1. Teachers’ Community of Learning
Government Aided Schools
Bengaluru South 3 block

2. Program focus areas
● Teacher professional development
● Improving school educational processes
● Supporting school development processes
● Building knowledge around effective technology
integration

3. Teacher professional development
What
● Technology for teaching
learning in class
● Technology for self learning
● Building digital capabilities
in teachers
● Supporting teachers to
become reflective
practitioners
How
➔ Block level workshops
➔ School level workshops
➔ Resource creation and
publishing
➔ (Geogebra files,
language files)
➔ Classroom support
➔ Online courses

4. Improving school processes
What
● Use of digital resources in
teaching learning
● Creation and maintenance
of a school computer lab
● Digital literacy for students
● Integrating new curricular
modules in school
curriculum
How
➔ Time-tabled classroom
participation in select schools
➔ Resource support to teacher
➔ Support teacher for digital literacy
➔ Resource modules on adolescent
education, environmental
education, digital safety
➔ Intra-school and inter-school
events

5. Improving overall school processes
What
● Improving school
communication
processes
● Supporting schools in
their branding and
communication
● Integrating community
with the school
How
➔ IVRS messages with
parents
➔ Support in the creation of
school websites and other
communication outputs
➔ Community documentation
with digital story telling
➔ Media articles

6. Indicative curriculum ideas
Mathematics
● Introductory resource modules for bridging learning gaps in identified topics
– Activities, worksheets, digital resources
● Developing lessons using Geogebra for mathematics teaching (Demo of geogebra
files)
– For teacher demo, for student self-learning
● Visual programming using Turtle blocks to build mathematical thinking
● Designing ICT based formative and summative assessments
● Project based approaches to school mathematics
● Setting up of a math lab
● Understanding the role of language in mathematics teaching
● Understanding the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge framework for
mathematics teaching

7. Indicative curriculum ideas
Languages
● Introductory resource modules for bridging learning gaps in language levels
– Activities, worksheets, digital resources
● Using technology to create a resource rich environment for building communicative
competencies
● Creating immersive experiences for second language learning
● Creating modules for building communicative competencies
● Use of digital story telling as a method of meaning making and expression
– Graphics, audio visual
● Making age and level appropriate reading materials in Kannada and English
(Demo of stories created and interactive resources on H5P)
● Use of educational tools for language learning (Demo of Indic Anagram)

8. Indicative curriculum ideas
Digital literacy (for teachers and students)
● Interacting with ICT – an understanding of computers, internet and digital
safety
● Learning to create with different digital applications
– Concept mapping, drawing tools, text documents, audio visual files,
● Storytelling by creating and combining multimedia digital resources
– Languages and social sciences
● Exploring different online and mobile based apps for learning
– Maps, dictionaries, timelines
● Interacting with subject based educational tools
● Visual programming

9. Indicative curriculum ideas
Sciences and social sciences
● Inquiry based approach to learning science – doing
science
● Using digital simulations and online labs for
experimentation
● Creating videos of lab experiments for teachers’ use
● Using digital story telling to develop multiple perspectives
● Use of different tools and mobile/ web applications for
learning social science, including the use of a tiimeline

10. Suggested block program (Mathematics)
01/08/18 02/08/18 Current requirements in math teaching learning
Introductory modules for number systems, geometry
Use of Geogebra for math teaching
Identifying ICT resources for student learning
06/09/18 07/09/18 Introductory algebra module
Using spreadsheets for math teaching
Making sketches for textbook problems in Geogebra
More Geogebra learning
04/10/18 05/10/18 Programming with Turtle blocks
Developing assessment Q papers and activities
Using ICT for assessments
Using Geogebra for assessments
Understanding TPCK framework in mathematics teaching
21/11/18 22/11/18 Project based approaches in mathematics
Role of language in mathematics learning
Reflective sharing of teacher practices
03/01/19 04/01/19 Setting up of a math lab
Conceptual explorations in select math topics
Developing assessments using ICT
Reflective sharing of teacher practices

11. Suggested block program (languages)
16/8/18 17/8/18 Understanding the nature of language; show language is thought
Going through an immersive experience in language learning and
introducing modules for communicative competencies
Identifying ICT resources for student learning – introduction to open
educational resources and methods for evaluation of resources
Creation of a community of learning – TCOL and STF
19/9/18 20/9/18 Exploring phonetic approach to language learning – sound and script
Making reading materials using different ICT tools – picture story books
Creating resource rich environments for textbook lessons
11/10/18 12/10/18 Making reading and communicative materials using different ICT tools –
audios and read aloud audio books
Introduction to educational tools and mobile/ web applications
Meaning making with different approaches and digital methods
28/11/18 29/11/18 Story telling as a method of expression - Collaborative story telling
With a given story line and Open ended
Using ICT for formative assessment
10/01/19 11/01/19 Use of DST in language learning
Building language competencies – language across subjects

12. Suggested block program (school leadership and
development)
22-08-
2018
Workshop 2 - Aims of education and vision for my school
development Edit week name
28-09-
2018
Workshop 3 - School support to Teacher Professional
Development
16-11-
2018
Workshop 4 - School and community, planning a school
development project
14-12-
2018
Workshop 5 - Presentation of School Development project
24-01-
2019
Workshop 6 - Review of the TCOL program for 2018-19
and planning for 2019-20