Vidyarambam Trust

Vidyarambam provides early educational intervention for less-privileged children, by training and nurturing capable teachers to create a societal tran Read moresformation. Offer free, quality, supplementary education to under-achieving children from less-privileged sections of society so that they become high-performing, confident students with a bright future. We will do this with a culture of excellence, transparency and accountability. This will be accomplished by developing and deploying learning methods that are relevant to the environment of the children, by nurturing a team of women from every village where we are present and empowering them to transform the lives of the children in their care, and by including their parents in the transformation process.

Vision
To provide early educational intervention for less-privileged children, by training and nurturing capable teachers, to create a societal transformation.
Mission
Offer free, quality, supplementary education to under-achieving children from less-privileged sections of society so that they become high-performing, confident students with a bright future. We will do this with a culture of excellence, transparency, and accountability. This will be accomplished by developing and deploying learning methods that are relevant to the environment of the children, by nurturing a team of women from every village where we are present and empowering them to transform the lives of the children in their care, and including their parents in the transformation process.

Implementation plan
At the beginning of every term, the academic consultants would train the coordinators and design the lesson plan with input from all the Coordinators. These Coordinators, in turn, go to their respective districts and train the assessors and the teachers. In the districts, in addition to first-level training for each term, refresher training for the teachers would take place after six weeks. This would enable the Coordinators to get feedback. We have Coordinators, Assistant Coordinators and Assessors. Assessors visit the centers once in a week to see whether the children have understood the concepts and teachers are in line with the lesson plan. Coordinators visit the same school once a month to further clarify that both children and the teachers are in line with Vidyarambam methodology and students have understood the concepts.
1. Academic enhancement training programs at the beginning of every term to Coordinators and Assessors.
2. The training program is conducted using various tools.
3. Minutes of the above documented after the training.
4. Coordinators to put forward their training to teachers.
5. Question papers for the diagnostic test.
6. Material checklist format to be drawn.
7. Assessor report format to be drawn.
8. Report card format for the Diagnostic test
9. Monthly review report format to be drawn
10. Follow up training to teachers at the end of 2 months.

Milestone
1. A strong foundation in fundamentals to be given to children by integrating samacheer lessons with Vidyarambam’s educational materials.
2. All primary children in target schools should be able to read / write and do basic arithmetic appropriate to the level of their age. Diagnostic test results. (Suttru form)
3. Material checklist to cross check the effective use of Vidyarambam material
4. Assessor report showing the implementation of activities by the teacher.
5. Monthly review report to show the progress
6. Material checklist to cross check the effective use of Vidyarambam material

Strategy
• Developed learning methods that are easily understandable by the children.
• Start giving support at the grass root level
• Use activity based teaching which is very well receptive
• Some of the materials developed in-house which gives more exposure
• Integrity in all aspects of work
• Excellence in everything we do
• Teamwork to achieve our mission
• Self-confidence to meet our goals
• Innovate to transform the learning experience
• Passionate about our mission

Challenges
Trained tutors may leave halfway due to various reasons like weddings, pregnancy, and transfer of job for their husbands, etc…