Supporting Education and Life Skills for Children from Underserved Communities

Supporting Education and Life Skills for Children from Underserved Communities

Implemented by: Adhya Educational Society Supported by: United Care Development Services

PROJECT PHASE : DECEMBER, 2011 TO MARCH, 2012 (Document version: 23-April- 2012)

Contents

Introduction to Adhya Educational Society .................................................................................... 3

Introduction to United Care Development Services ....................................................................... 4

Resources for Results ...................................................................................................................... 5

Framework for Outreach programs ................................................................................................. 6

Projects and Outcomes .................................................................................................................... 7

Visual Tour ................................................................................................................................... 18

Interaction by UC Representative ................................................................................................ 19

Conclusion .................................................................................................................................... 19

Introduction to Adhya Educational Society

Adhya Educational Society (Adhya) is a non-for-profit society

registered in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Adhya was mainly established to develop interrelationships

among schools through educational activities by creating quality

educational methods, teaching and learning models.

Their flagship institute incorporating the unique teaching and

learning model is 'Adhya Academy of Creativity and Learning'

and is mobile across Hyderabad.

The learning at Adhya Academy is based on interrelationship

between arts and environment (Place Based Education) and can

be used with any Indian or international Curriculum. The

mission is to encourage and unleash the inherent potential in

children in destitution, orphanages and other socially

disadvantaged situations by providing quality driven educational

life experiences.

Adhya Educational Society offers free teacher training at

government schools and NGOs. On-site leadership development

programs are being offered free of cost by Adhya to children at

other NGOs.

Adhya also provides free volunteer training to NGOs depending

on their needs and requirements. Adhya also provides free

consulting in developing outcomes for projects and programs to

other NGOs.

Emphasis is on development of life skills, social consciousness

of value, critical thinking, civic responsibility and sustainable

development through lifelong learning opportunities.

Website: www.adhya.org

Overview Implementing Organization ADHYA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY LEGAL STATUS: Society YEAR OF INCEPTION: January 25th, 2011 STATE : Andhra Pradesh AREAS OF WORK: Education for children in orphanages, destitution and underserved environments SOURCE OF FUNDING : Periodic Donors, Corporate Grants, Donations in Kind. NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES : 2 members full time staff 25 Volunteers

http://www.adhya.org/

Introduction to United Care Development Services

UC's model aims to improve the scale and efficiency of

financing education, health and energy & environmental

services for the very poor, through a result-based and post-paid

model of funding. What this means is that UC applies its own

funds to provide services to beneficiaries. UC then documents

the work and presents the results from these projects as Result

Certificates. Interested investors and donors are then invited to

post-pay for results and acquire these Result Certificates. UC’s

objective is to generate greater Social Returns for philanthropic

investments through this model.

The following links give more updates about UC’s work and

progress: Website: www.yousee.in

Updates:

www.facebook.com/youseeupdates www.twitter.com/youseeupdates

Movies:

www.youtube.com/youseemovies www.dailymotion.com/youseemo

vies

Presentations: www.slideshare.net/youseepresents

Overview UNITED CARE

DEVELOPMENT SERVICES

LEGAL STATUS: Sec- 25 Not

for Profit Company

YEAR OF INCEPTION:

June, 2009

YEAR OF

INCORPORATION:

February, 2010

SOURCE OF FUNDING:

Grant from Michael and Susan

Dell Foundation and PostPay

Donors

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES:

2 Member Full time staff.

AREAS OF WORK:

Health, Education, Livelihoods

and Environment

RECOGNITION:

In December 2009, UC was

Shortlisted in global competition

on “Marketplace on Innovative

Financial Solutions for

Development” organized by

World Bank.

http://www.yousee.in/

http://www.facebook.com/youseeupdates

http://www.twitter.com/youseeupdates

http://www.youtube.com/youseemovies

http://www.dailymotion.com/youseemovies

http://www.dailymotion.com/youseemovies

http://www.slideshare.net/youseepresents

Resources for Results

UC aims at mobilizing resources, be it financial, volunteering, technology enablers etc for result

oriented work in the areas of Education , Health and Environment. In this section, one can

understand the spectrum of resources mobilized through UC platform for Adhya Educational

Society during the months of December, 2011 to March, 2012.

Financial Resources

Project pre-funding by UC

During this phase UC extended its support to Adhya, by supporting

manpower cost of teaching and non-teaching staff. Details of the fund

deployment is provided in the below table. There was no disbursement

of grant in cash by UC to Adhya during this period. UC directly

incurred the mentioned costs.

