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Fig: English Corner for learning one new sentence every day in every class.

2. Case #: Inculcating Moral Values in the children

Inculcating moral values in the children has become a major concern today. Sang Tshalamthang
Government Secondary School in East Sikkim was also facing challenges in inculcating good
values. Hence, during a monthly staff meeting, it was decided that the school will adopt some
innovative methods to make students learn good values.

In this regard, under the weekend home work the students were asked to spent sufficient time
with their parents and grandparents at home. They were further asked to listen to the good stories
from their grandparents. In the week days, students were encouraged to share their stories in the

evening assembly; out of which the story with good moral was appreciated by the Headmaster.

In this way, students were not only prevented from mixing up with unruly children at the
weekends, but also a culture of learning good things from the parents and grandparents was
developed.

These days, it has become a practice to share good stories during the school assembly in which
not only the students but also the Headmaster and the teachers take part equally.

3. Case #: Zero Investment Initiative for making- Attractive Classrooms

One of the challenges for the School Head was beautification of the classrooms. With the limited
funds under SSA and RMSA, it was not possible to make all the classrooms colorful. We got 2-3
containers of left-over paints to the school. During the free time, I started to paint the walls of a
room meant for the Kindergartens. When the walls were ready with the background paints, we
(me and my staff) started drawing the word pictures. By now, other teachers had also started to
bring left over paints from their homes and made the possible contributions in the form of left
over paints or manual labor for the painting work. Ultimately, a colorful room for Kindergarten
was ready with almost no extra investment.

This particular idea clicked to most of the class teachers who then started to request every subject
teachers to contribute left over paints for the beautification purpose. As a result, many of our
classrooms have got beautifully painted. Senior classes have even covered their outer walls with
beautiful quotes and other grammatical uses.

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