Daijiworld Media Network – (NR)
Mangalore, Dec 2: A multi- centric study conducted recently in the DK district by College of Leadership and Human Resources Development throws up a few interesting facts. According to this study thinking and speaking skills are missing amongst children in DK district, and this aspect needs urgent correction in schools where teaching is imparted, it advises.
According to the DIET principal Philomena Lobo, the study conducted across 14 sections of the society in DK district makes around 12 recommendations on the matter. Majority of which can be easily implemented at school-level, while rest will require government’s intervention and support, she adds.
The need of the hour, however is for developing competent thinking and speaking among children, through a total revamp in curriculum, syllabi and teaching methods, recommends this study on public opinions on effectiveness of primary education in the district.
The study also recommends a cell in school to counsel illiterate parents who have been forced by circumstances to make their children to give up studies. Various means of extending financial aid to poor students by schools through parents should be discovered and a redressal system set in place to solve the complaints of students, informs the study.
Moreover the study recommends government to initiate teaching training programmes to equip teachers with adequate competence to teach English, expose them to new methods of teaching, assessing knowledge, preventing a feeling of alienation among students and sensitising them about corporal punishment.
Further it makes a strong recommendation for special training to be imparted to school headmasters. This recommendation has been done, as the study panel had been told by many that if the headmasters lead from the front, automatically the school too will start functioning properly and hence in view of this fact the report reads and recommends empowerment of headmasters with newer concepts of leadership.
Finally the report also exhorts the education department to have regular interactions with stakeholders in primary education to enhance its quality. It advises the department to increase awareness within a community on learning and teaching methods and even garner critical comments for self improvement.