The Directorate of Education (DoE) of the Delhi Government has geared up to bridge the learning gap and re-build the foundational competencies of students in the new academic session.
The new academic session in Delhi Government Schools is starting from April 1 and it would be the first time that students would be attending the new session physically after a series of lockdowns because of the Covid-19 pandemic in the last two years, the DoE said in a statement.
Director of Education, Himanshu Gupta, conducted a meeting on Monday and directed officials of Government schools to exclusively focus on emotional well-being and foundational skills in the first quarter of session 2022-23 for students of classes 3-9th. Explaining the rationale of the approach, Gupta said that the class-wise syllabus would be reduced to give opportunity to every child to not just re-build their foundational competencies but also build conceptual clarity before taking up subject-wise topics.
“Teachers will be specially trained to address learning related issues of children in the new session and implement the two-phase plan in schools. A weekly review will be conducted by the Director of Education to assess the implementation of the plan,” he added.
Principal Advisor to Director Education, Shailendra Sharma, highlighted the need of teaching the students at a level where they are at, rather than imposing the syllabus. “The focus in schools would be on basic reading, writing and numeracy skills under ‘Mission Buniyaad’, so that a strong foundation is laid for the students,” he said.
"This year, the DoE has decided to include students of 9th standard especially in the ‘Happiness Class’ and ‘Mission Buniyaad’ classes as all their previous classes in the past two years were conducted online and they might need assistance to recover from the learning loss in the past two years," the DoE said in a statement.