The 5 Qs of MGML Methodology

Focus Areas for Quality Interventions

The focus of all the endeavours of RIVER has been:
a. Quality in Class Room Practices.
b. Quality in Teaching Learning Materials.
c. Quality in Teachers' Training.
d. Quality in on the Job Support.
e. Quality in Community and School linkage.

Core Strategies for Achieving Quality in Education

Improved classroom interaction:

• Introduction of a graded curriculum which sets learning tasks along a continuum

• Supplementing the text books with interesting self-learning materials to make learning individualized, child-centered and interactive

• Bridge attainment gaps in children so that all children achieve mastery of appropriate learning levels

• Improved teacher support systems through constant monitoring and guidance

Improved teacher commitment and involvement:

• Development of teaching/learning material through teacher participation
• Enhancing teachers creativity and competency by ensuring all teachers have a say in developing, implementing and reviewing material produced
• Development of transparent monitoring and evaluation tools to ensure accountability

Programme for multigrade teaching:

• Development of material that is locally appropriate
• Adaptation of an innovative curriculum
• Development of a good learning environment

Teacher training:

• Formulate clear guidelines and objectives for multigrade classroom
• Develop in-service teacher training programmes
• Develop a Core of child centered multigrade teacher trainers who can be mobilized to train other teachers

Establish a teacher support system:

• Provide better supervision
• Provide a school based mechanism for regular meetings of teachers for sharing experiences
• Provide on the job support to strengthen the teaching

Enriching Village Commons:

• Encourage communities to donate Land and labour at the time of setting up the school
• Barren wasteland to be converted into a green public space, providing fuel and fodder
• Schools to practice water harvesting, herbal gardening, and use of solar energy

Community Ownership:

• Empowering Mother's Committees to monitor progress of children manage the mid-day meal and organize health camps
• Involve Mothers' in writing stories in the local dialect to be collected and used in the language curriculum.
• Fostering Traditional folk arts through puppet-shows, dance, music, art and other activities.
• Ensuring involvement of the entire village in annual activities like 'Metric Mela' - a community maths fest and environment surveys.