School improvement programme
Subtitle: footprints of change
By: Sucharita Narayanan.
Contributors: Aga Khan Education Service, India.
Publisher: Aga Khan Education Service, India
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Bombay
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: School management and organization -- India -- Bombay.; Educational planning -- India -- Bombay.
Other titles: Footprints of change
First sentence: Note from the Author

This book is about a process of transformation that started ten years ago in two schools in Mumbai. Just where does one begin to place on record a series of events that span a decade ? The more I delved into the events the more intriguing it appeared. Each interaction provided a different pattern in the kaleidoscope.

If the events were to be documented which ones should I select as significant and illustrative? Every aspect was linked inextricably with others and to elaborate on one meant detailing the others as well. Each event then proved to have multiple angles --- the management perspective, the teachers viewpoint, the students’ experiences, the parents’ expectations apart from the academic objective. The more I mulled over it the more I became clear that perhaps what was required was to see the programme through the eyes of its key characters. Each perspective then became the substance of a chapter. 

I also recognised that what needed to be documented was the process of change, not its product. What had been launched was a process of transformation and in the transformation often what is forgotten is the process. It was necessary for the schools themselves to pause and reflect upon where they began, where they had reached and how they got there. Perhaps each individual institution attempting change would require to undergo its own process rather than replicate the model.

A series of interviews, focus group meetings, classroom observations, academic meetings, file reports, records and anecdotes from the teachers form the basis of the material presented in this document. It is hoped that the perspective presented is sufficiently broad-based for any reader interested in education.
                                                                    
							 Sucharita Narayanan
						         Documentation Specialist 
						 School Improvement Programme, 
 					          Aga Khan Education Service, India
[ sucharita4@yahoo.com ]
Description: School Improvement Programme 
Footprints of Change


CONTENTS 


PREFACE
INTRODUCTION

I
SIP & Curriculum 
Redesigned to Reach Out

II
SIP & the Teacher
Redefined Roles 

III
SIP & the Student
Through the Child’s Eyes

IV
SIP & Management
Building Bridges

V 
SIP & Dissemination
Spreading the Word

LOOKING BACK


APPENDICES


 














	CONTENTS 	Page No
	PREFACE	2
	Note from the Author	5
	INTRODUCTION	7
I	SIP & Curriculum 
Redesigned to Reach Out	15
II 	SIP & the Teacher
Redefined Roles 	43
III 	SIP & the Student
Through the Child’s Eyes	62
IV 	SIP & Management
Building Bridges	79
V 	SIP & Dissemination
Spreading the Word	85
	LOOKING BACK	100
	APPENDICES	106

ion of schools in Bombay, India.
Notes: SIP & the Curriculum 
Redesigned to Reach Out

We want learning to be exciting .....
What should the curriculum comprise?
How should it be taught?
In what ways should classroom 
environments change? ..... are some questions
Do we have answers ?
We are clear we want .....
Child-centred education
not rote and regurgitation .....
Field trips, worksheets,
direct experiences with materials
rather than information
from texts .....
But ..... how do we know
that children are learning?
How should that learning be assessed?
Can evaluation focus on application of knowledge ..... rather than its acquisition?
Can the curriculum be different from the state-prescribed one?
How should reflection and review be built into the academic day?
Somehow we have to find a way ..... 
use the curriculum to reach out to children ..... 
make learning exciting.