Treasures of Innocence (ToI) is a registered society (Registration No: S/2L/26786 2014-2015) under the West Bengal Act XXVI of 1961. It is a 12A registered non-profit organisation under section 80(G) status of Income Tax Act.
Since our on-field inception in 2013, Treasures of Innocence has been concentrating all its efforts towards providing joyful learning to the children from socio-economic marginalized background. Our programs consciously include children from slums, orphanage, child care homes, shelter homes, government aided schools, schools with residential units for destitute children under Sarba Siksha Mission, Kolkata where the vulnerable children are coming from very difficult backgrounds.
All our programmes are structured in a way, so that the children can increase both their thinking process and learning outcomes related to his/her immediate environment and beyond. Our flagship intervention is to provide both pedagogic and extracurricular support for children to enable them to become thinking individuals
Our methodology is strictly based on Communication, Technological and Creative (CTC) aspects for children, as the future is driven by these common aspects. ToI provides a scope to think, question and retort the prevailing conditions of the society, to these children who has been stigmatized by the society. It is our aim to train children through Right-Based Approach to fully realize their individual potential and work with responsibilities for betterment and creation of a sustainable society.
The Proposition
Students in our classrooms will be getting into professional, economic and social milieu which none of us can even visualize today. It is being increasingly realized that learning specific skills or tools is not enough to be future ready. Learning how to be more creative (and thus adaptable) is what will prepare students for life beyond the classroom. Creativity is valued as the most important business skill in the modern world and remains as one of the most commonly used terms on LinkedIn. Creativity is no longer seen as just being for artists and musicians, it’s a crucial skill for everybody to master. Classroom teachers have a constant struggle between teaching content and incorporating creativity into daily instructions. Often state standards limit the teacher’s ability to develop lessons that include the creation in the classroom and teachers may resort to a more teacher-centered environment. It is therefore critical that external resources in terms of technical expertise be brought into the classroom so as to mainstream the creative learning processes.
The Predicament
Most of our schools often struggle to have the basics such as a compound wall, a playground, adequately resourced classrooms, and even drinking water and functioning toilets. The system which is struggling with the basics does not offer much onus for creative learning methodologies in the classroom. The curriculum, teacher orientation and learning outcomes is geared to get children familiar with the basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills mostly through the rote method. With the recent ASER study(2014) report showing some alarming data like 48.1% children of Class 5 could read a class 2 text in 2014 , our teaching methodology employed across classrooms in India is failing us.
Our Intervention
The Treasures of Innocence brings tailor-made academic accelerator programs which as its philosophy use creative learning methodology. The interventions are mainly for primary and secondary level schools where mostly children from less advantaged families study.
How We Work
Intended Outcomes
The ToI interventions aims to develop students who are reflective thinkers they understand their own strengths and limitations, identify goals and devise strategies for personal growth· willing to accept new challenges and new roles· aware of themselves as members of communities with responsibilities towards each other and the environment· active participants in sustained, collaborative projects · balanced they enjoy and find significance in a range of activities involving intellectual, physical, creative and emotional experiences.
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