No.


22/30

9. Rate the impact that the reading program on the progress of children.

a. Very Helpful

b. Helpful

c. Not Helpful

10.How frequently children use writing sheets provided to them by Sikshana?

a. Daily

b. Weekly

c. Not utilizing

11.

Rate the impact that the writing sheets have had on the progress of children.a. Very Helpful

b. Helpful

c. Not Helpful

12.How do you assess the overall improvement in performance of schools to understand the

impact of Sikshana programs implemented? (you can mark multiple options for this

question)

a. Individual performance

b. Overall class performance

c. Overall school performanced. Comparing performance of sikshana schools with non-sikshana schools

13.How is SDMC ensuring the effective implementation of Sikshana programmes

a. Feedback from Mentors

b. Feedback from Head Masters

c. Interaction with Teachers

d. Others

14.In what ways did the Delhi trip help the children .

a. Exposure

b. Knowledge

c. Culture

d. Motivation


23/30

15.What was the role of SMDC in the Delhi trip?

16.How has teachers performance improved after Teachers training programmea. Pedagogy

b. Motivation Level

c. Interaction with Students

17.How many times does the mentor visit the school?

a. Bi-weekly

b. Weekly

c. Fortnightly

d. Monthly

18.How often do Shala Hiteshi visit the schools?

a. Bi-weekly

b. Weekly

c. Fortnightly

d. Monthly

19.How much time do shala hitaishi devote to the school.

20.What are the activities undertaken by them.

21.Has SDMC provided school with newspaper , prizes , conducted annual day, science melaIf yes explain

22.Have you utilized government funds? For what and how much?

23.How does the community help you with respect to the funds? Give Examples.

24.Do you feel there can be any other programs which can help children learn better? If yes,

what are they?


24/30

Teachers Questionnaire

1) School ID

2) Years of teaching experience with the school

5years

3) Which of the Sikshana programs need improvements?

Reading

Writing

Mentor

Diaries

Maths

4) Does giving stars motivate the underperforming students?

Yes No

5) To check for the impact of the Star Program on students, rank the following parameters on

a scale of 1 to 5. (1 being the most effective and 5 being least effective)

Attendance

Class Participation

Exam performance

Personal Hygiene

Participation on extracurricular activities

6) Have the parents been informed that the school is a Sikshana run Government school

Yes

No

7) How often do teachers interact with the parents, to check the impact of the Sikshana run

Programs?

Weekly

Monthly

Quarterly

Yearly

None

8) Do you have meetings with the mentor visiting your school?

Yes

No


25/30

9) How frequently do you have the meetings?

Weekly

Monthly

Quarterly

Yearly

None

10)Do you check the progress of the underperforming students?

Yes

No

11)Are the underperforming students under the sikshana run programs?

Yes

No

12)Do you check the progress of these underperforming students?

Yes

No

13)How often do you check the performance of these children?

Daily

Weekly

Fortnightly

Monthly

Quarterly

14)Do you think Sikshana programs require involvement from teachers?

Yes

No

15)Do you think the writing program is sufficient enough to improve their writing skills?

Yes

No

16)Is the dictionary, incorporated in the diary, an effective medium for students to learn new

words?

Yes

No

17)Do you think the Sikshanas teachers training program has helped you improve your skills?

Yes


26/30

No

18)After the training program, did you come back and share your experience and knowledge

with your peers?

Yes

No

19)Do you use laptops and other visual aids to teach your students?

Yes

No

20)Do you think technology (laptops, other visual aids) help students learn better?

Yes

No

21)On an average, approximately how many children per class have shown significantimprovement in reading skills after the implementation of Sikshana reading program?

10

22)Do you think that the class participation has increased after the Sikshana Star Program?

Yes

No

23)Do you think Sikshana should continue implementing the programs in your school?

Yes

No

Shala Hitaishis

1. How many schools do you handle:___________________

2. How often do you visit the schools assigned to you?

a) once in a week

b) twice in a week


27/30

c) Once in a month

d) Whenever required

3. Which parameters of the Government school will improve under Sikshana intervention?

a) School enrolment

b) Quality of education

c) Continuity of education

4. How students can be made to improve on their Reading Skills

a) Peer Learning by tagging them with peers good in reading skills

b) Giving them class assignment to Read

c) Constantly monitoring them

5. What motivates the kids to perform better?

a)

Letting them do what they wantb) Reward them for their skills

c) Tagging them to better performing students

d) Both b) and c)

6. How often do you have meetings with the mentors?

a) once in a week

b) twice in a week

c) Once in a month

d) Whenever required

7. What do you do in order to motivate the children?

______________________________

8. What is done with the used writing sheets?

a) Ask children to document the sheets

b) Dispose them

c) Store it in the school

9. How is diary being utilized

a) To track homework given to students

b) To track leaves taken

c) To check for addition of New words in dictionary

d) Tracking books being read from library

e) To track the usage of writing sheets


28/30

f) To track the stars being awarded to the student

g) All of the above

10.Do you provide on the spot awards (Stars) for a student demonstrating their skills?

a) Yes

b) No

11.Mention the areas in which the following stars are awarded:

Green star:_______________

Silver Star: _______________

Pink Star: ________________

12.Do you interact with parents?

c) Yes

d)

No

13.Do the mentors share adequate details about Sikshana and its programs?

a) Yes

b) No

14.Should Sikshana create more awareness campaigns so that more people get motivated

and join as Shala Hitaishis?

a) Yes

b) No

15.What will be an effective way to increase awareness about Sikshana programs among the

Shala Hitaishis?

a) Notice

b) Meetings

c) Training

d) One to one mentor sessions

e) Videos

f) SMS

16. What are your challenges in day to day working?

17.Is there any scope for improvement in your role in Sikshana?


29/30

18.Any case study you want to mention?(success story)

Annexure B

Sikshanas Area of Work


30/30

Sikshanas Reach

Documents

Sikshana Report