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Tagore Shikshan Sansthan,
Alwar (Rajasthan) has been a successful partner of Smile Foundation,
having taken up the crusade of spreading quality education
among the needy children of Rajasthan. The continuing ‘Remedial
Education Project’ is being upgraded this year with
renewed objectives.
The Project
The ‘Remedial Education Project’
is located in Jodia village in Alwar district of Rajasthan.
The upgraded project will now cover 75 children, between the
age group of 4 and 14, from the weaker section of the society.
The children get education between class III and X.
Five dedicated teachers have been engaged
in the education centre, who have undergone training under
Smile Foundation’s ‘Quality Education Programme’.
The special training programme include numerous modules and
methodologies on how to make teaching as well as learning
subjects like Mathematics, Science and English easier and
effective.
The school, named ‘Tagore Model School’,
run by the non-profit organization has been recognized by
Department of Education, Government of Rajasthan since 1990.
Regular examinations are conducted and the result sheets are
forwarded to the Inspector of Schools.
The school campus had once an open (unmanned)
post office where teachers as well as students can purchase
postal items and deposit the amount in a packet on their own.
Besides, it had got an unmanned stationery store where students
could buy items at reasonable rates and again deposit the
money on their own.
Mr. Bhagwat Prasad Sharma, former teacher
with the state government and the crusader behind the organization,
has been recognized several times for his contribution in
value-based teachings. Mr. Sharma, won District Award for
the Best Teacher twice in his teaching career. Subsequently
he was conferred with the State Award from the Governor of
Rajasthan and later on the National Award by the President
of India.
Now the school has four salaried and trained
teachers, besides Mr. Sharma, which not only provides value-added
education but also moral science and life education.
Tagore Shikshan Sansthan
Tagore Shikshan Sansthan, is a registered
non-governmental organization, coming in to being as a result
of a retired but untiring teacher (Shri Bhagwat Prasad Sharma).
He was been deeply anguished by all-round decline in values,
level of commitment among teachers and students alike and
also enabling environment, leading to distressing decline
in quality of teaching, in general. However, he had successfully
been teaching in a government middle school as a principal
during his working days with the government. Then also he
practiced innovative methods to inculcate good values among
students and teachers alike, besides creating new academic
facilities like setting up a library and a scientific laboratory.
Mr. Sharma, after retirement from his teaching
job, remained untired. He opened a primary school in year
1989 in his village Jodia in Alwar District of Rajasthan and
naming it “Tagore Model School” under the auspices
of Tagore Shikshan Sansthan- the organization he subsequently
got registered the same year as an NGO.
The school, initially starting with a few
children, is run from his residence-cum-mandir complex in
a covered Verandah (corridor). The school got recognition
from Department of Education, Government of Rajasthan in the
year 1990-1991.
Initially, with the help of a salaried teacher,
besides Mr. Sharma himself, children are taught Hindi, English,
Mathematics, Social Studies and General & Moral Science.
Result sheets from each periodic examination used to be sent
to the Inspector of Schools.
Tagore Shikshan Sansthan has been supported
by Smile Foundation for running its Remedial Education Project
providing special attention and education to needy children
who are enrolled in government schools of Jodia village but
are found weak in study or slow in learning.
Special Focus
Children will get quality education through
specially trained teachers. In addition to the regular curriculum,
Moral Science as well as practical life education will be
taught. The village children will be groomed with an aim to
be achievers in their life!
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