Teachers, it's time to make lessons fun

HYDERABAD: The state government schools will soon have a modernised curriculum for classes I to V, with more stress given to interactive learning sessions between the teacher and students.
The commissioner of school education is preparing proposals for a curriculum change that will update content and introduce innovations in the presentation of lessons.The assessment system too will be improved.
Speaking to The Times of India , school education commissioner K Ramakrishna Rao said the changes are likely to be in place in two years.
The highlight will be on how lessons are presented in class by the teacher. There will be more projects to make learning a participative exercise for the pupil.
"Instead of the teacher explaining what is there in the text-book, we will have more interaction between the teacher and the student," Ramakrishna Rao said.
"Text-books will no longer be the only source of information and learning. Knowledge will be imparted through various other techniques. A panel of experts including writers and educationists will be roped in for formulating the new curriculum. "We are looking at four authors and four editors per subject per class," said K Ananda Kishore, the director of the State Council for Education, Research and Training.
The new curriculum will be ready for testing by March 2006 when it will be taught in some schools. On the basis of feedback received from students and teachers, printing of new text-books will start in November-December 2006 in time for the academic year 2007-08. "We don''t want to hurry it. We want to approach this curriculum change in a scientific manner and do it right," said Ramakrishna Rao.