APPLYING BEST PRACTICES Under the Governance and Capacity Building component of the NECTAR project, Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) comprising government school teachers and system leaders across Nagaland receive periodic capacity building support. This aims to transform teaching and learning practices, foster collaboration among educators, cultivate a culture of continuous learning and professional development among them,…
Professional Learning Communities (PLC): Making use of his learnings from the PLC training, Sir Mhathung, a mentor of Maths PLC from GPS Peduzha Colony in Dimapur District, engaged his students in hands-on learning with the aid of tangrams. The use of tangrams provides opportunities for students to collaborate, enhance their creative thinking and have fun….
Community Participation: Fulfilling NECTAR’s objective of enhancing community-led development by empowering the community through Performance Incentive Grants (PIG), the School Management Committee (SMC) members and teachers of GPS Woroku in Wokha District provided free labour and replaced the school roof. The PIG programme is one of many initiatives by NECTAR aimed at strengthening school management,…
Professional Learning Communities (PLC): With the belief that activity-based learning is more impactful than theory learning, Sir Velhuto Phesao, PLC Mentor for Physics Subject from GHS Phek Village, engaged his students through an activity using everyday household items like baking soda and vinegar while teaching the lesson, ‘Law of the Conservation of Mass’. The trained…
Gaining new insights on pedagogical strategies during the PLC trainings, Sir Lusi Fithu, Mentor English, GMS Kukegwo in Phek District, conducted an ancestral knowledge sharing session for the students as part of community involvement in the teaching-learning process. The womenfolk of the village shared about the history of their village, educated the students on their…
With the notion that reading and writing are two essential aspects of language education, Sir Lakiumong Yimchunger, President of English PLC from GHSS Shamator, conducted an exercise, where the students of Class 12 were tasked to select a book from the school library, read and write a summary. Sir Lakiumong asserts, “Memorising questions and answers…
Putting learnings to action, Sir Imtiyanger has started engaging his Class 4 students through experiential learning by using beads to help them differentiate between even and odd numbers during their Math Class. Sir Imtiyanger is a Mentor of the Preparatory Stage Mathematics PLC in Mokokchung District.
The trained teachers of the Subject-based Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) have been actively implementing their lessons with improved practices in the form of student-centered and activity-based pedagogy in classrooms. This is making learning joyful and enabling the students to overcome challenges and discover their strengths. As such, a story writing competition was conducted by NECTAR…
