10/07/2021 - Education | Mainstorming

Abdul hakkim 3 years

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IAS Parliament 3 years

Try to include some of the recent initiatives related to online learning. Keep Writing.

IAS Parliament 3 years

KEY POINTS

· The proportion of India’s children attending a government school has now declined to 45 per cent

· India’s 100 per cent plus school enrolment masks challenges; a huge dropout ratio and poor learning outcomes.

· Recent government school action class sizes, salaries, qualifications, Rs 5 lakh crore Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan spending needs supplementing with difficult reforms.

· Performance management, currently equated with teacher attendance, needs evaluation of scores, skills, competence and classroom management.

· Classroom management needs assessment by classroom observation of learning (teaching often happens without learning), physical set-up, instructional differentiation (for process, product, and learning styles), and communication (clarity, questioning, responsiveness).

· The poor have been at the receiving end of the elite-favouring dichotomy between government-provided regional language instruction and professional courses including civil service examinations in English.

· In 2020, Andhra Pradesh made English the medium of instruction for classes 1 to 4 while making Telugu and Urdu a compulsory second language.

· India’s constitution wrote Education Policy into Lists I (Centre), II (State), and III (concurrent jurisdiction);

· this fragmentation needs revisiting because it tends to concentrate decisions that should be made locally in Delhi or state capitals.