Govt plans push to improve quality of learning in schools
THE PROGRAMME WILL FOCUS ON MAKING CLASSROOMS IN ALL GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS DIGITAL
The Maharashtra education department is set to accelerate
efforts to implement its initiative to improve education quality in Maharashtra
over the next two months. The programme is being hurried after the department
failed to meet its Key Result Area targets for the year.
Renaming the programme as ‘Jalad Pragat Shaikshanik Maharashtra’
(Fast-paced Progressive Education Programme), the department will take swift
efforts to turn all the classrooms digital. This would also help to discourage
students from dropping out of school and to ensure that children out of school
are absorbed into the formal schooling system.
“Chief minister Devandra Fadnavis had given us targets to bring down the
drop-out rate in secondary section. Despite our efforts we were unable to meet
them,” said Nand Kumar, principal secretary of the department, in a government
resolution issued recently.
Under this programme, the main focus will be to make digital classrooms
in all government schools. This means that each child must have at least one
tab; interactive boards set up inside each class, equip them with android
sticks, projectors and other devices that will help in engaging their
attention.
“Going digital doesn’t mean teaching only through projectors or
interactive boards in class. It means changing the teaching learning experience
in schools so that they can prepare students to become 21st century learners,”
said Kumar. The department has already turned 25,000 schools in Maharashtra
digital in the last year.
Teachers would be trained to become tech-savvy and develop online
educational content which would be more appealing to the students, claimed
sources. WhatsApp groups will be formed to promote exchange of ideas among
teachers.
Training on effective leadership and management will be
imparted to teachers to transform them into better planners and visionaries,
added Kumar.
Source | Hindustan Times | 10 January 2017
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