Page 54 - National Seminar on Quality Improvement in School February 27-28, 2020

VENEETA NARULA
PRINCIPAL
KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA INS HAMLA
MARVEROAD, MALAD (WEST) MUMBAI-400095

Kendriya Vidyalaya INS HAMLA comes under Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
New Delhi – an autonomous body of MHRD and is affiliated to CBSE, mainly
catering to the needs of children of defence personnel and transferrable central
government employees. The school head has played a major role in creating
awareness among the students regarding environmental degradation and hence
the school strives for achieving a clean environment. With focus on connecting
class room with outside world and taking teaching learning process outside
the class, the school head succeeded in inculcating lifelong values amongst the
students. The nukkad natak ,visit to the beach to teach, Energy dance, mangrove
cleaning, beach cleaning, swachhata pakhwada etc are new fun ways of learning.
A major initiation to reduce waste was undertaken by the school and 280 kg
of manure is made quarterly by bio composting 1000 kg of dead leaves, thus
preventing the burning of decomposable waste. The Vidyalaya has been an
institution trying consistently to achieve a zero waste goal by Reducing, Reusing
and Recycling the waste in the premises.

SADHANA BHALLA
PRINCIPAL
MIRA MODEL SCHOOL, NEW DELHI

The special characteristic of the school is its engagement with children through
its Early intervention program for improvement in learning. The main purpose of
this has been to assist struggling learners in Grade 1 and rule out identification of
false cases as students with ‘Learning Disability’ in older classes. With increasing
diversity in classrooms, there are many students who do not exhibit learning
at the same pace as most other children in the class. These children show less
academic engagement in classrooms, show unsatisfactory grades, and in many
instances evidence behavioral difficulties. Defined broadly as ‘Struggling
Learners’, this group of students encompasses varying needs including issues
about Learning Disability, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism,
being first generation learners, familial disorganization, and acculturation needs.
The school’s major intervention lies in taking steps to engage the parents of the
struggling students to become integral resource persons/trained personnel. The
teachers also hold classes for parents every Friday on how to teach and support
the program at home.

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