TIIE-EL-Education System

Academic Support System

Block Inclusive Education Resource Teacher (BIERT)

The Planned agenda for the meeting with BIERT is as follows:

1. ITFC Inclusive work presentation – 15 minutes

2. Baseline presentation- 30 minutes

3. Questions for discussion with BIRP (1 hr)

   • What does your work involve? How frequent are the interactions with teachers and students?

   • In your school visits and interactions with students, have you observed any children showing signs of LD/MLD?

   • Are there any diagnostic assessments done by you/department to identify children with SLDs? How are these done? What support is offered to schools, children, families?

   • Are follow-up visits done for students with CWSN and/or LDs/MLDs? How frequently are these conducted?

   • What are the schemes/facilities provided by the government to support CWSN (optional)

   • What pedagogical support is provided to such students? Do teachers receive training from the department?

4. Checking about IE resource centre (30 minutes)

   • Are they maintaining any resources related to IE?

   • What kind of resources are these? (check if it is helpful to our resources)

   • Uploading/maintaining/sharing our IE resources?

Reflection :

1. There are four BIERTs, two for primary and two for secondary school, and they specialize in LD (Shivanna), VI (Surekha, Meena), and MR(Roopa) during BEd. There are 347 CWSN students divided into three groups: home-based, school-ready, and school-based under the department's 21 parameters. The government organizes weekly-twice psychotherapy treatment for severe CWSN students (those who are unable to attend school), as well as government-provided MR kits and scholarships for those who have UDID (Unique disability identification card). As we understood from the conversation, BIERTs are untrained and primarily work for the CWSN, and they seem to collect data from schools, much like CRPs.
2. BIERT Meeting - 9.2.23 (Shivanna and Roopa) : • Individual education plans (IEPs) for students are useful for tracking them.    • In South 3 Block, 50 students from HS and HPS are experiencing ID and LD challenges.    • There are some government hospitals to diagnose students' difficulties, such as Victoria, Sanjay Ghandhi, Nimhans, and others (Day wise availabilty of hospitals are attached in photo to meet doctors in respective hospital but doctors details and their specialization we need to check before visit to hospital.)    • Dr. Girish rural psychiatrist (Phone number- 9964161331) is available to diagnose LD challenges in Jayanagar government hospital near the bus depot on Monday and Saturday.    • Shree Ramakrishna samagra kendra (SRSK) in Gottigere is one of the special school near to some government schools which they located in Gottigere and Konanakunte clusters.    • They organised trainings for teachers related to LD but not specific to the subject in different locations for almost a month prior to the start of the covid, where different experts were invited and brainstorming sessions for teachers on LD were held.    • A long time ago, a KIT for LD students was distributed that included TLMs, foundational skills, colours, shapes, body parts, and numbers.
3.    a)Focused on severe disabilities and tracking with a few schools that updated in SATS. They are only concerned with children to learn basic self-care skills such as brushing, bathing, and eating.    b)Shivanna tracking some students other than LD for getting UDID card to them.    c)Not particularly concerned about LD children, and knowledge on the LD is limited.    d)As he mentioned he is very sincere in his work to take care of these children, he is not taking any action despite the fact that we informed him about some students who are facing challenges due to LD.    e)They were not trained on IE after CORONA, and some mechanical functions were implemented based on their experiences. It appears to be data collection and showcasing work done.    f)Lack of knowledge about subject-specific pedagogy and teaching strategies for children with moderate or mild LD and ID. Seem to be no BIERT professional development trainings on IE.     

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