NEET designs and implements capacity enhancement programs for educators through workshops, exposure visits and mentorship programs on teaching language, setting up vibrant libraries and critical thinking.

APPROACHES-

I. Workshops-

. English Accelerated learning Programme: This programme helps teachers to teach children with exposure to English pick up the basic skills of speaking, reading, writing English within a span of 6 to 8 months. By providing participants with a package of activities, worksheets and curricular materials like flashcards, description cards and word charts, demonstrating its usages, enables them to teach basic English skills. 

. Assamese Accelerated Learning Programme: This programme helps teachers in teaching children the basics of Assamese in the form of a bridge course. By exploring the current theories of language learning, it enables the participants to create contextual curricular materials like stories, worksheets, flashcards based on the balanced approach of language learning. It helps them teach language as a process of meaning making that takes into account children’s immediate surroundings. 

.Teaching SCERT English Text-books at Primary level:  This programme focuses on three critical aspects of teaching English – objectives of English teaching and learning, pedagogy of English language and assessment of English language pedagogy. By demonstrating the usages of different curricular materials: picture-books, story-boards, flash cards and enabling participants to create curricular materials and detailed lesson plans on the chapters in English SCERT Text-books between Class I-VIII, it helps teachers teach in a child-friendly and learner centric manner.

. Teaching SCERT Assamese Text-books at Lower Primary Level:  This programme focuses on the objective of Assamese teaching and learning, pedagogy of Assamese language and assessment of Assamese language pedagogy. By demonstrating the usages of curricular materials like picture-books, description cards, charts, flash cards for SCERT Assamese textbooks of class I- V, it enables participants to create them and teach children in an effective manner.

.Creating Vibrant Libraries: This workshop provides participants with philosophical perspectives and pedagogical support to enable them to set up vibrant libraries that encourage meaningful engagement with books and reading practices. 

. Creative expressions and critical thinking: This workshop designed on the educational ideas of Paulo Freire, enables teachers to develop skills of creative self expression, confidence to express one’s ideas in a group and problem solving skills.

II. Exposure Visits: We arrange exposure visits to our library to give educators a glimpse of the processes and functioning of a vibrant library.

III. Mentorship Programme: We provide mentorship support after conducting workshops with  grassroot organizations in the form of onsite support visits and online monthly meetings. Through the onsite visits, we observe the implementation of their learning from the workshops, discuss their challenges in teaching and course correct their teaching methodologies. Through regular online monthly meetings we discuss the progress of their implementation and the forms in which we can support their language programme.