TIL Desk Lucknow/ The 5 to 7 year-olds of City International School’s Manas City Campus amazed the spectators by fluntly reading the newspapers of the day in both English and Hindi. The credit for the Student’s phenomenal reading prowess, reading fluency and confidence in speaking goes to the ground-breaking Accelerating Learing for All or ALfA pedagogy.
Director CIS, Dr. Sunita Gandhi and programme author, says she came up with ALfA methodology after many years of research by working with the underprivileged children for whom she made the Global Dream Disruptive Literacy Toolkit in 2014. She said: “ALfA is child-friendly, process-led pedagogy in which children work in pairs and learn to decode and blend sounds to make words from the beginning. Teacher’s role is to motivate and support this process, ask, wait but not tell or teach.
The Chief Guest, Alok Ranjan, IAS Officer(retd.), Ex-Chief Secretary, Uttar Pradesh, and Co-Chair of the Global Dream Literacy Campaign said that he was surprised to witness the Reading Revolution today at City International School. He also praised the school for building the students personalities.