CHESS ETF

The reach of the CHESS project is wider than the earlier projects of RMSA in Maharashtra. At least one English teacher from each and every state board school is the member of English Teacher Forum. Every Block Resource Centre or Urban Resource Centre have their own forum.

This is a major step in universalisation of education in secondary schools of Maharashtra.Expert guidance and support is now available to the English teachers at block level. The number of ETFs will be increased if there are more than 50 teachers in a block or centre.There were six ETF meetings in the first year of the project while the number of ETF meetings are 10. Out of these 5 are face to face meetings while 5 others are online ETF sessions. The Moderators are experts having completed four years of ELISS (English Language Initiative for Secondary Schools) training and have supported mentee teachers under the mentoring scheme before.

The project is technology-driven hence the ETF Moderators and Members will get ample opportunities of technology integration for online collaboration and creating their own Personal Learning Network.The real beneficiaries of the project are the students of standard 9th and 10th standard in Maharashtra. There are around 30 lakh high school students who will reap benefits of this project.