Capacity Building
Capacity Building
For Community-Based Volunteers of Educational Activity Centres (EACs)
Community-based volunteers play an essential role in the success of Educational Activity Centres (EACs) by helping to deliver learning activities, provide guidance, and engage with communities to address local educational challenges. However, to maximize their effectiveness, it is crucial to provide volunteers with the necessary tools, skills, and resources that can empower them to better support the education system, foster local involvement, and address the specific challenges of the community. Capacity building focuses on strengthening volunteers’ capabilities to improve their impact and sustainability in their roles.
Volunteers are trained to establish feedback loops with the community to assess the impact of their educational activities. These involve surveys, interviews, or community meetings to gather input from parents, students, and other stakeholders.
Knowledge dissemination of Child Rights & POSCO Acts, Health & Nutrition about women and children.
Teaching methodology for EAC Tuition Teachers
Debora Foundation India recognized the importance of improving the teaching skills of volunteer educators in our Educational Activity Centres. To address this, a three-day training program was organized to enhance their instructional abilities.
The orientation program was conducted by local volunteer resource persons, including Prof. Dr. Aval Murthy, Prof. Mahabaleshwar, and his colleagues.
The training program covered a variety of teaching methods aimed at enhancing the skills of volunteer teachers. These included:
– Engaging children through games
– Using storytelling to improve concentration
– Encouraging children to tell stories
– Providing more opportunities for active participation, ensuring every child is involved
– Emphasizing the importance of using libraries
– Demonstrating concepts through small experiments
– Teaching English through simple methods
– Enhancing reading skills
Key Areas Identified and Developed through Training for Capacity Building :
In addition to teaching methods, several key educational and personal development insights were discussed:
– Thinking in the local language and writing in English
– Avoiding rote learning without understanding the subject
– Practicing proper and effective communication
– The importance of mental discipline and control
– “Think globally, act locally” as a guiding principle
– How something is communicated matters more than what is communicated
– Teaching children the value of sharing
– Boldness is not innate but developed over time
– Every home should have a dictionary and a grammar book
– Burning a book is a sin, but not reading one is an even greater sin
– “Where women are respected, God is present”
– Success should not lead to arrogance, as it often invites failure
These insights aimed to inspire teachers and help them create a more effective and nurturing learning environment for children.
