Working with schools

Eklavya works with schools that are interested in improving their educational standards.

The basic thrust lies in developing learner-centred subject content and teaching practices. At the elementary level, content and teaching is structured around the natural and social environment of the learner. Such an approach requires that assessment of learning outcomes goes beyond traditional testing for rote learning.

Changes in classroom practices also mean changes in the way teachers are trained. The teacher is the pivot on which innovation hinges so unless teachers are motivated and mentally equipped to face the demands of the new teaching methodologies, all innovation will fall by the roadside.

The school management must also approve and internalise the changes, otherwise the necessary climate for innovation cannot be maintained. Approval means going beyond merely providing the required infrastructural and financial inputs to evolving a new understanding of what ‘good’ education is.

Eklavya has devised programmes to address each of these issues. If you want to know more about these school-based programmes, click on the links below: