Teachers’ Survey Report

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Section 1: Background of Teachers

• Maximum numbers of participating teachers were from cities like Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Vadodara etc.

69%

31%

Background

CityTown / Village

3

Grades Taken

8%

25%

29%

38%

Grades taken by teachers

Higher SecondaryMiddlePrimarySecondary

• Highest number of teachers from grades 6 – 9.

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Type of Schools

12%

6%

71%

12%

Type of Schools

GovtNGOPrivatePublic

70% of participating schools were privately held, much higher than government or public schools

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Gender Break up

74%

26%

Gender break - up

FemaleMale

Almost two thirds of participating teachers were female.

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Age Group

21%

37%

10%

16%

5%

5%5%

Age groups

20 - 24

25 - 29

30 - 34

35 - 39

40 - 44

55 - 59

60 - 64

58% of teachers were aged between 20 – 30 years

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Mode of transport

23%

36%

41%

Mode of Transport owned

CarScooterMotorbike

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Marital status / Family background

63%

37%

Marital Status

Married

Single

Most teachers were married and lived in either nuclear families or joint families.

52%48%

Family Background

Joint FamilyNuclear Family

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Teacher’s Individual Involvement

21%

24%

9%

18%

29%

Teachers' involvement in Community Service Projects

DailyMonthlyNeverWeeklyYearly

8.33%

13.89%

16.67%19.44%

22.22%

Teachers' involvement in Religious/ Spiritual projects

DailyMonthlyNeverWeeklyYearly

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Families’ Involvement

18%

18%

12%21%

32%

Family's involvement in Community

DailyMothlyNeverWeeklyYearly

10%

38%

17%

17%

17%

Family's involvement in Religious/ Spir-itual projects

DailyMonthlyNeverWeeklyYearly

Yearly involvement in various service projects was much higher compared to involvement in Religious/Spiritual Projects

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Getting Started: Source of Information about DFC

Internet NGO School Authority0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

5.71

22.85

68.85

Source of Information about DFG

Percent

Most teachers came to know about DFC through school authorities like director, principal or colleague teachers.

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Reasons for participating in DFC

Studen

ts sh

ould learn

about community

needs

Good School b

uilding e

xp

Wan

ted to

studen

ts to

win

Curricu

lum enhan

cemen

t

Pressu

re0.00%5.00%

10.00%15.00%20.00%25.00%30.00%35.00%40.00%45.00%50.00% 43.24%

27.03%

10.81%

18.92%

0.00%

Reasons to Participate in DFC

Percent

Almost half the teachers felt that it is very important for their students to learn about community needs of environment, education, etc and hence decided to participate in DFC.

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Time spent with students / self

0-5 hrs 5-10 hrs 10-20 hrs 20 hrs or more

0

5

10

15

20

2522.85

14.28

2.85

5.71

Time spent working alone at school

Percent

0-5 hrs 5-10 hrs 10-20 hrs 20 hrs or more

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

22.86

34.28

14.28 14.28

Time spent working with students

Percent

5 -10 hours was the maximum time spent by teachers in helping their students to successfully carry out various community service projects.

Most teachers spent up to 5 hours working by themselves at their schools to help their students with community service work.

14Once 5-10 times 11-20 times > 20 times0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

9

12

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Usage of DFG website

Frequency No resp

onse

Did not know ab

out the w

ebsit

e

No acces

s to In

ternet

0.00%

10.00%

20.00%

30.00%

40.00%

50.00%

60.00%

70.00% 65.71%

2.86%

31.43%

Reasons for not using DFG website

PercentNo Yes0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

20

71.43

Usage of DFG website

Percent

Almost 72% of teachers used DFC website at least once. Out of them most of them used the website 5 – 10 times and found whatever information they were looking for.

Usage of DFC Website

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Nature of Community needs addressed

11%

11%

21%

29%

14%

7%

7%

Type of community projects

Addiction

Awareness

Education/ Literacy

Environmental Issues

Help challenged / lonely people

Responsible Citizen

Sanitation

Environmental issues ranging from cleanliness, excessive use of plastic bags to global warming was most commonly felt community need closely, followed by various education and literacy related issues like educating poor children and need to make illiterate parents understand the importance of education.

