Conclusion of the Reading Skills Workshop for the Primary Schools’ Heads and Tibetan Teachers.
Dharamshala: A 3-day Reading Skills Workshop for the Primary Schools’ Heads and Tibetan Teachers organised by the Department of Education, Central Tibetan Administration, concluded successfully on 21 June 2024.
The workshop was held at CHTS, Sarah from 19 to 21 June with the total 30 participants consisting of 8 Primary Schools’ Heads and 22 Primary Tibetan Teachers. The Principal and Vice Principal of CHTS, Sarah graciously attended the inauguration and closing ceremony of the 3-day workshop.
This workshop is adapted from the Reading Helpers Program, specifically to help those students who struggle in reading Tibetan at the Primary level. Through this workshop, participants are encouraged to learn and extend reading support to students one-on-one in a structured yet enjoyable environment.
Participants were introduced to a range of reading strategies and activities by first identifying the student who needed help and then apply the strategies to individual students or in small groups to improve their reading.
Some of the activities carried out in this workshop are:
- Shared reading Reading improvement through audio book followed by Bingo game
- Promotion of Read Aloud
- Reading through dominos game
- Guided drawing
- Reading through scanning of newspaper or story book Introduction of wide range of children’s literature.
- Resource person’s talk on the strategies of improving reading skills through activities by TCV Tibetan Mentors, Mingchung and Ngawang Jinpa.
- Resource Person’s talk on how to teach reading to students by Passang Tsering, Tibetan Teacher of STS Petoen.
- Meeting and Q & A with DoE’s children’s literature author (Tseing Palzom), Phayul Sheje Bangzoe’s editor (Choenyi Dolma) and Tibetan Textbook editor (Tenzin Pal).
The participants are presented with a set of children’s books and flex charts for vocabulary activities to encourage them to read children’s story books and to do more activities with students.
Further the participants are given the post-workshop assignment to identify students with reading difficulties from their school and apply the strategies learned from this workshop. In July, the participants will give online presentation of their assignment and share it with the rest of the Participants.
Apart from that, Sonam Gangsang from the Department of Education with the support of 3 mentors; Tenzin Dolma, a.k.a Donlha from STS Mewoen Tsuglag Petoen School, Dawa Tsamchoe from TCV Chauntra and Phuntsok Dolker from TCV Lower jointly facilitated and coordinated the workshop.
The Reading Skills workshop is a TSRR program, funded by USAID.
-Report filed by Department of Education, CTA
During the closing program of the workshop.
Reading Session led by Dawa Tsamchoe, Tibetan teacher of TCV Chauntra.
Reading Session led by Donlha, Tibetan teacher of Petoen School.
Reading session led by Phuntsok Dolkar, English teacher of TCV Lower.
Shared Reading Session led by Sonam Gangsang.
