A one day educational event ‘IPTTA Fest – 10’ was hosted by Integrated Preschool Teachers Training Academy, at the State Gallery of Fine Arts, in Hyderabad. The fest was inaugurated by the Chief Guest Mr Anil Swarup, IAS (Retd.), Former Secretary, School Education, Government of India; Founder Chairman, Nexus of Good and author of the bestseller ‘Not Just a Civil Servant’; Madhapur. Guest of Honour Ms Sultana Moidu, a renowned early childhood education expert graced the occasion. Ms Sonal Andrews, Director and founder of IPTTA; fifty aspiring candidates graduating from IPTTA, school principals, teachers from various schools and inquisitive parents, were present on the occasion.
IPTTA-Fest – 10, had over 100 innovative teaching aids and 300 activities, conceived and created by the outgoing batch of fifty early childhood teachers from IPTTA. The creative collection for this year’s exhibition revolves around the theme, Geochrome – colours and shapes. They are presented in the form of stories, rhymes, language, math, EVS, art and craft, games and activities. These teaching aids and activities encompass the syllabus of pre-primary and up to grade 2 curriculum.
The exhibits are designed to grab the attention of students and make them learn complex and abstract concepts in a lucid and coherent way. The Aids comprise of puppets, interactive books, multi-sensorial creative techniques, live counters, takeaways etc. Each of them is used to achieve specific learning objectives to make learning interesting. IPTTA-Fest – 10, exhibition is in sync with National Educational Policy (NEP) 2020 and National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for Early Years Education.
Ms Sonal Ravi Andrews said “Through IPTTA Fest, we are creating a platform for teachers at Pre-primary and Primary level to learn and share innovative methods of teaching, which are easily replicable and within the budgetary constraints that schools have. IPTTA’s objective is to make classroom learning for pre-primary school children interesting and teaching aids are the foundation for a good learning”.
Ms Sonal Ravi Andrews added “More than 700 teachers from Hyderabad and its neighborhood, visited the exhibition to learn and share their knowledge, to evolve innovative and best practices in Early Child Education area. The exhibition was an excellent opportunity for those in teaching profession and parents to see innovative and original methods of imparting knowledge, while being able to grab the attention and get the child interested”.
She added “Every year IPTTA-Fest, brings more than a hundred teaching aids on one theme, to make every class interesting to the kid. With today’s children being overloaded with digital inputs, for them to feel and touch things will make lot of difference and that’s what teaching aids do”.
IPTTA-Fest is a unique platform for aspiring pre-primary and primary teachers studying at IPTTA to showcase their talent and knowledge acquired from the yearlong diploma program. Around thirty participants exhibited their works which were innovative, easy to comprehend for the child and could be replicated conveniently in the classroom.
