RESC – CHILAW
Zonal Education
Office
Chilaw
Established when ?
05.10.1992 at St/Mary’s Boys College,
Chilaw.
Staff then…
Ø Coordinator
– Mr.Boniface Fernando
Ø Ms - KL Piyasoma
Ø Ms
– PP Chandrani
Ø Ms
– Radhika de Silva
Together with the NIE Ms Fiona Kelly assisted the staff
giving basic training at the beginning.
Later VSO – Ms. AB Heningfield residing at Chilaw, helped
the staff guiding them. After doing a great service to Chilaw area, she left
the country.
When Mr – Boniface Fernando went on his retirement, Mr – G Gunathilake assumed
duties as the coordinator.
RESC shifted to
Bishop Edmond Pieris College in August 1998
VSO – Ms.Simone O’ conor visited time to time and helped a
lot to conduct workshops and same year the PELP project started. And staff
launched the popular PELP workshops. Ms.
Simone left after two years of her service.
Next VSO – Ms.
Valerie Eliotte resided in Chilaw. Together with the staff, she started many
new programmes to enhance the knowledge of teachers of English and the students
in the area.
Ø PELP workshops
Ø Methodology workshops
Ø Library workshops
Ø Mobile workshops
Ø Prepared GCE O/L support papers every year.
Ø Conversation club for school leavers.
Ms – Valerie Eliotte left the country and also
Mr – G Gunathilake left the centre to the Teachers’ College,
Bingiriya.
Ø Mrs.
KL Piyasoma became the coordinator.
Ø Mr. WMA Fernando joined the staff.
Ø Ms.Radhika de Silva too left the centre to the open university.
RESC shifted to the Zonal Education Office, Chilaw in 2005
Ø Ms.
Kumari Saradha joined the staff and left again vacating her post and became the
ISA to Anamaduwa.
Ø Mr.
JE Bulathsinghala joined the staff instead of her.
Ø Coordinator
Ms. KL Piyasoma went on her retirement on June 17, 2010
Ø Since
beginning of the RESC, the staff did a tremendous service to promote the
English knowledge of the teachers and the students in the area.
Ø Following
are the prominent workshops…
Ø PELP workshops
Ø SELP workshops
Ø Various workshops planned by the staff
Ø Library workshops
Ø Mobile workshops (staff attended far a places
)
Ø ABOE workshops
Ø Literature workshops
Ø English programme for grade V scholarship
students.
Ø Programmes for non – English primary teachers
Ø Conversation clubs for school leavers
English classes for
low achievers (CHENIM) programme
Various other
activities
u GCE
O/L seminars for the students
u GCE
A/L seminars for the students
u Literature
seminars for the students
u English
camps
u Projects
to uplift the results in selected schools.
u Various
types of competitions – essay, quiz programmes…
u English
Language Exhibitions
u English
courses for school leavers
u English
courses for principals
u English
programme for pre school teachers
u Life
skill programme
u Results
uplifting projects
Sponsored by the
British Council and done by the RESC staff
u TKT
courses for the Teachers
u Road
Show – ‘Confident Classroom Voices’
in 2010
u Hornby
Cascading Programme 2010 – 2011 ’Bringing Grammar to Life in the Secondary
Classroom’
(These workshops are
always requested by the teachers…)
u Project
to uplift the English language results.
After analyzing
results of O/L, RESC staff decided to
help the schools
who have got lowest
results. The intention was to uplift the
results at least by 10%.
Procedure :-
Each
staff member selected two schools from Arachchikattuwa and Chilaw Education
Divisions.
Visited
the schools.
Discussed
with the teachers of English.
Planned
various types of activities.
Support
classes were conducted by the schools too.
Students
were assisted to face the exam confidently.
This
was done since 2008.
Staff
noticed that there is a progress in English results later when anzlyzing…
Pass Percentage of
GCE O/L
u This
year too we have decided to select 4 schools as there are only 2 staff members.
We expect to enhance the results by 10%.
Selected schools 2010
Ilippadeniya MV 33.75
%
GCS Corea MV 35.00
%
Karukkuliya MV 38.88
%
Rajakadaluwa MV 32.95
%
u In
2008 Ms.PP Chandrani has done an action research.
u This
was done with the intention of finding out how effective is changing the
teacher role in the language classroom.
u Results
showed that the changing teacher role leads to effective positive teaching and
learning in learner centered classroom.
u Papers
prIn year 2000 for the first time SLELTA conference, two staff members presented
their papers.
Papers presented by the RESC staff nationally or internationally
u In
year 2000 for the first time SLELTA conference, two staff members presented
their papers.
Ms.PP Chandrani – on ‘Spoken Language’
Ms.Radhika de Silva – on ‘
Students’ perception of the English
Teaching/Learning
experience in classrooms’
In 2001 Ms.PP Chandrani conducted
a workshop on ‘Be Resourceful in the Language Classroom’
It’s a pleasure to inform that
Ms. PP Chandrani has won the crossword – 9 in the international magazine
English teaching professional.
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