EZ Vidya, an educational organisation launches Chrysalis

Chennai, Feb 15: EZ Vidya, a city-based educational organisation providing unique services to schools across the country, has launched Chrysalis, a well researched, unique information and communication technology curriculum which integrates all the must-have components of education.

EZ Vidya Founder and Chief Executive Officer Chitra Ravi told mediapersons that as educators, their responsibility was to nurture a thinking generation.

She pointed out they also partnered with WIPRO, Azim Premji Foundation and TVS Group to execute their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives in education.

They trained over 1,000 teachers in the past three years to redefine the purpose and the quality of education. The company also evaluated studies of educational programme of various multinationals.

Ms Ravi said WIPRO believed the present education system need to help children to acquire the ability to think creatively and critically.

The Teacher Empowerment Programme (TEP), offered by them, provides comprehensive training on innovative teaching methods and systems that foster such abilities in children and support their active implementation within the classroom.

She said the Azim Premji Foundation and the company had jointly brought out a multimedia CD titled 'Thiruvalluvar Ula' which would enable thousands of government schoolchildren to learn Tamil grammar in an interesting way.

They had taken up another novel project with the help of TVS Group CSR. This involved performance enhancement programmes for teaching fraternity and students in selected government schools in Tirunelveli and Tuticorin districts.

Another programme corporation schools programme-an endeavour for transformation was designed to bring awareness in the teachers as to what were the essential characteristics needed in the youth of today to suit the working conditions generally existing in any work spot and the need to empower themselves to help their students attain the same.

This programme contained essentials of education to the latest classroom techniques to assessment methodologies, she added.

Replying to another question, she said the Listen, Speaking, Reading and Writing (LSRW) Programme launched in 2005 for improving the communication skills of students of government schools had evoked tremendous response.

UNI