Support provided by UC for Adhya Staff for Months of Dec-2011 to Mar-2012

S.No Staff Member

Cheque

Number

Date of

Payment

Amount

(INR)

1

Teaching Staff

Member 871850 13-Jan-12 4,000.00

2

Not Teaching Staff

Member 1 967083 13-Jan-12 7,000.00

3

Not Teaching Staff

Member 2 967081 13-Jan-12 5,000.00

4

Not Teaching Staff

Member 3 967082 13-Jan-12 5,000.00

5

Teaching Staff

Member 967098 08-Feb-12 4,667.00

6

Teaching Staff

Member 967115 08-Feb-12 7,000.00

7

Teaching Staff

Member 967126 31-Mar-12 7,000.00

Grand Total 39,667.00

Post-pay Trends

UC support to Adhya has commenced from October, 2011. Outcomes

pertaining to this project have been documented and made available for

Post-pay donation on UC website. Details pertaining to trends of Post-

pay donations for this project can be accessed through the following link http://www.yousee.in/uccertificates.php .

Volunteering Resources

UC also mobilized volunteering support

for Adhya in the areas of accounting and

Finance. Mr. Shashi Mohan K , had

helped Adhya with its accounting

processes by contributing over 6 hours

of volunteering during the months of

January and February, 2012.

Other Resources & Support

Beyond financial support UC also

provided its work space for conducting

trainings by Adhya team for its partners

in the month of March. Over 8 hours of

training sessions were conducted by

Adhya team using UC premises.

UC was also instrumental in facilitating

partnership between Adhya and one of

its current partners Pustakaar. Other

potential partnership that could emerge

would be that with Move The Wheel

Foundation.

http://www.yousee.in/uccertificates.php

Framework for Outreach programs

Adhya takes a holistic approach towards training and development; any intervention is

incomplete if only one component of the system is addressed in isolation. Therefore, Adhya

addresses issues using the system theory approach and aims to include all the players and impact

factors to the best extent possible.

ADDIE MODEL: Adhya follows the most common model used in training and development;

Assessment, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation model

Projects and Outcomes

Through their outreach model , Adhya implements its projects in partnership with various

institutions. This section provides detailed insights into interventions facilitated by Adhya for

various NGO’s and related outcomes. During the months from December, 2011 to March, 2012 ,

Adhya team worked closely with 5 institutions. Areas of work with these institutions broadly

include conducting Baseline assessment for the students with whom these organizations are

working, conducting trainings and workshops for the team members of these institutions etc.

1. PUSTAKAAR

Organization Details: PUSTAKAAR is a Mobile Library program that caters to the low income

population, and that lack the infrastructure or means to have a library system. PUSTAKAAR

works through a network of volunteers who visit these targeted schools and provide the students

an opportunity to borrow books every week with the goal of getting them comfortable with

spoken and written English.

Current Engagement: Adhya engages with volunteers of Pustakaar to train them in areas of

need identified in the assessment.

-Introduction workshop to outcomes, Mission and Vision statement and arts based education was

delivered on February 15th

2012. Establishment of outcomes for Pustakaar at the program and

project level and their measurement is ongoing.

Needs Analysis/Assessment

The key challenges identified as part of Needs Assessment include

1. Developing structure at class level delivery – Pustakaar felt the need at having a standard

structure of delivery modes at class level for each of the volunteer. Adhya’s support in this area

will enable Pustakaar to use age appropriate teaching methods, material and assignments for

children in mixed age library programs.

2. Communication in English - Enable the child to develop expression and voice in English.

3. Address delivery issues such as indiscipline and high noise levels at schools and enable

multiple learning styles and ways of learning to find a voice through arts.

Feedback

“The workshop was very useful and based on the informal discussions I had with the attendees it

seems to have been very well received”

Value for PUSTAKAAR (Outcomes):

- Enable the child to develop expression and voice in English through the above discussed

strategies.

- Value addition to existing Pustakaar programs through age appropriate alignment of teaching

methods, assignments

- Spiral different concepts in English, grammar etc throughout the year through arts based

learning and games and build a robust curriculum.

Potential Engagement:

At a different level, Adhya engages Pustakaar to set up processes for the organization and

measureable outcomes for each school they interact with.

Number of hours devoted/ Number of beneficiaries:

TYPE OF HOURS NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS * HOURS TOTAL HOURS

TRAINING 15 participants* 6 hours 90

NON-TRAINING 21 hours of interaction 21

NON-TRAINING 6 hours of preparation 6

GRAND TOTAL

HOURS

117

2. NIRMAAN ORGANIZATION

Organization Details: Nirmaan Organisation is a Non Govt and Non Profit Organization

committed to work for poverty free, knowledge powered and economically empowered Nation

by focusing on providing education and livelihood opportunities for underprivileged people.

