Effect of short-term course in mathematics on pedagogical practices in upper primary schools of M.P. and CG

Abstract

Looking to the difficulties in learning mathematics felt by the learners, learning gaps and guidelines of NCF (2005), in the year 2016-17, a 12 weeks short-term course was conducted for teachers/teacher educators in a split model comprising of three phases. In the first phase, a two week face-to-face training programme was organized to provide training to KRPs on the developed course material (2015-16). In the second phase, KRPs visited schools to undertake the practical assignments in the real classroom situations and a report based on their assignment was submitted. A team of resource persons of the short-term course analyzed and assessed the assignments of KRPs. The third phase consisted of two weeks programme which was organized in face-to-face mode wherein KRPs discussed and shared their experience gained in I" and 2 nd phases. This program was an attempt to solve the practical problems faced in teaching of mathematics through the short term in-service course. In the short-term course 28 teachers from MP and 07 from CG (Total 35) were trained which belonged to 35 schools (One Teacher from each school).