Kerala Public School (KPS) Burmamines, has won a national level award in a competition held for school teachers and educational institutions.
Organised by the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), the all-India competition on ‘Innovative Practices and Experiments in Education for School Teacher Education Institutions’, the city school won the accolades for its project titled ‘leverage to Success’. “We are proud winners of the esteemed award. Our project was aimed at improving the slow learners improve their performances. The judges were impressed by out vision and efforts put in,” said school principal Sreekala Karunakaran who was also the project team leader.
As part of the project, a special syllabus for English, Hindi and Mathematics was prepared for the slow learner students to strengthen their basic reading, writing and numerical skills. In all, 14 schools from across the country were selected for participation in the national seminar. The team members, Sashi Singh, Roshni Kharbanda, Gurmeet Sachdev, Sangeeta Gupta, Bibha Kumari, Purna Choudhary, Ganita Singh, Indira Sreekumar, Jagpreet Kaur and S Anju were the faculty of the school that earned prestigious national level award for the cradle.
“We are really happy to have receive the award. The sharing of teaching experiences and diverse classroom practices can provide opportunities for an academic discourse to develop within school as teachers interact with and learn from each other. This will also encourage new ideas and facilitate innovation and experimentation. It is also important to bring together groups of teachers within and across schools and provide support to them in terms of resources as well as time to work together,” said a teacher.