Telangana to follow TN, to tread Karadi Path

​Hyderabad: After the success of ‘Karadi Path’ in Tamil Nadu’s 150 government schools, the unique English learning programme would be adopted in 71 Telangana Minority Residential (English Medium) Schools across the State.

According to officials, the core of the Karadi Path methodology lies in the natural way we acquire languages, whether it is the mother tongue or languages that we constantly hear around us. It is an indigenously created process for language acquisition based on how we learnt our mother tongue, multiple languages and in multiple places.

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Highlights:

• The programme designers are confident of achieving good results with its 96-hour sessions covering
• two academic years
• The TMREIS feels that with this programme, students without English background will be able to learn English and compete on par with students of corporate schools
• Interestingly, the Karadi Path programme designers would not be involved directly with the children, but the school faculty would be trained

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“This is not through teaching and not through instructions. It is basically through environment. It is a 15-year project in terms of looking at how to learn a language without learning the actual word, which is inspired by the Bear (Karadi) tales. It does not focus on words and meaning and grammar but delivers all the outputs by experiential persons, which has its own structure.

Learning itself will be non-linear, but the process will be linear. Through curriculum, we can do it but we may not achieve the outcome,” said a senior official of the Telangana Minority Residential (English Medium) Schools. The programme designers are confident of achieving good results in the next couple of years with its 96-hour sessions covering two academic years.

They claim that due to this programme a lot of attributes develop, because this is fully communicative process, where aspects of theatre, mime and presentation build their confidence levels automatically increase. “The presentation comes to fore and speaking skills also develop. It will deliver in much more powerful way than the programme specifically designed for communication skills, as this is more natural approach,” said Ranjani Meenakshi, Telangana regional head.

With its implementation, the Telangana Minority Residential Educational Institutions Society (TMREIS) feels that students without English background would be able to learn English and compete on par with students of corporate schools.

An interesting aspect of the programme is that the Karadi Path programme designers are not involved directly with the children, but the school faculty would be trained to do so. With 3 sessions of 45 minutes each every week, the programme designers would be monitoring its implementation.

The Telangana government gave its nod to the programme after its implementation in Telangana Social Welfare Residential schools. They would be charging Rs 38,700 per school.

“The teachers need to know Class IV Standard English. But what we need from the teachers is the willingness to be active in the class. The programme would be started from August 10,” Ranjani adds. Karadi Path has shown impressive results in Tamil Nadu (Class VI & VII), Bengaluru (VI, VII & VIII) and Goa (III & IV) where it has been implemented. There was 212% improvement in Tamil Nadu, 184% in Bengaluru and 178% in Goa, she said.

By: Md Nizamuddin