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PANJIM: With a focus on community guided learning, the Directorate of Education (DoE) has asked schools to rope in volunteers including students, who have passed out from school or college and not pursuing anything further along with National Service Scheme (NSS) and National Cadet Corps (NCC) members, to provide education to the children within their home vicinity, in case there are no teachers or school head residing.
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A communication in this regard has been sent to all the secondary and higher secondary schools by DoE Director Santosh Amonkar.
In the communication, Amonkar said that many consistent efforts have been made to ensure continuous learning through online education and other alternative means of learning.
To address the same, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) have prepared “Students Learning Enhancement Guidelines” with the focus of learning outcomes.
NCERT in its guidelines has laid focus on community education programme Each One-Teach One, in the present scenario and a school guided community support.
The DoE has asked schools to identify educated youth residing in the neighbourhood and may be designated as volunteers to teach the children within their vicinity under the guidance of mentor teacher, to be nominated by the school.
The volunteers will help the mentor teacher to distribute practice sheets, formative assessment question papers to the students, collect the answer papers from the students and get them evaluated by the subject teachers and take up the remedial teaching.
“Neighbourhood group meetings of volunteers, teachers, parents and other community members, such as youth advisers, retired teachers, retired government employees can be held at homes of children, community centres, religious places, under the trees, maintaining social distance norms,” Amonkar said.
