Textbook content to be reduced for the lost days for TN school students
Posted on: 16/Jun/2020 10:36:01 AM
The lock down done to contain the spread of Coronavirus infection has created issues for many school students and teachers belonging to TN.
It is now revealed by the school education department that the content of textbooks for the students belonging to classes 1 to 10 would be reduced by atleast 30%. This would be for the purpose of compensating for the number of days lost due to the lockdown.
To identify and recommend the areas to be omitted, a committee of teachers, book authors and faculty members from District Institute of Education and Training or DIET has been set up. Information collectd is more than 100 experts has been working on reducing the textbook content for each subject. Last year, there were some teachers who have taught new textbooks and these teachers have been included in this group of experts.
It was brought out by an expert that analysing learning outcomes has been going on and identification of the areas to be reduced would also be carried out. The textbook content would be reduced to the extent of 30 percent to 50 percent because of the lack of clarity in the reopening of the schools in TN.
As per a teacher, a lesson or a part of a lesson or any portion not important for this year would be removed. Another teacher mentioned that those portions that were repeated and less important would be removed.
Recommendations would be made by the subject groups to the school education department regarding reduction of textbook content and final decision would be taken depending on the date of reopening of the schools.
It is important to note that care would be taken so that the students do not miss out on any important concepts in learning. Thematic presentation would be making its presence felt in the Tamil and English language textbooks.
It was later pointed out by a teacher that prose, poem and supplementary portions from various units would be selected and grammar and exercise would be there as they form the basics. It is revealed that the students would get their full textbooks as the books were already printed and sent to the districts.
