Azim Premji Foundation in partnership with Government of Karnataka and UNICEF is implementing the Child Friendly School (Bala Snehi Shale) concept in Shorapur block of Yadgir district in Karnataka. The programme has begun with the training of Educational Supervisors and Head Teachers in the block

A total of 22 Education Supervisors and 299 Head Teachers were trained in four batches. The first two batches consisted mostly of senior Head Teachers with about 25 years of service and the rest consisted of youngsters with 5-10 years of service. The Academics and Pedagogy team of Azim Premji Foundation developed the training package and also functioned as Resource Persons to train the first two batches. Training in the remaining batches were facilitated by persons identified from among the Block Resource Persons and Education Coordinators of Shorapur block.

The key elements of the training package were:

• Establish the development needs
• Historical perspective of Education in India
• Criticality of the role of the Head Teachers
• Evolving a vision for the school
• Embracing change in the current environmental realities
• Successful change implementation through effective leadership

The programme has helped the Education Supervisors and Head Teachers to look at education from a different perspective in the background of changes occurring across the world.

Most of the participants were very happy with the training and were keen to try it out in their schools.

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