Re: School Education Program(HIV/AIDS) Request for teaching tools

[Guest guest]

Dear all,

I do not know whether Powerpoint presentations are effective while working with

school children.

YDA: Centre for Youth Development and Activites (Pune) has developed a good six

module program through participatory training called TARANG ( Training

Adolescents of Reproductive health and Gender).

It is a participatory, peer training done by youth themeslves which has wide

acceptance among the adolescents in terms of asking questions as well as

clarifying doubts. Powever Point presentation through statistics may not make

any sense to the school children.

Mathew

Mathew Mattam

e-mail: <matthewmattam@...>

[Guest guest]

Dear All,

Sexual and Reproductive Health is a major component of adolescent education

related to HIV which certainly needs a space where the youth would be able to

discuss their personal issues.

Since some of these issues are very sensitive it needs a participatory space.

PPP may not serve the purpose because of its one way nature and very little

scope for participation.

The education package should be peer specific.

With warm regards,

Nandi Kishor Sandh

9337696007 (M)

e-mail: <nandi2006s@...>

[Guest guest]

Dear Mr. Sandh,

First let me introduce myself, I am Sayantani from banglanatak dot com. As an

organisation we have been involved with social communication using theatre based

methodology for the last 10 years across the country. You can find more details

on our work at www.banglanatak.com.

About the concern you have raised, I couldn't agree more with you.

This is a sensitive subject, and whats crucial to the broad objective is to

maintain the essence of empowerment through information for which we need to

make the whole process interactive, participative so that it encourages

adolescents to seek information from proper sources.

In December 2009, we organised and hosted a youth festival at Delhi on behalf of

UNFPA which was named 'UMANG 2009'. About 400 adolescents and their teachers

from around 21 schools across the country participated in the 3 days residential

festival at Delhi.

The broad objective was to get direct feedback from the adolescents for

evaluating the Life Skill based Sexual Reproductive Health program that UNFPA

runs through the school curriculums.

We had designed a series of activities over the 3 days where we had debate,

elocution, painting, mask making, plays and their was a mandatory theatre based

life skills development workshop.

What was interesting to observe was the enthusiastic participation from the

students of course, particularly so from the vernacular medium students who

found the whole experience very empowering, even more so was the involvement of

the teachers where they demanded a workshop to be conducted only for their own

skill development.

The various theatre based exercises and games undertaken to address specific

communication and life skill issues, the teachers felt it was very innovative to

make their communication with their students more interesting and effective

rather than conventional, one way classroom mode.

So, as a strategy, it was found very effective. Many organisations, have

activity oriented manual designed to disseminate information on the issue in

effective ways. But, what is important and crucial is perhaps to give innovative

ideas, strategies and tools to the teachers presenting the curriculum as well as

activities designed to facilitate interactions between the adolescents on the

issue.

We found our experience of UMANG and other projects where we have used similar

strategy and methodology at the grassroots with villagers, ASHA, AWW etc. very

effective and enriching as it is entirely based on 'Learning by Doing'.

Regards

Sayantani 9831218706

Sayantani Raychaudhuri

e-mail: <sayantanir@...>

[Guest guest]

Dear forum

In Kerala we are implementing AHEP. for training the teachers, we have

developed various power point presentations. It is available in the

" Download " section of the website.

http://www.ksacs.in/download-files.php

If it is helpful, we welcome you to use it. Or make adaptations

Regards

Ajai

--

S.Ajai Kumar

Joint Director IEC

Kerala SACS

Red Cross Road

Thiruvananthapuram - 35

Kerala, India

[Guest guest]

Dear All,

I have been one of those silent members of the group so far.

I am Dr. Veenapani, freelance trainer, visiting faculty in B-schools and a

researcher.

I would like to state here that for school education, the key criteria is

teachers who need training to get over there own baggages and inhibitions.

Most often tools are used to hide behind rather than to communicate the issue

with the children.

So I hope there are suggestions from the group on training a very important link

in the whole process.

The school teacher who passes the information scientifically sprinkled with

his/her own dash of morality.

Warm regards.

Dr. Veenapani

e-mail: <veena_shiva@...>