Question pretext
This section is to be filled before even entering the school, and is meant especially for rural government primary schools, though it can also apply to rural private schools and urban government (municipal) schools. The idea is to observe teaching activity, as in many cases, teachers may be physically present in the school but not engaging in any teaching. Once you go and meet the head teacher, the news will spread quickly, and observations on teaching activity at that point will not be reliable. Since most government primary schools consist of only 2-3 classrooms, and since people walk near the school all the time, you should be able to observe the interiors of the classroom even before talking to the head teacher. Observe the activity discreetly before asking for the head teacher's office and note down the following details:
Literal question
How many classrooms have a teacher who is engaged in teaching activity?
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Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
Teaching activity is defined as any of the following: Writing on the blackboard, reading from a textbook, explaining something in front of the class, or supervising student?s oral or written work. The following activities DO NOT count as teaching activity: Doing any other work in the classroom (reading, knitting, sleeping etc.) while the students are given work, standing outside the class talking to other teachers, while students are given work, and any other activity while students are given work to do
