{"id":1650,"date":"2025-08-01T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2026-01-30T00:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:54:31","slug":"arc-on-wheels-pragya-teacher-training-program-tamil-nadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/arc-on-wheels-pragya-teacher-training-program-tamil-nadu\/","title":{"rendered":"ARC-On-Wheels at Pragya Teacher Training Program (Tamil Nadu)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ARC On Wheels supported a two-day teacher training program under the Pragya initiative in Tamil Nadu, conducted exclusively for Vision Empower educators and the VE team. The session focused on hands-on orientation and pedagogical use of tactile STEM teaching\u2013learning materials, including simple pendulum, sprinkler, inertia in rest, conservation of energy, thermal expansion of solids, water maintaining its level, musical rods, and the Help Me model. Teachers were also trained on the effective classroom integration of tactile mathematics and science resources such as graph kits, algebraic tiles, and tactile science and mathematics primers. The program aimed to strengthen educators\u2019 confidence and capacity to deliver inclusive, experiential STEM instruction for learners with visual impairment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"9a8d7a\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #9a8d7a;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-content\/uploads\/pragya-teacher-training-program-tamil-nadu-3.webp?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Teachers watching an experiment\" class=\"wp-image-1773 not-transparent\" 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height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-content\/uploads\/pragya-teacher-training-program-tamil-nadu-4.webp?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Teachers around the instructor explaining concepts\" class=\"wp-image-1772 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-content\/uploads\/pragya-teacher-training-program-tamil-nadu-4.webp?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-content\/uploads\/pragya-teacher-training-program-tamil-nadu-4.webp?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-content\/uploads\/pragya-teacher-training-program-tamil-nadu-4.webp?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-content\/uploads\/pragya-teacher-training-program-tamil-nadu-4.webp?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-content\/uploads\/pragya-teacher-training-program-tamil-nadu-1.webp?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-content\/uploads\/pragya-teacher-training-program-tamil-nadu-1.webp?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-content\/uploads\/pragya-teacher-training-program-tamil-nadu-1.webp?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-content\/uploads\/pragya-teacher-training-program-tamil-nadu-1.webp?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"8b7e6c\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #8b7e6c;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" 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supported a two-day teacher training program under the Pragya initiative in Tamil Nadu, conducted exclusively for Vision Empower educators and the VE team. The session focused on hands-on orientation and pedagogical use of tactile STEM teaching\u2013learning materials, including simple pendulum, sprinkler, inertia in rest, conservation of energy, thermal expansion of solids, water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arc-on-wheels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1791,"href":"https:\/\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visionempowertrust.org\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}