Project – related events

Face-to-face Public Events

Other Workshops

9 March, 2023: “Porte Shekha, Shikhte Para” (Learn to Read and Read to Learn): A discussion was held at Chhatra Kalyan Vidyapith in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, in collaboration with a group of schoolteachers in Swarupnagar. Several teachers from primary schools and higher secondary schools participated in the discussion on how to enhance reading skills of students who, according to various studies, experienced learning losses during the period of pandemic-induced school closure.

17 December, 2022: Learning beyond the Classroom – Two community walks outside the school campus were organised for students to experience the diversity of cultures in the neighbourhood. One was in Tiretta Bazar, Kolkata to introduce the children to the culture, and establishments of the Chinese-Indian community, and the other to Nan Soon Church, Tiretta Bazar, Kolkata for an exhibition on the food, culture, and art and craft of the Chinese community.

7 & 8 May, 2022: Two-day residential writing workshop – Margin e Lekha (Writing in the Margins) – was organised to help and encourage marginalised young people to improve their writing skills; at Kalyani, Nadia district.

6 & 7 December, 2021: Two-day residential writing workshop – Margin e Lekha (Writing in the Margins) – was organised to help and encourage marginalised young people to improve their writing skills; at Durgapur, Paschim Bardhaman district.

13 June, 2019: Preparation for a Mathematics Workshop – This meeting conducted at the Calcutta Orphanage School was a preliminary planning session involving primary school-teachers for organising a Mathematics workshop later.

07 June 2019: Criteria for Evaluation – This workshop for working primary school-teachers was conducted at the Calcutta Orphanage School and elicited good response from the teaching community. It was focused on visualizing and implementing student-centred schemes for proper evaluation.

28 & 29 November, 2018: Report Writing Workshop – This two-day event was organised along with Shiksha Alochona in Baduria, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal. It was attended by 15 teachers from the Kolkata circle, the Sarupnagar circle, the Baduria North circle and the Khardaha circle. The workshop aimed at empowering school teachers to write meaningful progress reports.

26 & 27 November, 2018: Using Teaching and Learning Materials (TLM) – This workshop for school-teachers was organised at Jhargram Primary School to enable them to think in a creative manner and use TLM tools as part of their regular instructional methodology in order to make learning more enjoyable and easy to grasp for primary school students. A total of 40 participants from Jhargram, Purba Medinipur and Paschim Medinipur took part in this two-day event.

31 March, 2018: The West Bengal Teachers’ Association (WBTA), a state-level body of teachers, organised a meeting to discuss the state’s syllabus and curriculum, the appointment of experts to form a syllabus committee, systems of evaluation and examination and the importance of fostering creativity. Pratichi representatives participated in an advisory capacity while nearly a hundred teachers from the district were in attendance.

18 February, 2018: Using StoryWeaver Texts to Facilitate a Reading Culture – This workshop for primary school-teachers was organised by Pratichi Institute in association with Shiksha Alochona and Pratham Books, and participants from 13 districts of West Bengal attended the session. The issues discussed were the importance of reading and how the culture of reading could be incorporated within the classroom. StoryWeaver, “a platform that hosts stories in languages from all across India – and beyond” provided the technical knowhow.