Trainings

Kakshyalaya believes classrooms provide a safe and creative haven, where students acquire meaningful, age-appropriate and skill-based education to become responsible and pro-active citizens and life-long learners. Kakshyalaya strives to improve the quality of education in rural Nepal by serving communities, teachers and children.

When it comes to classroom education, we believe that teachers are the scaffolding that can bolster student learning. We train teachers so they can model and demonstrate the different aspects of learning with their students for they learn through observation and experience.

Kakshyalaya specializes in training workshops and activities that help students of community schools of rural Nepal engage in authentic and meaningful experiential curriculum and activities nested in their school communities. Each year the organization adds value to its training concepts by including varied discipline in order to make the workshops and activities interesting and engaging for teachers. Along with annually held Kitabikiro art and language workshops, we specialize in the following proven phases of workshops and activities.

PHASE I

Nepali Children’s Books for Effective Literacy Instruction

It’s an unfortunate fact that students in rural Nepal don’t have access to other books other than coursebooks. Kakshyalaya not only provides students with literature books in Nepali language and corner library, the organization also educates the teachers on the benefits of reading aloud to young students everyday through a series of workshops and activities. The following are some other highlights of the training.

  • Practice reading aloud and understand research on the benefits of children’s literature for children’s literacy development.
  • Explore different activities like: putting teachers in children’s shoes and recalling their last meaningful conversation with students if they had any. 
  • Understanding what makes good children’s literature books and the importance of illustrations.

PHASE II

Community Based Social Studies

The Phase II training revolves around the theme of understanding that social studies is at the core of every interaction between people and environment and use the experience to create appropriate social studies-based learning module for their respective schools. Some of the activities of the training include,

  • Visit to a local industry maybe a saw mill, and the community forest as source for lumber.
  • Brainstorming and discussing ideas for creating learning modules – construction of rural motorways, weaving, rice mill, bee-keeping and others.
  • Two schools developed beekeeping as social studies bases learning module.

PHASE III

Experiential Science-Based Learning

The organic connection between communities and the land has somewhat eroded as more and more land and forest are tempted by the commercial purpose and use harmful chemical fertilizers to produce fast and more. The objectives of the training – firstly, from the field trip was to understand all human consumption especially, food comes from nature and surroundings; and secondly, to try to create an agro-ecological system in school yard. Some of the highlights include,

  • A field trip to a local organic farm to explore and understand what it means to be 100 % organic.
  • Practice making raised beds and fence using locally available materials.
  • Planting a fruit tree at the school premise in an effort to create an agro-ecological school yard.

TESTIMONIALS

Ever since participating in the training, I have been reading aloud to my son and daughter every evening and they have been re-telling the stories to their friends at school

Pashupati Pandey

Resource Person at Shivapuri Rural-Municipality

With each read aloud and with each story, students are learning about new characters and feelings and are able to share their own feelings with friends.

Sarita Sapkota

Teacher at Jana Jyoti Primary School, Panauti Municipality

Our school encourages regular illustration among students so they can turn shortcomings into strength.

Jassu Khadka

Teacher at Amar Primary School, Shivapuri Rural-Municipality

The beehives in the school have introduced our children to one of the most amazing inspects on the planet and learning about the bees will help the children educate parents who are mostly farmers about using natural resources for farming so the bees are extracting nectar from natural sources.

Rina Tamang

Teacher at Lali Gurans Primary School, Panauti Municipality