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English teachers fare badly
Not only pupils, teachers who teach English language in Nellore schools have also to improve their skills.
- Secure 41 per cent marks in teaching methodology
- Nellore dist education officials organise five-day orientation classes for teachers
Nellore: Not only pupils, teachers who teach English language in Nellore schools have also to improve their skills.
A proficiency test conducted by the SCERT for teachers of Model Primary Schools triggered immediate need for betterment of language skills among teachers as they secured poor results in the test.
Commissioner of School Education, Andhra Pradesh, decided to conduct proficiency test in English for the identified teachers of English in the Model Primary Schools and the test was held on April 3.
The test was at intermediate level and questions were given for evaluating their abilities in reading, vocabulary, grammar, expression, learning process, writing, arrangement of words and teaching methodology.
Around 3,400 teachers attended the exam. About 160 selected teachers from Model Primary Schools in the district at one teacher from each school took the test.
The test was online and they need to simply answer the question with a mouse-click. In all, 161 schools in the district have been selected and they were converted into model primary schools where language teaching was started from Class-3.
Each school is having more than 100 students and there has been no shortage of teachers in these schools since they were designed to make them model ones in the district. There are around 16,000 students in all these schools.
Here, teachers are also not focusing on improving their teaching skills.
Interestingly, Nellore teachers obtained only 12th position in the State with around 49 pc of marks. Now, there are being trained by principal of a government training institute for making them a bit strong in teaching skills. Teachers obtained only 41 pc in teaching methodology which is pivotal for language teaching.
District Education Officer M Ramalingam said they had provided orientation for five days on language teaching to 171 teachers of Model Primary Schools duly identifying their needs after observing performance in the test. This would be useful for them to improve standards among students, he added.
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