NCERT To Adopt Schools For Raising Learning Outcome

New Delhi: The National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) will adopt government schools through its constituent unit in the states to help improve learning outcome in classes.

The Regional Institute of Education (RIE) under NCERT has its branches in Ajmer, Bhubaneswar, Bhopal and Mysore. According to NCERT’s plan of action, teachers from these RIEs will visit neighbouring village schools to assist them to improve their standard and quality of education, news portal The Print has reported.

The Adoption: 

“Our teachers will visit these schools regularly to interact with students and teachers and find out what their problems are. If they need help like teaching assistance or resources, our teachers will provide them with that,” NCERT Director Hrusikesh Senapati said.

If the initial plan proves successful, the adoption programme could be expanded to all the states. The programme will be taken up full steam in Tripura which had reached out to NCERT for assistance.

Senapati said more teachers and academics such as the IITs could be involved at a late stage in the exercise.

Quality Of Education Abysmally Low: 

NCERT, which formulates syllabus and governs the standard of pre-primary, primary, secondary and higher secondary education in the country, has been confronted with the challenge of quality outcome in classes.

Its own studies have revealed that the learning level remains abysmally low in government schools across rural and urban centres in India. Surveys carried out over successive years have shown that a class V student is unable to solve basic level of Maths of class III standard such as addition or subtraction.

Inputs To Be Used For Curriculum Setting: 

Senapati said the inputs and the feedback from the initial adoption of the village school programme will help NCERT to prepare the national education curriculum framework. The inputs might reflect in the next round of change in the school syllabus.

“The inputs that we get from the initial survey of schools under the adoption programme will be used for NCF. It will be clear from the inputs what students actually need to learn and where they lag behind. All of this will be kept in mind while preparing the new syllabus,” Senapathy told The Print.