Lessons learnt till August 2005

With just the one and a half an hour slot, its difficult to create any major impact in the kids. Ofcourse there are some smart kids who make use of the teaching and shall become better students because of the interactions.

The fundamental problem that we have identified is "Communication skills(English)" of the kids.
This includes
reading/listening to comprehend
writing/ speaking to express themselves

So what is important is
see what could be done on these fronts in the weekdays.
e.g: Hippocampus reading material and task sheets
Buying kids 7th standard English medium Maths, Science and Social books.

Also we have to come up with periodic evaluation methods for these communication skill.

May be we could along with teachers try to come up with achievable goals interms of these evaluations.

After interacting with two 8th std kids, could see that writing and speaking English were their primary problems.

May be in every 2 hour slot, 1 hour we could evaluate the kids on their basic skills and give feedback to the teachers. In the second hour we could do some value adds from the interested volunteers side.