One of the core components of our work is professional development of teachers and teacher educators in early grades through a variety of long and short duration blended distance learning programs on early literacy and multilingual education.
These courses are aimed at improving language teaching practices of teachers, building
their capacity in multi-lingual education practices, and equipping resource persons and
master trainers to provide effective support to teachers.
This is LLF’s flagship professional development course which aims at providing participants with an improved conceptual understanding and practical skills of teaching language and literacy in early grades.
teacher educators
teachers
others
This course is primarily meant for cluster/block level resource persons to enable them to provide effective academic support to teachers through trainings, school visits and monthly meetings. In the next two years 2,460 teachers and academic resource persons would complete the 3-month course.
The 1 month course is designed to focus on specific topics for participants who have good overall knowledge of early language and literacy, but need deeper understanding of specific themes of language and literacy in early grades. First batch of Reading Comprehension and Changemakers Course completed in 2017. In the next two years 900 teachers/teacher educators would complete various short term courses.
The Multilingual Education Course aims to develop conceptual understanding about effective approaches and strategies for multilingual education. Participants who complete this course would be able to support children who come from a different home language background to develop strong oral language and literacy skills in the school language by first building a foundation in the home language
LLF signed an MOU with the Department of Elementary Education, State Government of Haryana to provide technical support in the recently launched state-wide NIPUN Haryana (FLN Mission). Under the mission, LLF will support the state in the academic workstreams including curriculum & content, capacity building of academic personnel, teacher mentoring, and assessments. Simultaneously, LLF is running a direct school-level intervention project across 7 districts of Haryana since 2019. The project involves the field-based implementation of a learning improvement program for early grades in these districts. Through this project, LLF is directly working to improve the teaching-learning practices of 6,206 teachers across 3,231 schools to improve the early language learning outcomes of 1.31 lakh students.
LLF signed a 3-year MOU with Rajasthan Council of Secondary Education (RCSE) in February, 2018 for developing teacher capacity and implementation of a multilingual program in selected government schools in Dungarpur and Banswada districts. The project aims to develop a systematic approach for home to school language transition and practices for developing strong language and literacy skills in Hindi by the end of grade 2 and improvement in children’s learning outcomes in Hindi. It includes a study research component.
LLF has signed an MoU with the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) and Samagra Shiksha in building capacities of teachers and teacher educators on early language and literacy development (ELL) and multilingual education (MLE). LLF is implementing a multi-pronged strategy that includes continuous professional development activities for teachers and teacher educators (SCERT/DIET faculty, BRCCs, CACs) through short-term and long-term blended courses, conducting training & workshops, and Implementing programs in schools to improve language learning outcomes of class-1 & class-2 students. To address the issues that have emerged out of the prevailing diversified language situation, LLF is also supporting the state government in the development of Multilingual Education (MLE) based activities. After launching of “NIPUN Bharat” guideline, LLF is also supporting to state govt. in planning and execution of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) Mission in Chhattisgarh. Through these programs, more than 35,000 teachers and teacher educators will have improved teaching-learning process.
LLF is the technical partner for Early language and literacy in the Gujarat Education Coalition (GEC) aimed to strengthen the Foundational Literacy and Numeracy in government schools of Gujarat. LLF is supporting the Department of Education (DoE), Gujarat Council for Education Research and Training (GCERT) in revising the content of grades 1 and 2 keeping the principles of Early Language and Literacy in focus. GEC (Gujarat Education Coalition) is the coalition of four partner organizations (Central Square Foundation, Reach to Teach, Akshara Foundation, and LLF) working with the Gujarat govt. Education Department with the objective to improve the Foundation Literacy and Numeracy across the state in govt. schools. In 2019, LLF partnered as one of the technical partner for language pedagogy, content development, training and classroom observation under the GEC for the Foundation Literacy.
LLF is working with the Government of Uttar Pradesh to support Mission Prerna and the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) for providing technical assistance for FLN (Foundational Literacy & Numeracy) in the state. LLF has developed Teaching Learning Materials (Conversation Charts, Story Posters, Poem Posters, graded storybooks, workbooks, and Teachers Guide for grades 1 to 3. LLF is building capacities of teachers and teacher educators on early language and literacy development (ELL) that includes conducting professional development courses for teachers and teacher educators (SRG, SCERT/DIET faculty, ARPs, and teachers). Through this project, 4,196 teachers and teacher educators have gone through the courses to improve the teaching-learning process. Apart from support to Mission Prerna, LLF is working in Varanasi as Demo Model to demonstrate effective FLN implementation in a block through an intensive effort with the academic system for significant SLO improvement and to demonstrate systems approach at the district level to improve administrative functions on goal setting, academic data systems, and accountability.
The Prarambhik Bhasha Shikshan Karyakram in the state of Odisha is a Technical Partnership with OSEPA (Odisha School Education Programme Authority ) for Foundational Literacy and Language learning in grades 1 and grade 2. It is a first of it’s kind of an intervention for LLF with a state for state - wide implementation across all Elementary schools in the State . A 4 year MoU between LLF and Department of School and Mass Education Odisha was signed in April 2020. The Programme will be launched under the banner of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy which is a current national priority. Dedicated teachers for instruction in these grades have been notified by the State for implementing the programme in schools and will undergo a structured online training programme.
It includes self-learning material in the form of handouts, classroom practice
videos and activity handbooks. Including themes like Oral Language
development, phonological awareness, decoding, Reading strategies,
Reading comprehension, writing etc. It can help trainers and resource
persons to conduct workshops and teachers’ independently on early language and literacy and increase impact.
Simple, concept related, practice oriented 4-6 pager handouts on various theme related topics.
High quality videos with relevant
oral explanation, showing strategies
and activities in a real government
school setting.
A Collection of activities arranged skill-wise/ level-wise that can be implemented in the classroom.
Bhasha ki Duniya is an online learning portal which serve as a platform for LLF's former course participants/ alumni to
connect with each other across different states. It provides an ecosystem for continued learning and professional
development for educators around Early Language & Literacy and Multilingual Education.
Curated content related to language teaching and learning
Online discussion
forums
Literacy related activities and competitions
Meetings and workshops
Platform for interactions
with peers
Sharing of experiences and learning by participants
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