Butterfly Fields

Teachers

Teaching is a unique profession – even as they teach, teachers remain students for their lives. Not surprisingly, many teachers learn from their interactions with students. Every child’s pursuit for academic excellence can be a unique learning experience for a teacher.

There is an old Chinese proverb that says:

I hear and I forget
I see and I remember
I do and I understand

How very true! Children need to go through the whole process of experimenting with situations before they can appreciate the nuances of science - analyzing the problem, developing the appropriate solutions, choosing the right materials, putting them together to arrive at the final design, taking it apart incase of deficiencies, and repeating the process from the start. With reference to teachers, hands-on learning can also be used to drive assessment so that teachers can measure both factual knowledge and comprehension.

We at Butterfly Fields believe that activity based learning holds the key to the future of education and that the onus of taking our education system to the next level lies with teachers. To revolutionize our education system, teachers must first dare to go beyond conventional methods of teaching and try innovative methods of reaching out to students.

For teachers who are willing to join us in our endeavor, we are willing to help in every possible manner to make this dream come true. We have conducted our programs at Sanghamitra school, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Public School, Jubilee hills; The Jain International School, Silver Oaks, Little Flower School, All Saints School .etc. an around 600 government school teachers across various mandals of Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh.

Here are some of our initiatives which aim at promoting hands on teaching and help teachers make their classes more exciting & meaningful:
• Training programs for teachers
• Curriculum based content development
• Training material and teaching aids
• Partnering with schools in their research activities

Training Programs

We conduct regular workshops for teachers to discuss the relevance of hands on learning. Our interactive workshops demonstrate how activities can be used as an effective means of teaching and encourage teachers to promote this form of pedagogy. Our training programs for teachers:

• Start with an activity to introduce the concept of hands-on learning
• Provide creative ideas to make teaching more student-friendly
• Demonstrate methods of teaching through activities and show how they can be integrated into the regular curriculum
• Identify issues in implementing hands-on learning and explore possible solutions

Other content of the Workshops

• Discussions on the common misconceptions of students (topic wise, grade wise)
• Ideas about handling those misconceptions with activities to lay a stronger foundation
• Sample Experiential Aids
• Activity kits
• Hands on activities
• Toy-making, model- building
• Role plays
• Charts and other exhibits
• Games based on a specific topic
• Flash cards
• Videos / Photographs
• Ideas for creating activities linked to curriculum using commonly available low cost material, such as:

Matchsticks & cycle valve tubes
Bamboo sticks / cycle spokes
Empty film reel bottles
Empty thread reels
Cycle tube pieces
Ice cream sticks
Soap boxes / Pencil boxes
Buttons / Bobbins
Card board, Chart sheets, Bottle caps

Usual Time Frames

These workshops are usually a 2 or 3-day affair. They can, however, be customized to suit the needs of the teachers and the school management.

To join our workshops or for any further information, contact us at:mail@butterflyfields.com