ieee teacher in service program – india t l prasanna venkatesan chair, tisp india committee...
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IEEE Teacher in Service Program – India
T L Prasanna Venkatesan
Chair , TISP India CommitteeMember , IEEE Educational Activities Board
TISP Symposium , Tampa , Florida19th May 2012
History
TISP Volunteer workshop in Hyderabad – Trained around 100 volunteers from 4 major IEEE Sections
Follow up teacher training workshops by volunteers– Hyderabad – 4 Workshops = reaching 100 teachers– Kerala – 2 Workshops = reaching 60 teachers– Bangalore – 4 Workshops = reaching 100 teachers
Science clubs established in 2 shcools in Bangalore
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Broader Organization
TISP India Committee – Established 2012
– Reports to R10 Educational Activities Committee and provide quarterly reporting
– Constitution approved by R10 Director– Chair appointed by R10 EAC– Op-com members appointer by Chair– Representatives appointed by Section Chairs– Webmaster– Invited external member ( preferably a school teacher )– Other coopted members approved by voting members
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How we are organized
Individual TISP Committees in Bangalore , Kerala and Hyderabad Sections reporting to India committee via section representativeSections further have geographically distributed teams in few districtsMost of these are based out of IEEE Entities in Universities ~ IEEE Student BranchesSuch entities put together teacher training workshopsIts working , but not ready to scale
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Where do we get money from ?
We are still young – EAB is still baby sitting usBut not any more !! ;( ;( Our section teams have managed to get budget for their TISP Activities – USD 1000 per sectionNo way near to scaling
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What do we want to do ???
Make every child in India learn science by building engineering models
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TISP in India
Teacher training and follow up workshops
– Train teachers on Hands on Training Activities– Host follow up workshops in schools– Lead and assist teachers to a point from where they are
comfortable hosting these workshops by themselves
Make it part of School Curriculum / Evaluation methods
– India education ministry urges schools to make continuous evaluation part of agenda
– Schools and teachers need a reason to take it up . Not just based on interest
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TISP Centre of Excellence
A group of IEEE members / Engineers interested in carrying out TISP ActivityGroup part of a corporate organization , university , IEEE SB , or just a group of interested individualsHave a clear plan of action to host teacher training workshops, follow up workshops and sustain activity for minimum one yearSometimes they have a funds from parent organizationIEEE Supports with Volunteer training , funds (more later) , brand etcInterest from volunteers in couple of corporate and university leadership
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Plans for 2012
Hyderabad Section to liaison with Kendriya Vidyala schools in Andhra Pradesh state to deliver training for teachers from 50 SchoolsBangalore Section to deliver training to all teachers from Tumkur School district in cooperation with the State Government School departmentKerala Section to host TISP Week – 6 SB’s , 60 SchoolsMany more workshops planned in association with few SB’s and Universities
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Finances
Crucial to achieve our goalsAccount with IEEE Foundation– IEEE TISP India Committee resolved to set up an account
with IEEE Foundation– Seek funds from Individual / Corporate donors to fund India
wide efforts in to this account
Continue to request money from Section budget annuallyMinimal opportunity to get money from R10 budget
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Metric
Number of students known to have developed engineering model
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And our names !!
Prakash SudhirNamith NajeebPadmaprabodh AmbaleRashmi AmbaleRanjit Nair
TISP Committee– Prakash Sudhir ( Vice Chair ) , Namith Najeeb
( Treasurer ) , K V Karthik ( Secretary ) , Manjunath Iyer ( Bangalore ) , Sabarinath Pillai ( Kerala ) , Prashant ( Hyderabad ) , Vijay ( Webmaster ) , Prasanna ( Chair )
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