Agenda for January 23 meeting

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To understand the background for this, please refer:

Venue: Seminar hall (if free), preferably without dispersal after Anirbit's talk
Date: January 23, 2007
Starting time: 5:00 p.m. (approx)
Ending time: 6:00 p.m. (scheduled departure time of the Tempo Traveller from CMI)
Open to: all interested students

The following will be decided:

Whether to go ahead with the CCCL Hexaware project (the answer is almost certainly yes but an official go-ahead would be better)
Whether to parallely attempt to contact a local school (as Bodhayan was making efforts for)
Whether to continue gathering information about corporation schools in the city (as Ramprasad is currently supposed to do)

Modulo the assumption that we are teaching people in the CCCL Hexaware construction site, we need to decide on the following:

Which subjects should be taught (presumably: mother-tongue, English and mathematics)
What other skills are to be taught (e.g. counting money, reading clocks, reading road signs etc.)

Where to teach: Should we teach in the construction site or get the people to CMI?

 The project office people said they would be willing to provide us logistic support if we needed help in teaching at the construction site.

How to organize the students and teachers: Should we segregate students based on age, language and other factors and have separate teaching sessions (with different volunteers) or should we teach them all in one big bunch with 6-7 teachers hovering over them?

Small groups of students all with the same language and within the same age group could mean more focus, less distraction.

Teaching kit: Belliappa mentioned something, and Arpith said that K. S. Balaji's friend could help us in the matter.
Slate, crayons, stationery etc.: This is not expected to be a big issue, though any further suggestions are welcome
Books for the children: These include basic math and basic language books
Books for the teachers to decide how to go about the teaching: Apart from books for the children, there may be books/resources that will help the volunteers decide on a more effective teaching programme.
Other aids that we haven't thought of

This involves questions like:

Should we offer any sops to the kids for coming and listening to us?
How should we convince the children and their parents to trust us and see value in the services we are providing?