Current Engagement: 1.Adhya engages with volunteers of Nirmaan to train them in areas of

need identified in the assessment. 2. Adhya also facilitates educational programs in collaboration

with Nirmaan for children at Kothaguda Zilla Parishad High School in the areas of arts based

learning, English and Mathematics programs.

-Introduction workshop on service leadership was delivered on February 25th 2012.

Establishment of outcomes for Nirmaan at the program and project level and their measurement

is ongoing.



1. Developing structure at class level delivery – Nirmaan felt the need at having a standard

structure of delivery modes at class level for each of the volunteer. Adhya’s support in this area

will enable Nirmaan to use age appropriate teaching methods, material and assignments.

2. Communication in English - Enable the child to develop expression and voice in English. The

goal of the program is to facilitate age and grade appropriate proficiency for 79 7th

standard

children between June 2012-December 2012. A baseline needs assessment was conducted on all

the 79 children in March 2012 followed by introductory English learning and arts based classes.



Results of Needs Assessment

A needs analysis consisting of baseline documentation from standard 1 to standard 3 was

conducted for English grammar and vocabulary with random samples (38 and 15 respectively)

drawn from student population from 6th

standard students at Kothaguda Zilla Parishad

Government School. The analysis of the data provided an insight in to the type of curriculum

required to be put together to enable learning at a fast pace to increase proficiency from

kindergarten level to 7th

standard in 6-8 months.

Baseline assessment of students in 6th

standard at Kothaguda Zilla Parishad Government

High School, Kothaguda to identify their proficiency levels in English Grammar and

Vocabulary

SCALE OF MEASUREMENT (GRAMMAR)

GRADE MARKS

SCORED

A 80-100

B 60-79

C 40-59

D </= 39

38 students of 6th

standard were given assessment tests at 1st, 2

nd and 3

rd standard levels to test

their proficiency in English grammar with a minimum of grade B score considered as proficiency

at that level. When 38 students of 6th

standard took an assessment test at 1st standard level, 10.5%

scored A grade, 18.4% scored B grade, 44.7% of the students scored C grade and 26.3% D grade

respectively. At the 2nd

standard level test, 83.3% of students scored ‘D’ grade and 96% scored

‘D’ grade at 3rd

standard test level.

Similarly, a majority of students (53.3% and 6.67%) lacked proficiency at 1st standard

vocabulary itself. The results can be interpreted to imply that the curriculum to be

developed for English Grammar and vocabulary for the set of students should start from

Kindergarten level as a majority of them lack proficiency at 1st standard level.

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A 20-25

B 15-19

C 10-14

D <10

Value for Nirmaan (Outcomes):

- Enable the child to develop expression and voice in English through the above discussed

strategies.

- Value addition to Nirmaan programs, capacity building and through volunteer training in

teaching methods, creativity and leadership development.

- Spiral different concepts in English, grammar, Mathematics etc throughout the year through

arts based learning and games and build a robust curriculum.


At a different level, Adhya engages Nirmaan to set up processes for the organization at the

national level, alignment with state chapters and measureable outcomes for each chapter. Adhya

also helps Nirmaan restructure their existing career development programs through effective

teaching methods.



TRAINING (

Kothaguda ZP Govt

School)

40 participants* 12 hours

39 participants * 4 hours

480

156



NON-TRAINING 3 hours of delivery 3

GRAND TOTAL

HOURS

666

3. DIVYA DISHA (RSTC)

Organization Details: Divya Disha is a Voluntary Organization working towards the

empowerment of children and Young people since 1987. Divya Disha runs a Rehabilitation

Service and Training Center (RSTC) for urban underserved at Uppal.

Current Engagement: Adhya engages with 27 girl children who have been rescued from urban

deprived conditions, a majority of these children have never been to school and the current

program aims to prepare them for regular schooling at 3rd

standard level.


A baseline was conducted for the 29 girls in English, Telugu, Hindi and Mathematics to check

their proficiency: The proficiency level assessment results are included on the next page.

S.. no Details of the scales

1 T TS Single Digit numbers- Telugu

2 E SD Single Digit numbers-English

3 T TD Double Digit numbers-Telugu

4 E DD Double Digit numbers-English

5 T AT Alphabet-Telugu (Oral)

6 E RU Alphabet-English-Upper Case

7 E RL Alphabet-English-Lower Case

8 H AH Alphabet-Hindi (Oral)

9 E PH Phonetics English

10 E WU Alphabet-English Upper Case

11 E WL Alphabet-English-Lower Case

12 H WH Alphabet- Hindi

13 T WT Alphabet-Telugu

14 E NS Single Digit numbers-English

15 E ND Double Digit numbers-English

16 O DR Drawing

17 E SR Strokes

The below table is a representation of improvement in proficiency in various concepts in English

between the baseline conducted during first week of February 2012 and March 28th 2012. The

first column represents baseline conducted in February 2012 whereas the second column

represents the improvement at the midterm conducted on March 28th

2012. The baseline

conducted in February 2012 was at the level of Nursery/Lower Kindergarten and a minimum of a

grade “B” was regarded as proficiency. The items colour coded indicate proficiency whereas the

items left blank indicate the child does not have the desired proficiency required at the level of

‘B’ grade. It can be inferred from the table that proficiency in all areas improved between

February and March 2012.

