A TCEF team comprising of Valerie Hellermann, Project Manager and Sara Buckerfield, Consultant in Language Acquisition are currently visiting select Tibetan schools in India to study current instructional practices, curricula, and assessment norms. Their visits to the different classrooms will be documented on film for later review and study. This visit is very kindly coordinated by the Department of Education, Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamsala who organized the following schedule for their visits:

Monday, October 14, 2013
Tibetan Children’s Village School, Upper Dharamsala:
Classroom observations in the primary and middle sections, and visit to libraries, English laboratory/resource rooms, TCV Primary English Resource Center, etc.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Sambhota Peteon School, Dharamsala:
Classroom observations in the primary and secondary sections, and visit to libraries, English resource rooms, etc.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Tibetan Children’s Village School, Lower Dharamsala:
Classroom observations in the primary and secondary sections, and visit to libraries, English laboratory/resource rooms, etc.
Leave for Suja/Bir in the afternoon.

Thursday, October 17, 2013
Tibetan Children’s Village School, Suja:
Classroom observations in the primary and secondary sections, and visit to libraries, English laboratory/resource rooms, etc.

Friday, October 18, 2013
Sambhota Tibetan School, Chauntra:
Classroom observations in the primary and secondary sections, and visit to libraries, English laboratory/resource rooms, etc.
Leave for Dharamsala @2pm

Monday, October 21, 2013
 Tibetan Nehru Memorial Foundation School, Dehradun:
Classroom observations in the primary and secondary sections, and visit to libraries, English laboratory/resource rooms, etc.
Tibetan Homes Foundation School, Rajpur (Dehradun):
Classroom observations in the primary and secondary sections, and visit to libraries, English laboratory/resource rooms, etc.