Students of Classes I-III to get activity-rich, colourful textbooks when schools reopen

Colourful, activity-rich textbooks with the caller syllabus awaits students of Class I-III arsenic schools reopen connected June 4.

The caller syllabus formulated successful December has mainstreamed the Ennum Ezhuthum scheme, which antecedently had 4 chiseled categories with abstracted workbooks and textbooks to cater to children falling nether assorted types of learning.

“The cardinal operator was to determination the kid distant from memorising lessons for examinations. We wanted the kid to larn by understanding, enjoying and applying the learning successful his life,” said schoolhouse acquisition caput B. Chandra Mohan.

Pointing retired that the unsocial origin of the textbooks was the teaching of the concept, helium said that each conception is taught successful a joyful, engaging and experiential manner. “Basic literacy and numeracy are introduced done stories, rhymes, songs, games, conversations and originative activities due to the fact that children larn champion erstwhile they are emotionally connected and actively progressive successful the learning process,” helium said.

For the archetypal time, the textbook besides has a socio-emotional constituent wherever societal skills are incorporated successful students successful the signifier of discussions and allows the students to unfastened up successful classes. “When a teacher notes that a kid is not precise participative, the teacher volition walk clip with them successful different classes, specified arsenic worth education, to get the kid to unfastened up,” an authoritative with the schoolhouse acquisition section said

Chandra Mohan besides noted that each section integrates values, beingness skills and age-appropriate centrifugal skills into the learning process. “Along with literacy and numeracy, children besides larn empathy, teamwork, discipline, practice and respect for others, due to the fact that each acquisition indispensable physique some competence and character,” helium said.

Gender equality

Further, the books see tiny drawings astatine the extremity of each leafage depicting instances of sharing, cleanliness, and different themes. Noting that the Kerala textbooks picture sex equality, with a begetter cutting vegetables successful the kitchen, the authoritative said that Tamil Nadu textbooks person been showing this for the past 10 years.

“This twelvemonth too, we person assorted pictures crossed lessons depicting men taking portion successful household chores and women taking up jobs. We person besides made a conscious determination to showcase assorted types of families successful the textbooks arsenic families request not mean conscionable father, parent and child,” the authoritative said.

With that successful mind, the textbooks present see azygous parent families, wherever successful a acquisition it shows a parent who works successful a slope and the kid counts the parent and the feline arsenic a full family. “Many children travel from single-parent households; we request to amusement practice and validate them too,” the authoritative pointed out.

Teacher’s handbook

As teachers volition person to thatch the caller syllabus, the State Council of Educational Research and Training has prepared a teachers’ handbook which not lone gives directions connected however to thatch a lesson, but besides however to tackle the questions posed by students. Further, the handbook besides has further stories and songs to prosecute the students, officials said.

Keeping successful caput that authorities schools would person a azygous teacher handling aggregate classes of children successful a azygous classroom, the handbooks besides assistance the teachers with methods to thatch the assorted classes. As the syllabus expands arsenic the kid moves guardant successful classes, the teacher would lone person to grow connected the thought which they would person antecedently learned.

Further, the handbook comes with QR codes which holds a video of the lessons and a exemplary teaching lesson. The teacher would not adjacent request to marque a acquisition plan, this video would assistance them to instrumentality an full class, officials add.

In this respect maestro teachers were trained connected the caller textbooks astatine the State-level successful the metropolis the erstwhile week. The Secretary said that these maestro teachers would bid the teachers astatine the territory and block-level. “The block-level teacher would beryllium the constituent of interaction for teachers regarding the textbook grooming which volition statesman connected June 1 for them,” helium said.