Project Brief: The Rishi Valley Education Center runs diverse programs - providing education, organic farming, water conservation / management and health care. Asha is supporting the health care project.
Project Type: Alternative Education (description)
Primary Focus: other (description)

Secondary Focus: other

Area: Rural
Supporting Chapter Contact:
Seattle

Status: CLOSED - ENDED
Project Steward: Sumana Reddy
Project Partner(s): Sri Madipalli
Project Address: Rishi Valley Education Center - RVS Rural Education Project
Rishi Valley Education Center
Krishnamurti Foundation India
Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh 517352
Tel: 011 91 8571280622
Stewarding Chapter: Seattle

1.Be a school free of fear, full of color and joy inside, and green and beautiful outside;
2.Have a learning-ladder, made up of small learning steps, that enables self-paced individual learning;
3. Promote cooperative learning through peer support;
stress on activity-based experiential learning through craft, games, song and drama;
4. Practise multi-grade, multi level teaching-learning which enables the teacher to give individual attention to a child when he/she needs it most;
5. Integrate local culture and values of conservation into the curriculum;
6. Encourage teachers to design creative teaching-learning material and share it with other teachers.