Lesson developed by Bhavya Singh (YHS Fulbright-Hays 2022)

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सखी महिला डेयरी: नारी सशक्तिकरण अभियान 

1. Proficiency: Advance Low/Mid     
2. Students: HLL/FLL
3. Grade/Level: College
4. Time: 4×75

Essential Questions:

1. How can we create community-based opportunities for women in rural India and the United States to professionally and financially educate and empower them?
2. How do Grassroot initiatives like Sakhi Mahila diary support improving the socio-economic status of women belonging to the marginalized sections of the Indian Society?
3. How do cooperative dairy societies promote diversified social relationships among rural women and help them join a gender-inclusive workforce?

Enduring Understanding:

1. Concepts of women empowerment vary across cultures and communities.
2. Critical factors for women empowerment.
3. Key concepts underlying the five dimensions of women’s empowerment. 
4. The benefits of collective dairy farming through cooperative dairy societies under the national dairy plan promoted women’s empowerment and social and economic inclusion in rural communities. 
5. Collective dairy farming encourages and promotes women’s technical education and enhances women’s agency in household and community-level financial decisions. 

Context: Students are in the role of organizers of the International Dairy Federation’s  Leadership Symposium. They are looking for ways to recruit South Asian speakers and invite dairy industry experts to participate in panel discussions to encourage rising women professionals to collaborate with fellow industry change-makers, enhance their leadership skills, and prepare them for leadership roles while reflecting on opportunities and challenges in the dairy industry. 

Articulation Spiral Points: 

• Identify grassroots initiatives in the dairy industry dedicated to women’s empowerment. 
• Distinguish venues and strategie
  s for career advancements. 
• Explain and report the benefits of women in the dairy sector forum. 
• Plan a program suitable for the client’s personal choice
• Design a multimedia talent recruitment campaign.

Authentic Resources:

• सखी महिला योजना 
• सखी दूध ग्राहक प्रतिक्रिया 
• राजस्थान की सखी महिला मिल्क प्रोड्यूसर कंपनी ने लॉन्च किया ‘सखी घी’

Language Targets:

Use of:

• conditional sentences (potential and contrafactual)
• cliche expressions from high register 
• passive verbs in subjunctive form
• Subordinate conjuctions: यद्यपि, यदि
• Inflected infinitive: की वजह से, के कारणवश 
• Absolutive expressions
• Formation ofd Adverbs: कृपया, संभवतः 

Intercultural Transfer Targets:

• I can select and recommend personalized career pathways to new female members of cooperative dairy societies like Sakhi Mahila milk producer company Ltd for their socio-economic development and professional growth. 
• I can demonstrate awareness of subtle differences among work cultural behavior in a diverse community compared to the target culture and adjust my behavior accordingly to promote women’s empowerment and support the symposium’s target goals. 
• In my and other cultures, I can identify and compare how women perceive individual work styles, career paths, venues, and strategies that establish diversified professional choices for Sakhi members in India and provide opportunities for international collaborative trade networking with women employees in the United States. 

Lesson Objectives:

• Interpretive: I can understand, analyze and organize the main message and supporting details and infer meaning from authentic informational text/audio-visual resources on the business structure of collective dairy farming through cooperative dairy societies dedicated to women empowerment in India and the United States. 

• Interpersonal: I can discuss, explain and negotiate the benefits of joining local, regional, national, and international dairy cooperatives that promote women’s empowerment and social and economic inclusion in rural communities. 
• Presentational: As part of the Women Cooperative Diary leadership symposium, I can report by creating informative, persuasive multimedia presentations about the role of women in the dairy industry and participate in the expert speaker panel to promote more women enrollment in the Women in Diary Network. 

Student Learning Tasks: 

Interpretive Task:  Teacher shares the authentic resources( text- audio recording as an additional support)/ audio visual resources with the script)  with the vocabulary list and glossary list of related concepts in the target language. Students in numbered breakout rooms/ classroom stations listen/ read and view authentic resources to understand and analyze the main message and supporting details related to the concepts of women’s empowerment, critical factors of women’s empowerment, and the concept of collective dairy farming initiatives such as Sakhi Mahila milk producer company ltd and summarize the text, main idea and infer facts and opinion along with real-life examples of community leaders and dairy experts to complete shared group research template/infographic.

Interpersonal Task: Within teacher-assigned teams, students, through group discussion, exchange information, and ideas and come up to a consensus on the following how:

• Incorporate concepts, dimensions, and factors of women empowerment in the social media campaign for new member recruitment for cooperative dairy societies. 
• Key questions to be included for the speaker and diary expert selections to promote learning, sharing best practices and mentorship opportunities during and after the Diary leadership symposium to empower, encourage and support women in the dairy industry.
• Convince local, regional, national, and international dairy leadership and management to initiate new projects at the grassroots level in the rural area, encouraging more and more women to join the dairy industry focused on women’s technical education and enhancing women’s agency in household and community-level financial decisions. 

Each group shares their discussion draft through Google doc with the teacher (as mentor and facilitator) and classroom (peer reviewer) for synchronous and asynchronous feedback. Teacher provides the rubrics to evaluate the discussion draft and students give points with 2-3 explanation justifying their rating to each group. Each group prepare the final draft with the suggested updates and share with teacher for final review.

Presentational Task:

• For International Dairy Foods Association’s leadership symposium, a student as an event manager created social media advertising campaign for a newspaper( newspaper Ad) and news channel advertising (Video advertisement) for provoking South Asian speakers and dairy industry experts to participate in panel discussions to encourage rising women professionals to collaborate with fellow industry change-makers, enhance their leadership skills, and prepare them for leadership roles while reflecting on opportunities and challenges in the dairy industry. 
• Student groups create PSA or advertisement poster as part of post symposium activity highlighting the local and global women leaders in the dairy sector to encourage more women enrollments and community involvements through cooperative dairy societies.