Agenda for January 23 meeting

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===How to organize the teaching===
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* Where to teach: Should we teach in the construction site or get the people to CMI?
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* 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.
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* 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?
* 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?
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* 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.
* 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
* Other aids that we haven't thought of
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===When to teach===
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The project office people said that Sundays were the only days when they could help us because they (as well as the workers) were busy for the rest of the days. However, it is possible that once we have acquired the trust of the workers and the project office, and once we are reasonably comfortable, we can go on weekdays as well.
===Allurement policy===
===Allurement policy===
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===Addressing the workers===
===Addressing the workers===
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The project office people suggested that, on the coming Sunday, somebody from CMI address all the workers describing our plans and enlisting the support of the workers. The project office people assured us of logistic support but said that it was up to us to convince the workers of the worth of our services. We need to decide:
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* Whether to address the workers
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* What to say in our address
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* What language(s) to address in: presumably Telugu and Oriya
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* Who will address: currently, Bhanukiran and Anirbit are the likely candidates
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==Possible action points==
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===Collecting more information===
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Questions raised in the meeting can help us ''survey'' the CCCL Hexaware site better and collect more information that can help us take more informed decisions on how to educate the children.
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This may involve getting an idea of the kind of economic and social profile, finding out more about who knows which languages and how much, and so on.
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===Decisions on addressing the workers===
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The meeting ''must'' decide details on addressing the workers so that people who are supposed to give the sppeches can prepare them, and so that we can contact Rajesh (the safety engineer who said he'll spread the word about us) indicating that we want to give the address this Sunday.
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===Collecting a list of volunteers and their constraints===
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We would like to use the meeting to get a clear idea of how many people are willing to volunteer for Spark, including Spark's teaching activities (as of now, on Sunday) at the CCCL Hexaware site. We will also try to get an idea of whether there will be enough volunteers to parallely carry on other activities such as helping out the local school.

Revision as of 22:31, 22 January 2007

To understand the background for this, please refer:

Contents

Venue and other sundry details

  • 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

Agenda

Whom to teach

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)

What to teach

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.)

How to organize the teaching

  • 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 aids/tools

  • 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

When to teach

The project office people said that Sundays were the only days when they could help us because they (as well as the workers) were busy for the rest of the days. However, it is possible that once we have acquired the trust of the workers and the project office, and once we are reasonably comfortable, we can go on weekdays as well.

Allurement policy

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?

Addressing the workers

The project office people suggested that, on the coming Sunday, somebody from CMI address all the workers describing our plans and enlisting the support of the workers. The project office people assured us of logistic support but said that it was up to us to convince the workers of the worth of our services. We need to decide:

  • Whether to address the workers
  • What to say in our address
  • What language(s) to address in: presumably Telugu and Oriya
  • Who will address: currently, Bhanukiran and Anirbit are the likely candidates

Possible action points

Collecting more information

Questions raised in the meeting can help us survey the CCCL Hexaware site better and collect more information that can help us take more informed decisions on how to educate the children.

This may involve getting an idea of the kind of economic and social profile, finding out more about who knows which languages and how much, and so on.

Decisions on addressing the workers

The meeting must decide details on addressing the workers so that people who are supposed to give the sppeches can prepare them, and so that we can contact Rajesh (the safety engineer who said he'll spread the word about us) indicating that we want to give the address this Sunday.

Collecting a list of volunteers and their constraints

We would like to use the meeting to get a clear idea of how many people are willing to volunteer for Spark, including Spark's teaching activities (as of now, on Sunday) at the CCCL Hexaware site. We will also try to get an idea of whether there will be enough volunteers to parallely carry on other activities such as helping out the local school.

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