SAIIER 2014:Baking English
 Awareness Through the Body |
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 Child Protection Service |
| Baking English | ||
Objective
Baking English is a project of TLC that aims to provide an innovative approach to the study of the English language. The project aims to provide children with an experience where the learning of English is alive, spontaneous and relevant to what they are directly experiencing through practical, hands-on work; to take the study of English out of textbooks and worksheets and into a real-life situation, providing children with an opportunity to learn from context, with joy, and allowing for content to flow from spontaneous, real-life situations, rather than from a prescribed order set out in textbooks and predetermined syllabi.
Description of project
11 children attended the baking English classes during the last academic year. The children integrated well into the system of learning through a non-conventional medium. They covered the assigned English curriculum and attained a certain degree of proficiency in the area of baking.
They produced a very fine recipe book as their final project. In addition, they prepared the refreshments for the school’s open house this year. Two of the older students accompanied the teacher on a baking training session in a hotel in Chennai where they served as apprentices and were very successful.
Some essential equipment was procured using the grant allocated to the project. This equipment enabled the number of children participating in the classes to increase, and enabled better efficiency in guiding the classes.
The classes were held with 3 different groups, once a week, for the duration of the entire school year.
