ಐದನೇ ಆವೃತ್ತಿ, ಸಂಚಿಕೆ ೭ : (Season 5, Episode 7 : The inspiring story of Kurugodu's CRP)

Ranganath hails from the Ballari district and serves as a resource person for educators in a cluster of Kurugodu taluk. He has 15 years of experience in the field of education. He also has 8 to 10 years of experience as a resource person, where he interacted with and coached many teachers across the district.

Ranganath has implemented a very successful programme to teach FLN to children in his cluster. FLN stands for Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN). FLN has many objectives. It is making learners competent in doing meaningful reading and writing by the time they enter grade 3 and develop the basic understanding and competencies related to numeracy and its related concepts among young learners till grade 2.

FLN programs are already being implemented under Nipun Bharat, one of the missions of the new National Education Policy. Here that is extended as Nipun Karnataka to implement FLN across the state.

Ranganath is working on a mission to succeed in his cluster and has demonstrated a very successful implementation so far. His efforts have helped increase the learning rate by 75% in young learners.  This made the administration extend the implementation across the taluk.

Ranganath understood the importance of motivating and educating the teachers first. As a first step, he did many subject-wise, and class-wise meetings for teachers and heard all the problems they were facing.

For over 4 months, he gave his time to chart out solutions to specific problems every 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month. He combined his knowledge and the experience of a teacher to carve the action plan.

All the kids who needed FLN training from 1 to 10th class were identified along with the subject-specific teacher. Every hour of the day was dedicated to FLN classes. This way, Mr. Ranganath used the resources at hand to successfully implement the program. He also tried to incorporate positive reinforcements in the form of award certificates to those classes and schools that successfully raised above FLN objectives.

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