Interactive Science Teaching is a blended practice-based course for in-service high school teachers offered as part of a large-scale field action project called “Connected Learning Initiative” (CLIx: https://clix.tiss.edu). The course is offered to science teachers from government-run schools from 4 states: Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, and Telangana. A total of 712 teachers registered for the course. Here we are reporting the process of developing the course and its reception by the teachers. Our main observations are: Of the 2 components of the course, the practice component (implementing exemplary blended pedagogic material) was better received by the teachers. The teachers were enthusiastic during the face-to-face workshop of the blended learning component but did not engage with the online material during the distance period. The reasons given by the teachers for this were lack of time and difficulty in accessing online material. Last, we will document some of the revisions we undertook after the experience of the first run of the course.
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