TN Government & Government aided schools students facing the academic loss of more than six months due to the pandemic lock down, the State government is planning to implement bridge courses for students from Class 1 to 8 – who do not have board exams – before they are promoted to the next standard. This would help about 27 lakhs government and aided school students from these classes, said official sources.Due to the lock down, the schools across the State were not able to function since March, and authorities do not have a schedule on reopening the educational institutions as on date.
Even after reopening, the students from Classes 1 to 8 who do not have board exams would have fewer academic sessions. This puts the children, especially those from the government and aided schools, at a serious disadvantage when compared to private school students who have been having online classes,
As per the plan, the short-term course would only focus on important topics from the syllabus.
“Now, discussions are going on about creating contents for the bridge courses, which could be easily understood by the children, so that they would be confident when promoted to the next class,” the official said. The authorities part of the effort are also getting suggestions from academicians and experts to create the training content for the bridge course, he said, adding that there would not be any test or examination at the end of the course.
Teachers would also be trained in conducting bridge courses, said the official, noting that regular classes would be conducted simultaneously. “Course materials will be printed and distributed to all the State-run schools,” he added.The bridge courses will help ensure that they have the required knowledge to get promoted to the next class,” said a senior official from the School Education Department. Bridge courses are supplementary learning material, which is the shortened version of the subject, and the SCERT has been entrusted the task of creating their content and design. “The council officials will seek guidance from the academicians and teachers before finalizing the content,” he added. “The book will come handy for the students to get the required knowledge for promotion to the next class.
The official said that the course materials would be printed in both Tamil and English so that all the 27 lakh students from the State-run schools would be benefited. “The bridge course material will be distributed to teachers before it is given to the students so that they would be prepared to take classes based on that,” he added.
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