My last post was dated April 13th. I'm writing after so many days because of two reasons- first, the semester end was approaching and I had a lot of lag to cover up, and second- because someone told me that this had started looking like "my blog" rather than "YATN blog". So I thought it would be nice to give writing a break. Though I had been requesting my colleagues to write something, but probably they are not particularly fond of writing- so here I am again!
The next big thing that we were to do was to start a large scale active involvement of the IISER community. For this, we started an "Evening School". Though the ideas had started to crystallize in the winter break itself, the final execution of the activity could not be until February. All the new members together with the old ones sat down and drafted a scheme for the school- we had finished that in 3 days, by 15th February.
The main idea behind the school was to prepare the older kids for Sikhya and to interact with and teach the littler ones. We had documented nearly 80 kids in the last few days and now, the task was to divide them into classes. The school timings were decided to be from 6pm to 7:30pm. But before that, we had to decide how the activity was to be organized. We divided ourselves into four groups- 1) Organizing, 2) Teaching, 3)RAW and 4)Fun Activities. RAW is Research and Analysis Wing (and it is obviously not inspired by the RAW that operates in India. We call it so because the name is fancy!). We initially made ten teaching groups (two more were added subsequently) and divided the labour kids according to their age and knowledge. Each group was assigned to two students in the Teaching group. The classes for each group were to be held on alternate days. The RAW was responsible for framing the course structure in collaboration with the teachers. The organizers were supposed to make resources available for the evening school. Besides, there were "Shuttlers" who would go to different areas to fetch the kids, keep a record of who was coming, and then assure that the kids went back home safely. The Shuttlers were mainly the organizers, along with some teachers. The fun activity people were given the job to hold some hands-on and fun activities for the kids on the weekends. And thus, we started the first evening school in IISER Mohali.
The next big thing that we were to do was to start a large scale active involvement of the IISER community. For this, we started an "Evening School". Though the ideas had started to crystallize in the winter break itself, the final execution of the activity could not be until February. All the new members together with the old ones sat down and drafted a scheme for the school- we had finished that in 3 days, by 15th February.
The main idea behind the school was to prepare the older kids for Sikhya and to interact with and teach the littler ones. We had documented nearly 80 kids in the last few days and now, the task was to divide them into classes. The school timings were decided to be from 6pm to 7:30pm. But before that, we had to decide how the activity was to be organized. We divided ourselves into four groups- 1) Organizing, 2) Teaching, 3)RAW and 4)Fun Activities. RAW is Research and Analysis Wing (and it is obviously not inspired by the RAW that operates in India. We call it so because the name is fancy!). We initially made ten teaching groups (two more were added subsequently) and divided the labour kids according to their age and knowledge. Each group was assigned to two students in the Teaching group. The classes for each group were to be held on alternate days. The RAW was responsible for framing the course structure in collaboration with the teachers. The organizers were supposed to make resources available for the evening school. Besides, there were "Shuttlers" who would go to different areas to fetch the kids, keep a record of who was coming, and then assure that the kids went back home safely. The Shuttlers were mainly the organizers, along with some teachers. The fun activity people were given the job to hold some hands-on and fun activities for the kids on the weekends. And thus, we started the first evening school in IISER Mohali.
What next dude????
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