"Come Fall in Love with Math" | KVS Online Math Inservice Course - 2020
Channel: CCL IITGN
Date: 11/06/2020

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We conducted a 12-day inservice course for teachers of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) from 26th May to 6th June 2020. This workshop was sanctioned as a pilot to gauge the effectiveness of the online medium and decide whether it can be deployed on a larger scale. The feedback from the participant teachers has been extremely overwhelming with a unanimous message to take this to all teachers.

Written Feedback: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cz9raNpABmUECUvaNB4nQyV2gyR7jZsn?usp=sharing

Deep focus of the workshop on conceptual understanding, critical thinking, making math lively and relating to the curriculum, was unique and key to the success of the pilot.

Mr N. Venkatesulu (KVS Ballari) commented that this was a unique approach to math and learning. For every method, focus was on concept and logic, why the process/formula works the way it does. Another teacher, Rashid Hussain shared that the workshop has taught him to ask the question “Why” for everything you learn. Mr Saroj Sahu (KV Bhubaneswar) said that even though he has done many in-service courses prior to this, the quality of teaching and environment in this course is unparalleled.
 
Observations:

Based on the pilot online workshop, three things stood out:
      1. Online interaction is extremely effective provided content is very engaging, inspiring. 

      2. Huge hunger and need for a very high quality, unique offering by IIT Gandhinagar.
 
      3. Strong message from teachers to scale it to every teacher and sustained interaction over the whole year. The current lockdown period can be used to take it to all teachers.
 
The trick is to get the attention of teachers in the start which we were successfully able to do by sharing interesting stories related to math and related to the curriculum. We were also able to showcase the inherent beauty of math and communicate that math is enchanting apart from its utilitarian aspects. Teachers universally said they had never imagined workshops can be so engaging and inspiring. Never attended such a rewarding workshop in their entire career. 

You may join the course on Google Classroom (code: thjw2ug) and access the course material such as videos, exercises, quizzes, presentations and assignments.
(Note: Use personal Gmail account to join the course. Organisational email Id will show an error while joining the course.)




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