Themes covered in EPTAF so far

Classroom Management: Theory and Practice
This was our first action research in our own classrooms. the varied kinds of classrooms were used for this research, MCD school class I, Private school class KG, I, II, III. This informed us about how and what kinds of rules can help us in managing our classes. We also felt the importance of regular follow up of the rules that were democratically created with the learners. We spent around five months on this theme.

Understanding children's art
We wanted to know how can we understand art from a child's perspective and how should we respond to it. this was an interesting exercise. we first of all read Deviprasad's book, "Art: the basis of education". Then we got samples of our learners art and anlaysed them. We spent around two-three months on this them.

Emergent literacy
Sonce most of us are in teaching in the primary school and also taking language classes so we felt it is important to understand how children learn language. For this we have used readings by Frank Smith, Teale and Sulzby and few others. We are still working on this theme.

During this we also had a screening of the film "Kairee".