School Education Program
Started in 2006
Dharwad, Bengaluru
Building Human &
Social Capital
Community centric
partnership
Local, innovative & replicable solutions
Quality education for Govt. school students through infrastructure, learning aids, technology enabled education, health & hygiene awareness
Building Human Capital
by Collaborating with Government Schools
SVYM School Education Program complements & supplements the learning activities in Govt. schools with technology, reach & capacity building of teachers. By building the Human Capital of students and teachers we are also bridging the ‘invisible gap’ in learning leading to more productive next-gen workers.
106
Govt. Schools in Bengaluru & Dharwad Districts
24730
Students engaged through School Education Program
12314
Student Driven Learning Sessions
4695
WASH Sessions to encourage hygiene during COVID-19
14973
Workbook
Sessions
10607
Science DIY & Numeracy sessions
646
SDMC & Parent
Meets
IMPACT STORY
Engineers of a Better Tomorrow!
Our effort towards equitable education through accessible and student centric learning focuses on rural
children studying in Govt Schools.
To implement this vision, SVYM’s School Education Program (SEP) engages students, teachers and School Development & Monitoring Committees (SDMC) in about 106 Govt Schools in Karnataka.
To spark students’ interest in science, theory classes are conducted on a tablet loaded with interactive learning material, videos & quizzes. Students are grouped in three, intentionally pairing the slow and strong learners together. Learning science in Kannada or any native language for that matter has an inbuild handicap. We have conveniently borrowed science terms from English and pairing children together often facilitates in overcoming this challenge in Govt. schools, as children pick words from each other naturally. School Education Program also covers Maths and Social Studies.
Mobile Science Lab, a vehicle that carries & conducts science experiments and provides lab equipment to Govt. schools that don’t have a lab or the equipment attempts to bridge the potential learning gap in rural schools. Observing science days like the Pi Day, Zero Shadow Day & Solar Eclipses etc. take science out of the textbook & into real life soaking the children & teachers alike in curiosity under the sun.
The SEP curriculum is integrated into the school learning hours, & we appreciate the school committee and parent bodies to see the value the program brings in educating our children.
The SEP team also compliments the learning activities in these Govt Schools with WASH components promoting health & hygiene awareness early in a child’s life.
During COVID-19, the SEP remodelled itself into Community Learning Clubs (CLCs) to continue engagement of students through learning activities insmall groups with COVID appropriate measures, the program saw an opportunity to promote self learning by designing special workbooks to engage children cooped up at home. Our staff like everyone else in the education sector also faced job related uncertainties and CLC did a little for them too.
With the SEP Program back in full swing now, the video story of these energetic students from a Govt. School in Nanjangudu shows that they have the potential to become the torchbearers of science & the engineers of a better tomorrow.