The first initiative of working with the Government system was
undertaken under the aegis of the Adoption Program in 1994 in which
the Bodh pedagogy, curriculum and assessment was fully implemented in
ten government schools of Jaipur. Under this program, government
schoolteachers in selected schools were identified and trained and
additional Bodh teachers recruited. One Bodh teacher was expected to
work on a full time basis with one or more Bodh trained government
school teachers in each class. Teachers were supposed to move up along
with the class and provide inputs to the class. A total of 785
children were covered under this program. The program had its
limitations in as much as the government failed to provide the
adequate number of teachers it had committed itself to at the start of
the program; frequent transfers of trained teachers was another issues
of concern. Its achievements may be said to include:
Establishing
that Bodh pedagogy can be implemented within the mainstream government
education system and result in learning of comparable quality.
Teachers of
Government schools can, given systemic freedom, support and appropriate
training, work for quality in education resulting in perceptible
improvement in school climate, teaching strategy and parental involvement.
Improvement of
the general appreciation of the program and growing demand for its
expansion, resulting in the larger experiment of the Janshala Program.
