Phase 2: Co-design Meetings 

Phase 2 of the project involved weekly meetings of teams to co-design CTSI curricular units that the teachers will teach in December.  

Out of 20 teachers who expressed their desire to participate in the co-design phase of the project, we invited nine teachers from five schools. The selection of the schools was based on the geographical location of the schools (we could not include schools that were farther than 20 km because of the weekly meetings), the medium of instruction, and socioeconomic status. We did not have any prospective participants for Phase 2 who were from schools that taught in regional languages. The medium of instruction in one of the partnering schools was semi-English, which meant that only science and mathematics were taught in English.   

We formed co-design teams; each with one or two teachers, and one or two CTSI co-design partners, for the following topics:

• Changes in motion and mechanical energy during the free fall of an object

• Mechanism of Mendelian inheritance (two teams)

• Selective reabsorption in kidneys

• Simple harmonic motion of a pendulum

• Coordinate geometry

For the co-design work, we conducted five or six weekly meetings. Each meeting was for two hours. 

Broadly speaking, the structure of the five meetings was as follows: