In bid to begin the ambitious students exchange programme in the district Ranchi DC, Manoj Kumar will conduct a meeting with all the school principals on August 28. Notably, 42 private schools have been tagged with the Government schools in the Capital city for the learning exchange programme.
The exchange programme aims to sensitise both the private and Government school students covering academic and cultural arena, besides providing equal opportunity to the kids of Government schools to get acquainted with the environment and academic mores of private schools.
The programme, which was supposed to be initiated from August 15 will now commence from September first week. All private schools have been asked to draft out proposal seeking advice from those respective government schools which has been tied up with each other for the innovative approach.
“The department has issued an instruction to the District Superintendent of Education to initiate this ambitious student exchange programme by September first week. All the school principals have been asked to finalize the draft by August 31 after discussing it with the Ranchi DC. An interactive session too has been planned out for exchanging ideas at a common platform. All school principals must mention about various support channels in their final draft and finalize the time-table too after a mutual consultation,” said, School Education and literacy, Secretary, Aradhana Patnaik.
The programme will emphasize on spoken English, general knowledge, personality development programme including communication skills for the government school children whereas the unique concept of Child Cabinet (Bal Sansad) will be adopted by the students studying in private schools.
A letter regarding the programme has been circulated in all the schools. “The focus of the draft must be on academic exchange programme, labs and library culture, innovative methods of learning and teaching through smart classes including exchange of study materials of different subjects, as instructed by the Secretary in a meeting conducted recently with the school principals. So far, no school has yet submitted any document,” said, Ranchi DSE, Shivendra Kumar.
Nevertheless, few schools have chalked out plans to start the programme, Cambrian Public School which has collaborated with Hatma Government High School have planned to take up the programme through ‘Edutainment’ medium. “Keeping academics on priority, we have planned to impart education and elaborate vital topic through debates on current national, international issues, quiz competitions, story telling medium and project works. However, we have not yet figured out the schedule,” said, Cambrain Public School, Principal, Neeta Pandey.
Notably, the step is taken few months back after receiving a circular from Prime Ministers office (PMO), suggesting to initiate students exchange programme between the Government schools and private school students. The communiqué clearly mentioned that it is mandatory for the students of both public and private schools to get acquainted with each other method of teachings and learning procedures.