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1 Female RU RU RL RL PH PH WU WU WL WL SR SR








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While there is considerable progress in Lower kindergarten curriculum and proficiency levels

further work is required to facilitate movement of proficiency towards 2nd

standard by the end of

May 2012.

Value for Divya Disha (Outcomes):

- Enable the child to develop expression and voice in English through arts based learning and

games and build a robust curriculum.

- Prepare children to required proficiency level so they become a part of mainstream schooling.

- Prepare children to be comfortably placed in a government or private school at the 3rd

standard level.


Adhya hopes to engage a new batch of children at Divya Disha from June 2012.



TEACHING 27participants* 12 hours/week * 8weeks 2592

NON-TRAINING 36 hours of preparation of curriculum,

teaching aids etc

6

GRAND TOTAL

HOURS

2598

4. INDIAN PEOPLE HIGH SCHOOL

Organization Details: Indian people High School is a low budget school in Raidurg catering to

the local population coming from Kondapur, Tolichowki, Raidurg and surrounding areas. The

parent demographic includes daily wage earners, vendors, electricians, drivers, farmers etc.

Current Engagement: Adhya engages with teachers at Indian people High School to train them

in areas of need identified in the assessment.

-Introduction workshop to teaching and learning models and arts based education was delivered

on March10th

2012 and a second one on Evaluation and assessment on March 17th

2012.



1. Developing structure for evaluation and assessment –Adhya’s support in this area will enable

Indian people High School to use age appropriate teaching methods, material and assignments

for children.

2. Communication in English - Enable the teacher to develop expression and voice in English so

they can express themselves and teach in English.



Value for Indian people High School (Outcomes):

1. To benchmark the pre and post program teaching skill level of teachers

2. To deliver workshops to improve the understanding of curriculum and instruction level of

teachers

3. To develop innovative teaching and learning methods and implement them in the classroom


At a different level, Adhya engages Indian people High School with English training for teachers

in May 2012 followed by two more teaching method workshops in June 2012.






GRAND TOTAL

HOURS

102

5. KOTWAL’S SCHOOL

Organization Details: Kotwal’s school is currently celebrating 60 years of establishment and

caters to mid to low income families. It ahs two branches , one in Marredpally and one in

Bollarum.The demographics of parents are usually farmers, labourers, small scale businessmen,

vendors, and a few salaried employees.

Current Engagement: Adhya engages with teachers of Kotwal’s school to train them in areas

of need identified in the assessment.

- Needs Analysis/Assessment


- The following areas need utmost attention:

1. Evaluation and Assessment ( the teachers lack a complete awareness about assessment)

2. Curriculum interpretation

3. Understanding of Instruction

4. Teaching and learning models

5. Environment: None of the teachers could describe the learning environment at school. A

majority of them did not know what learning environment would encompass.

Value for KOTWAL’s SCHOOL (Outcomes):

1. To benchmark the pre and post program teaching skill level of teachers

2. To deliver workshops to improve the understanding of curriculum and instruction level of

teachers

3. To develop innovative teaching and learning methods and implement them in the classroom


At a different level, Adhya might engage Kotwal’s school in orienting parents, providing

leadership development to students in the near future.




NON-TRAINING 21 hours of documentation and analysis 21

GRAND TOTAL

HOURS

91

Visual Tour

Interaction by UC Representative

Mr. Ramachandra from UC team had taken part in couple of workshops conducted by Adhya

team for the above mentioned NGO’s. UC team also had review meeting with Adhya , to

understand the range of activities Adhya is taking up and what could be the potential activities.

This exercise was conducted in in the month of March , 2012 in UC office. UC team had also

procured all the required vouchers for fund disbursement from Adhya for the period of this

Result Certificate.

Conclusion

With their Outreach model, Adhya team has been able to partner with more number of

organizations. These partnerships are giving Adhya an opportunity to introduce alternative

learning methodologies to greater number of teachers and students. Adhya is also gaining

competence in conducting baseline assessment to understand children’s learning levels and this

could possibly be another service that they might extend to Government schools and other

organizations on a larger scale. UC will continue to support Adhya’s endeavours in the coming

months by providing required resources both financial and non financial.

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