Training

Organization of Four-Day Training Programme for SSD Primary School Teachers on Multi-Lingual Education

Odisha occupies a unique position with 22.85% of its population being tribal. The state is home to 64 tribes, speaking 21 tribal languages and more than 74 dialects. The ST & SC Development, M & BCW Department manages 1450 schools with primary classes, where over 1.5 lakh students are enrolled. In such a diverse linguistic environment, with students speaking different languages and dialects, addressing them effectively in both their native languages and textbook languages poses a significant challenge in a multilingual and multicultural setting.

 

Addressing this challenge requires teachers to have foundational training on how to manage multilingual classrooms. To tackle this issue, ATLC, on behalf of the ST & SC Development, M & BCW Department, has successfully organized four-days Language Training Programme for teachers in 28 batches, following the guidelines outlined below:

• Mapping Multilingual Schools and developing a common code to address the issues.
• Addressing common geo-cultural boundaries and mutual intelligibility in languages.
• Utilizing common vocabularies prevalent among children in each geo-cultural zone.
• Connecting the traits with textbooks.
• Developing Teaching Learning Materials (TLM) from local common resources and their applications.
• Empowering students with Flexible Learning Networks (FLN).

ATLC has already organised training programme of the Resource Persons at State level so that they will train the teachers following guidelines.

Schedule Of MLE Orientation Training Programmes