Seva Sadan Teachers D’Ed College Training

On the 18^th of October, English E.teach conducted a long awaited training for the students of the Seva Sadan D’Ed College at Gamdevi.

D’ed is a ‘Diploma in Education’ degree which equips teachers to teach children up to the 8^th grade. It is a very intensive course with subjects like ICT (Info-Communication Technology) and Psychology. However, the numbers at this D’Ed college have been steadily plummeting. Just 4 years back, Seva Sadan had a D’Ed class size of 240 students! And as of this year, the students total is barely 29!

You may wonder about the cause of this fast decline?

The reason is simple-It is a Marathi medium college.

At EET, we are familiar with this horror story- Parents aren’t sending their kids to vernacular medium schools, the school has to shut down & the teachers lose their jobs. BUT the other effect that nobody talks about is this-

The child is put into an English medium school where he is confused and lost due to the challenge of learning science, math, history etc in English; he/she gets demotivated, the parents get frustrated, they are spending money they don’t have on his/her schooling and eventually the child drops out.

Q1. How can these problem be solved?

Ans1. Vernacular schools need to teach better English.

Q2. How can that happen?

Ans2. The teachers in Vernacular schools need to be better equipped to teach English.

Q3. How can the teachers be helped?

Ans. English E.teach provides them with the English teaching tool FREE and trains them in it’s use. We then follow up with the teacher on a weekly basis to check on the children and her progress with the English DVDs.

And that’s exactly what we did here!

The Training session went on for 3 hours. It started off with a discussion of the problems these future teachers anticipate once they enter the Marathi Medium School system in Mumbai. After that they were introduced to our DVDs. During the demo, the teachers quickly started picking up the pronunciations, sentence structure and comprehension of English they will need to teach their students.

But the best way to learn something is to do it. So the class was broken up into groups where all the teachers had to teach a short English lesson using our DVDs.

It took them only 10 minutes to prepare the lesson, as the DVDs are so easy to use; They almost act as a teacher’s guide. Once they all had presented their lessons, we had a feedback round. Everyone chimed in and gave their opinions, feedback and shared their hopes of being able to use these DVDs and teach English to kids as effortlessly as they had today. Their professors were so impressed that they requested for a set of our DVDs to use for training on a regular basis in their college. Obviously, we happily obliged. Obviously, Free of cost.

-Piroja Shroff

For information on our DVDs or to fix up a FREE training at your school/College, contact us at: eteach.bcpt@gmail.com