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Time taken in different legs of DFC

1 day 2 days 3 days 4 days 5 days 6 days 7 days0

5

10

15

20

25

30

17.14

28.57

14.28 14.28

8.57

2.85

8.57

Time to plan and organize

Percent

1 day 2 days 3 days 4 days 5 days 6 days 7 days05

1015202530354045

5.71 5.71

17.14

5.718.57

11.43

40

Time to implement the idea

Percent

1 day 2 days 3 days 4 days 6 days 7 days0

5

10

15

20

25

30

Time to document

Percent

1 day 2 days 4 days 5 days 7 days0

10

20

30

40

50

60

Time to complete entry form

Percent

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Work done with students

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

1

3

4

2

4

6

2

Rank - Work with students (most to least enjoyable on a scale of 1- 7)

Rank

While helping with ideation and doing the actual work were the easiest and most enjoyable for the teachers, helping students with documenting their work was the least enjoyable.

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Different legs of DFC

Planning & organizing what to do and doing the actual work were the toughest legs of DFC.

Planning &

Orga

nizing

Doing the a

ctual

Work

Documen

tiation

Complete e

ntry fo

rms

0

0.5

1

1.5

2

2.5

3

3.5

4

4.5

Rank - different legs of DFC (easiest to hardest)

Rank

Effect on students Helping students0

5

10

15

20

25

30

22.86

25.71

0

Favourite part of DFC

Percent

The effect doing community service project had on students and helping them wit their work was the best thing about DFC according to teachers.

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Resources required

11.90%

16.67%

14.29%

57.14%

Resources required

More time

More help from school/community

More money

None

Almost 58% of teachers felt the resources they had were enough to carry out such work.

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Ranking - the most favourite

Helping th

e community

Team w

ork

Using th

e DFG

websit

e

Sense

of acco

mplishmen

t

Studen

ts ga

ined new

skills

/ knowledge

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

Rank: least - most favourite things about DFC

Rank

Helping the Community and students gaining new skills / knowledge were amongst the most favourite thing that the teachers found when their students participated in the DFC.

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Reasons for Winning / Not winning

29%

6%

6%

11%

46%

3%

Reasons for winning

Creative thiningDeterminationGood Documenta-tionhelp from schoolSucessfully met community needthey successfully met a need in the community

Most teachers believe that creative thinking and coming up with an innovative solution for a community need helped them win DFC.

40.00%

8.57%

5.71%

Reasons for not winning

No ResponseBad LuckLack of creative thinking

Maximum teachers whose student groups did not win chose not to answer this question, others felt it was bad luck or lack of creative thinking because of which their students did not win.

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Virtues children learnt

Team - Work Helping others Documentation & Presentation

Community needs / problems

New Skills / Knowledge

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

64.9 64.9

48.6

67.6

59.5

Virtues students learnt

Percent

Besides this 52% teachers believed that their students were highly motivated by this work and almost 92% believed that their students will want to do more of community service after participating in DFG contest.

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How DFC helped self

Motiva

te my s

tudents

Teach th

em real w

ays to m

ake a differe

nce

Teach te

am building

Teach docu

mentation & pre

sentation

Help identify

importa

nt issu

es0

1020304050607080

How DFC helped me

Percent

Most teachers agree that DFC taught them how to teach their students ways to make real difference and make them compassionate and understanding towards the needs of community.

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Important problems in the community

Poverty Education Disease Pollution Global warming Prejudice0.00%

5.00%

10.00%

15.00%

20.00%

25.00%

30.00%

35.00%

Important problems in the community

Percent

Education and illiteracy is the most important problem according to maximum teachers.

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DFC helped me discover about students / myself

16.22%

70.27%

DFC helped me discover about students

Importance of awarness about community needsStudents can do

23%

45%

32%

DFC helped me discover about myself

Community need / problemsI canJoy of Giving

Most of the teachers were highly surprised by the strength and understanding they discovered in their students through DFC.

Most teachers felt empowered and also discovered the joy and contentment giving brings.

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Thank You