Warangal: ELTA helping students pursue areas of interest
Warangal: The English Language Teachers’ Association(ELTA), is now focusing on imparting the HOT topics (Higher Order Thinking) which include Artificial Intelligence (AI), IoT, Machine learning (MI), and Robotics providing an opportunity for the young learners to explore their favourite areas of interest. On the other hand, it is also running a Radio Podcast service for […]
Warangal: The English Language Teachers’ Association(ELTA), is now focusing on imparting the HOT topics (Higher Order Thinking) which include Artificial Intelligence (AI), IoT, Machine learning (MI), and Robotics providing an opportunity for the young learners to explore their favourite areas of interest. On the other hand, it is also running a Radio Podcast service for the benefit of the teachers, students and parents online.
Speaking to ‘Telangana Today’, the association district general secretary Kokkula Sampat Kumar said that they had trained 60 students for eight days in August this year under the HOT online by inviting experts from various reputed institutions from India and abroad. “While 60 children attended the classes, 12 of them excelled with prototypes. They have identified solutions from a few problems with their prototypes,” said Sampat Kumar, who is playing a vital role in executing several such projects.
Thus the ELTA has made the best use of even the worst situation emerging out of the COVID-19 outbreak to enrich the students of government schools both in language and technology. Technology has reached every doorstep now. “With the consent of government authorities, ELTA took an initiative to start online classes to students of class 8 and 9 students for 36 days under ‘ELTA Techy Kids’ programme. A total of 40 students attended the online class in 2020,” he said.
“We have conducted Spellathon with VK Educational Solutions, Story Telling Competition with Vandemataram Foundation, Advanced Spoken English course covering grammar topics which would help the students in their academics, ‘Phonetics’ and a lot about ICT tools during these courses,” Sampat said, adding that they were also coming up ‘Techy kid’s Newsletter’ to reflect on the problems, famous personalities, issues, and different contemporary topics to help the students in improving their thinking skills.
“To make children blissful and help them to improve their extra co-curricular skills, we have been celebrating every important and special day on the calendar like Children’s Day, National Youth Day, Diwali Ugadi, Ambedkar’s Jayanthi, International Yoga day, English day, Friendship day, and Guru Poornima,” he explained.
“I remain thankful to Sampat Kumar teacher. He is the only person always who encouraged me with his words. He helped me a lot to remove the fear of English,” said M Archana, a 10th class student from KGBV, Inavole.
Sampat Kumar KoKkula, hails from Anthakpet of Husnabad. He was appointed as a teacher in 1996. completed his MA (English Literature) M.Sc (Zoology) and M.E.D for better Understanding of Students Psychology he is now pursuing M.Sc (Psychology).
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