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The Main Scope of the Project is :
Aim of the project
“A project to fulfill the essential laboratory needs of 3 high schools and 2 higher secondary schools in remote rural & tribal villages to make teaching and learning easy both for the teachers, as well as for the students”.
Scope of the Project
- To make essential additions to the laboratories for Physics, Chemistry and Biology so that the students are helped to get a first-hand learning experience by performing various experiments on their own; (list of equipments appended to this project application )
- To allow students to interact directly with the data that is gathered and to get a first-hand learning experience by performing different experiments on their own.
- To get students make use of the models and then understand the different scientific concepts and theories;.
Project location
The 5 project schools are situated in remote rural villages in Kalasapakkam Block of Thiruvannamalai district, Tamilnadu State, India.
Outcomes of the project
- Increased ability of the teachers in giving students first-hand experiences.
- Improved motivation of the teachers to involve students making use of laboratory equipments and make of their teaching interesting for the students;
- More than 2875 poor students were learning becomes based on concrete, direct, first-hand experience and not based on abstract thinking.
- Involvement of the Parents & Teachers Association in project activities & create a Maintenance Fund to make replacements to laboratory materials.
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Monitoring & evaluation
- Mr. R.BALU, the secretary of BOSS NGO mainly Monitored for all activities connected to the project.
- An Implementation & Monitoring Committee have constituted that will consist of representative of BOSS NGO and one representative each from School Management Committees in the 5 project schools. This committee had been often as necessary to see the progress of the project.
- Monitoring and documentation are continuous and ongoing activity.
- Evaluation in relation to the processes as well as the products and some of the indicators are as follows:
o Procurement of all needed and essential equipments and materials
o Usage of the five laboratories – number of practical sessions by teachers of all five disciplines
o Feedback of teachers – to be assessed through the conduct of in-depth interactions with teachers in all 5 schools
o Feedback of students – to be assessed through the organization of focus group discussions in all 5 schools – one focus group discussion with 10 students in lower standards in each school (6th to 8th standard & in each school) & one focus group discussion with 10 students in higher standards (9th to 12th standards).