Medium and resources like digital media, online classes, voluntary support from the youths and D EL Ed /B Ed students and various other means are required to be harnessed. Child centric learning and change of method to adapt with the needs of the students is required. Parenting component is also an important factor of home-schooling, it was mentioned.
"During the lockdown period, many private and unorganised schools are also closed and the students going to such schools are equally deprived. Hence, extending support to students of private schools also will be the role of the teachers of the government schools so that education as a welfare activity is realised," said Thatal.
A proposal on home-schooling was submitted to the Government which was accepted and approved. Following guidelines in the form of circular are therefore issued by the Department on July 14 for the purpose of home-schooling in Sikkim during the lockdown period.
Home-schooling will cater to educational needs of students from Kindergarten to Class 8 as per the provisions of the Right of the Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009. There will be three levels of approach for home-schooling (i) for KG (ii) for Classes I to V and (iii) for VI to VIII with different strategy to cater to their educational needs.
Surveying and mapping physical locations of students and teachers will be done by the Block and Cluster Resource Centre Coordinators (BRCCs & CRCCs) to locate students and teachers along with any other individual (D El Ed, B Ed, college students, educated youths) willing and capable to cater to the educational needs of our students. Heads of Institutions (HoIs) should formulate strategies and map challenges. The HoIs will monitor, help and support the teachers in making learning happen effectively.
Teachers will have the liberty to adopt innovative and possible medium of teaching and as far as practicable, personal attention will be provided to the primary learners. However, for the students of Classes 6 to 8, a combination of digital learning and personal attention will be adopted.
Pre-primary teachers, primary teachers, graduate teachers, BRCCs, CRCCs will be engaged for this purpose at different levels. All the stakeholders will take active part in the home-schooling process.
Methods like meeting at suitable place other than school, visiting homes of students or calling the students to the homes of teachers with abundant precaution against viral infection, maintaining social distancing and other COVID-19 protocol would be adopted.
Curriculum slash and prioritization of learning at different levels will be analysed by the teachers. Essentially important contents as expected for a child at a given grade would be incorporated in the remaining part of the academic curriculum in line with the revised NCERT calendar and with the support of the SCERT.
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