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Results and Analysis ·          Career Awareness : o    Pre-post Comparison: An initial understanding of their career choices and the awareness of career path to their chosen goals was gathered. Initially, gaps were found in their understanding of career paths and discrepancy in terms of the stream to be chosen. After conducting a career counselling session with them, a post intervention test was administered. The analysis revealed a heightened awareness about the appropriate subject stream, requisite tests, sources of information and relevant degrees. o    Career Path to Traditional options o    Non-traditional options: Initially, because of social conditioning, traditional career options seemed to be the obvious choice. Post the intervention of webisodes, a curious outlook towards a-stereotypical options was observed. ·          Inter-personal Skill...

During this session, we planned to organize with the children some role-plays to help them tackle social situations they can encounter. Through this little game, we want to have them engaged so they could develop inter-personal skills and reflections about the consequences of their actions. Our goal was also to sensitize them to specific meetings where the lack of tolerance on their part could lead to harmful feelings with the people surrounding them. We implemented two situations: the first one was about a new girl arriving at school. We asked them how they would react, what they would say and what interactions they would suggest, so the new girl can be quickly involved in the class. This was really interesting to see that among the SMILE students, the girls were really eager to participate. It was possibly easier for them to imagine such situation and project themselves in it. We had multiple suggestions from the students: speak to the new girl to become friend, share some food w...

This session was aimed at understanding their awareness about the various career options and the path to reach their desired goals. Also an attempt to expose them to non-traditional career options, using interaction and multimedia technology was made. It all began with talking about their dream career and the motivations to be that person and also if they knew the route to reaching this goal. Some students displayed discrepancy in the career choice and the educational stream chosen to follow their dream. In cases where it wasn’t too late (till 10 th  standard, where stream choice has not yet been made), we guided them for the right educational path, the coaching and guidance available at each stage and the set of examinations necessary to be in that profession. This activity played out well, since some students, who were initially reluctant to speak their mind, got a chance to talk about their aspirations with pride and the importance they attach to that goal. Aligning to...