Focusing on learning outcomes of the Government school students, the Department of School Education and literacy will introduce workbook series for students of class 1 to class 9 from July this year as a part of remedial course programme.
This is a first of its kind initiative from the department’s side to perk up the conceptual learning of students studying in Government schools.
For the academic year 2018-19, the workbooks have been designed for a few selected subjects that include social science, languages and mathematics. Principal Secretary, Department of School Education and literacy, AP Singh on Sunday said that introduction of workbook in government schools is being done in accordance to the suggestions of NITI Ayog team which is supporting the State government to improve the quality of education being imparted among the students of government cradles through introducing innovative learning series programme.
“After school merger initiative, introduction of workbook series in government schools is the second major step towards transforming the status of government schools.
As many as 15 recommendations by far have been given by NITI Ayog team after studying the loopholes that persist even after launch of several government schemes for government school children,” said Singh.
In a bid to bring the government school students in a position to solve lower classes task effortlessly, the workbook pattern will play a vital role covering the fundamentals for the three major subjects.
“Simultaneously along with their course curriculum, students of class 1 to class 9 will be introduced to workbook series which will focus on conceptual knowledge based learning activities to aid them to carry on the previous class teachings,” Singh further added.
Following Right to Education (RTE) guidelines, taking into account the suggestions of NITI Aayog as well as the ranking of aspirational districts, the resource persons in association with the department have trained and expertise the teachers on different realms of workbooks usage in the class along with the regular course of study.
Singh further quoted that once workbooks use in class-rooms is popularized, it will further aid children in grabbing better ranking in National Assessment Test (NAT) conducted annually by Ministry of Human Resources, GoI.
“As per the requirement while considering the level of different competitive examinations, workbook contents have the matter,” he added.
According to Singh respective District Superintendents of Education (DSEs) have been instructed to ensure that the workbook series is introduced in each Government school of their respective districts.