No weightage marks system in the recruitment of teachers in TN government schools
Posted on: 25/Jul/2018 9:40:24 AM
Teachers play an important role in the life of a student is well known. The news now is for recruiting elementary and upper primary school teachers in government schools, the Tamil Nadu state government has scrapped the weightage marks system now. The school education secretary, Mr. Pradeep Yadav issued a government order and as per this order it is clear that TET or Teachers Eligibility Test qualified candidates must appear for a competitive exam to get appointment in government schools in TN.
It is known that the teachers who teach classes 1 to 8, TET was introduced to recruit the teachers and this was as per the RTE Act. It is important to note that the secondary grade teachers have to qualify in paper 1 and grade teachers would have to clear paper 2 for their recruitments. In 2012, government of TN introduced weightage marks system. In this 60% of weightage would be given to TET marks and 40% weightage would be given to academic performances in board examinations plus in degree examinations. Due to the weightage marks system, many candidates who cleared with high marks in TET could not get selected as teachers.
An official belonging to school education department expressed his thoughts and spoke about how different evaluation system was followed by the state universities. There would be both liberal correction as well as strict correction. For all the candidates there was no level playing field as some candidates were in advantageous position. Old candidates were worst affected by this as they graduated from the conservative school and college system where getting first class was regarded highly. There were many requests from various sections. The common syllabus board of school education department had recommended to replace weightage marks system with the competitive exam. This had led to school education department considering TET as the only qualifying exam for the recruitment of teachers up to class 8 in government schools in TN.
According to an educationist, Mr. Prince Gajendra Babu, TET containing as many as 150 questions from the respective subjects checks the memory skills only and not the teachers teaching ability and aptitude etc. He is of the opinion that after clearing TET, the government must consider the seniority of the candidates and award weightage to the work experience when preparing the merit list of the candidates for teacher’s recruitment in the government schools. He appreciated the government’s effort in doing away with the weightage marks system.
