MHRD releases ‘stay at home’ calendar for upper primary students
Atul Krishna | April 23, 2020 | 03:09 PM IST | 1 min read
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Human Resource Development on Thursday released an ‘alternative academic calendar’ for the upper primary level (Classes 6 to 8) to help students study during the lockdown.
As the nationwide lockdown has been further extended till May 3 due to the COVID-19 epidemic, schools have been forced to resort to online classes.
The calendar, prepared the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), aims to help schools with this task. A similar calendar for secondary school – Classes 9 to 12 – will be released soon.
Without internet
It provides guidelines to teachers and parents on how to use technological tools and social media platforms, such as WhatsApp and Youtube, to enhance students’ learning. However, as the HRD minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ pointed out, many students do not have access to the internet. “The calendar guides teachers to further guide parents and students through SMS on mobile phones or through voice call,” he said in the statement.
It has class-wise and subject-wise activities, including activities for four languages as subject areas- Hindi, Urdu, English and Sanskrit. The calendar also provides activities related to arts education and physical health education.
The ministry, in a statement, said that the calendar will also include audio books, radio programmes, video programmes for Children with Special Needs.
The ministry had earlier released a similar calendar for primary students (Classes 1 to 5) on April 16.
Also read:
Coronavirus: ‘Study at home’ calendar for primary school from NCERT
Lockdown: Children’s time online has increased and so have the risks
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