SUHATHSA 2014 – PHASE 1

SUHATHSA 2014 – PHASE_1

               

SUMMARY

SUHATHSA is a project from the CES of University of Moratuwa that helps the students from schools which are with lack of facilities. Matale was selected for project 2014 phase-1 and a two day seminar was held to the students from around 5 schools about facing the three maths stream subjects. The seminar was appreciated, and commented for a lack of time, expected to be held widely in the future.

INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

It is an annual project by CES of University of Moratuwa; SUHATHSA of 2014 has been decided to be held to Tamil people separately as the phase-1 unlike the previous years. A set of guidance seminars were held by the Civil Engineering students for Maths, Physics and Chemistry. On 08 and 09 of March, two days of the weekend, the seminar was held in Pakkiyam national school, Matale, as the Tamil students from Matle experience a lack of guidance on the GCE A/L exams. The Seminar was held as a paper class model with a model paper for each subject.

OBJECTIVE/S AND ACHIEVEMENTS OR RESULTS

OBJECTIVE

The main objective was to increase the number of students entering the university. Rather than doing a paper, canvassing for that was the main action and the desired achievement was to encourage the students for that and hopefully that was achieved.

RESULTS

The students were requested to fill an evaluation form during the seminars asking about the outcomes they got from the seminar, along with their comments. The forms were analyzed and the following results were gained.

DESCRIPTION	Maths	Physics	Chemistry
The seminar was useful	4.1	4.5	4.6
The seminar was efficient and effective.	4.5	4.6	4.2
The teaching was good.	4.2	4.2	4.2
The questions were useful.	4.0	3.9	4.0
New approaches were taught.	4.0	4.0	3.9
Given questions were perfect.	4.7	4.7	4.5
Time management was good.	4.6	4.2	4.2
Explanations were plenty.	3.9	4.7	3.8

Many comments were written, predominantly appreciations and thanking. Most of them feel the lack of time to cover the entire syllabus and discussions in a weekend time, request for a future seminar with enough time to cover all. The teaching style was far too speed and hard to understand for them, which was updated spontaneously, due to the dialect and the gap of learning style.

CONSTRAINS / CHALLENGES

The main challenge was that we had to adapt to the students style of learning to do the discussions. Added to that, as per the students, the time was not enough. In our perspective, as we were not the ones who manages the time, the time management was difficult.

SUGGESTION AND RECOMMENDATION

Matale is a very rural area with unbelievably lack of resources for Advanced Level education, it is better to conduct future projects there, as the students are very keen for these kinds of works.

 QUOTES

There is a community of parents in Matale, doing many works for educational development in Matale. They appreciated the project and promised to give their full support in the future projects.

PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SEMINAR.