Month: July 2019

At least two teachers, from each school, have undergone the Nali-Kali training. cluster level trainings were conducted for 06 days. The master resource persons were given 08 days of residential training at Yellapur of Karwar District, and this activity was started in January 2009.10 Teachers are engaged in group activities during the training program The training covers Nali-Kali Philosophy, methodology, and the activities to be performed in each subject for class 1 & 2, classroom preparations and use of learning materials. The teachers were made to perform the activities. The simulation was appealing and teachers enjoyed it. Training of state-level…

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Learning at one’s pace. This is what I understood from the internet and my experience in the schools Developed in 1995 by teachers in Karnataka’s Mysore district, the Nali Kali strategy adopted creative learning practices to help retain children in school and bring in those not attending school. The child’s ability is measured on a learning ladder and the entire process is split into milestones or phases for every subject. The child can asses his progress himself.It relies on joyful learning and is child-centered. Peers are the first source for help. To master every milestone, the child has to go…

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Nali-kali started in 1995, as a small UNICEF-assisted pilot project in H. D. Kote, Mysore District. Searching for ways to revitalize primary schools, a group of 15 primary school teachers and administrators went to Rishi Valley (Madanapalle, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh) to study the satellite schools where children in multi-grade classrooms were learning to read, write and unleash their creativity in a joyful and exciting environment. When Mysore district came under DPEP Phase II in 1998, the Government decided to upscale the H.D. Kote experiment to cover the district. The DPEP project launched in few districts has accepted joyful learning…

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