INCD, with an attempt to improve deplorable conditions of learning among students, initiated a blended learning intervention in the school in Palla Road, Burdwan. Our field level coordinators mobilised community level students, in-service teachers and parents. After several motivational workshops, we started to provide students from class I and II supplementary tuitions to impart quality education among underprivileged groups. In the intervention, INCD employed local community members as coordinators and assistant teachers in the rural classroom, where students mainly learned English, Mathematics, Grandparenting and Music.

INCD has conducted blended interventions to five in-service school teachers of Bagaria, Diamond Harbour. Throughout the sessions, the adult learners were encouraged to communicate in English, where we used social media platforms like whatsapp as a supplementary tool to sustain informal communication and learning between adult learners of Bagaria and expert teachers. Apart from providing online live teaching learning sessions, assistance through phone call, email and WhatsApp group discussion were also provided by INCD Team.

INCD, in collaboration with SIRG, conducted an academic intervention in Vidya Tirtha Shishu Niketan in Pailan. Under this initiative, we organised students studying in the primary section and taught them both academic and non-academic subjects. We provided the offline teaching assistance to the students and in collaboration with SIRG, also connected these students with experienced teachers from the city remotely through an online learning platform. The students studied academic English and an informal subject named “Grand parenting” from two retired teachers remotely. Children were taught through songs and videos and were taught stories from Bengali fables. By education making interactive and interesting, INCD wishes to create an educated tomorrow.

INCD, in collaboration with SIRG, has also conducted blended learning initiatives at Kalicharanpur, South 24 paraganas. We have imparted quality education to students belonging to class I. The students have been taught English Grammar, Literature and conversations in English. Competency based curriculum was provided to the teacher along with relevant videos which were shared with the students. INCD also connected students of Kalicharanpur with urban-based expert teachers, who taught using audio-visual teaching aids.

INCD made an instrumental achievement by identifying Chandanpiri Ashram in Namkhana. Though a school accommodating more than 3000 students, the learning achievement standards of students are below standard. Our intervention aimed at providing the students with quality teachers and quality teaching learning material through an online live portal. Competency based curriculum was provided to the teacher along with relevant videos which were shared with the students. The intervention consisted of lessons in Mathematics and English for children remotely via video conference with help from the remote teachers. Over a period of 6 months, INCD conducted a total of 144 online sessions with underprivileged students at Namkhana.

At Krishnanagar, INCD, in collaboration with SIRG conducted online teaching in blended mode, where we taught mathematics and english to 50 school students from Class 1-5. We helped these rural students to get connected to experienced urban teachers from Kolkata, where through regular interaction with the mentors, the students are imparted with quality education.