The Directorate of Education (DoE), Delhi has come up with an initiative to bridge the gap in competency, caused due to the Covid 19 pandemic in students from classes 3-9, from the next academic session. The next academic session is supposed to commence from April next month, and students will be attending offline classes after a gap of 2 years, the DoE stated.
The Director of Education, Himanshu Gupta, called upon all Deputy Directors of Education, (DDEs) and Head of Schools, (HoSs) of the government run schools in Delhi for a meeting and requested them to exclusively focus on the emotional well being of the students and improve the foundational skills in the first quarter of 2022-23 for students of classes 3-9.
The DoE has come up with a plan, divided into two phases, to bridge the gap in competencies among students of 3-9. Explaining the objective of the initiative, he elaborated that the syllabus for the year would be reduced so that the students could also focus on gaining conceptual clarity other than building their foundational competencies.
Teachers will receive additional training to deal with the children’s educational demands and also implement the two phase policy in schools. A committee of the director of education will assess the performance of the plan weekly, the statement stated. The plan includes classes of two hours duration daily at Delhi government schools for the happiness curriculum, basic reading classes and numeracy under mission ‘Buniyaad’ from the new session.
A grand PTM will be organized in early April to make parents aware of ‘Mission Buniyaad’ and also to request them to send their children to schools daily. The meeting comprised of Principal Advisor to Director of Education Shailendra Sharma, Additional Director (School) Rita Sharma and Director of Education, Himanshu Gupta, discussing the initiative in details with the HOSs and teachers.
Shailendra Sharma, the principal advisor to the Director of Education pointed out the need to teach students in the level students were occupying rather than imposing the syllabus on them. The focus of the schools should be on basic reading, writing and numeracy.
