Libraries in Schools – New academic year
Bookworm’s Libraries in School Program has now grown to level 4. When the Libraries in School Program was first evolved ( in 2006) it was imagined as a School Book Treasury program. A program that assumed every user ( school/ classroom) would recognise that books are a treasure and Bookworm would be the magic that […]
Gorillas, Chimps and Monkeys with Us in the Rain…
Once upon a wet Monday morning in June, Elaine and I hurtled off to our first LiS (Libraries in Schools) session at St. Thomas Boys Primary High School in Aldona. We were hurtling in our red Bookworm van, because we were going to be fifteen minutes late for Flavia and Isa, our resource teachers […]
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Teacher Training
Reading is a basic skill. Learning to read and reading to learn is how we understand more about our selves and our world. The process of reading is a complex one, the methods are varied and the quest to support all children in this process is an upper most vision of everyone engaged in education. […]
Workshop at Auxilium School, Carona, Aldona
Aldona is fast becoming a village that is becoming familiar to me and my tyre tracks! I was back this week, but at Carona and the well kept campus of Auxilium Primary School, a school managed by the Salesian sisters. It was so heartening to find that Sr. Antonetta was ready for the workshop, her […]
Story telling at St. Thomas Primary School Aldona
A bright April morning and together with my friend Bindu who is visiting Goa, we drive to Aldona. Aldona is a large village by Goa standards. I have come to understand that Aldona is also a village where its residents want to enrich it here and now. This kind of a sentiment brought Isa to […]
Bookworms attending 3rd International English Language Teacher Educator Conference
From Bookworm Megha Gulati and Krystal Cardoso set off to Hyderabad to attend TEC ( Teacher Educators Conference) . This year the theme was The English Language Teacher Education in a Diverse Environment. Both of them learnt, read more about Megha’s report and Krystal’s report.
Connections between Teacher Educator Conference, Hyderabad and Chimbel, Goa
With nine months of MOP under my belt and an enthusiastic mother worm pushing me forward, Krystal and I embarked on a 14 hour bus ride to Hyderabad to attend and absorb from the British Council’s Teacher Educator Conference 2013. In the swankiest corner of Hyderabad, deep amid mega construction projects, engineers everywhere you look […]
Team Reflections
Bookworm team’s monthly March meeting began with a round of reflections. The team felt individually in their capacity of work within the larger organisation that Bookworm needs to incorporate systems for better operations. The growth of programs and possibilities of many more demand better systems of accounting, reporting, communication, financial management, HR and accountability. These […]
Bookworm in Goa doot
Bookworm is featured in Goa doot 17th February 2013. Thanks to Ramdas Kelkar.