Kohima, July 22 (MExN): The Department of School Education (DoSE), Nagaland today issued directives in consideration of the internet connectivity issues and the inability of primary section students, particularly from the remote areas to access the online education.
The Principal Director of School Education Shanavas C, IAS has issued the following directives to head of institutions of all government schools functioning in the State of Nagaland for ensuring effective implementation of continuous learning at all levels of schooling:
• Teachers should develop notes & worksheets based on topics given in text books for Classes Pre-Primary to IV.
• Teachers should develop notes & assignments for topics covered through the tele/radio online education programme first and then for other topics for Classes V to XII.
• School Heads should call parents of student’s class wise on different days/timings so as to follow social distancing in the beginning of the week and distribute the notes, worksheets/assignments etc.
• Parents should be notified for submitting the completed worksheets/assignments on a specific day in the next week. Schools should collect the completed worksheets/assignments of the previous week and distribute new notes, worksheets/assignments etc along with feedbacks of the previous worksheets/assignments submitted.
• School Heads should ensure that limited numbers of worksheets/assignments which shall be completed by students through self study alone are given to students.
• Teachers should record details of notes, worksheets/assignments prepared, distributed and feedbacks given etc in the teachers’ diary and the same shall be checked and countersigned by the school heads (Sample enclosed).
• Teachers should write their name at the right hand side top corner of each page of the Teachers’ Diary and School Heads shall append their signature at the space provided in each page along with Seal. School Heads shall ensure that the first page of Teachers Diary is completed in all aspects.
• The Department will introduce real time online tracking of teaching- learning activities being carried out in all government schools using mobile app for teachers from the first week of August 2020 and details of which will be notified in due course of time.
• All DEOs/Sr SDEOs/SDEOs should assign specific schools to field officers attached to their establishments for regular online monitoring of the teaching- learning activities using mobile app either from office or home.
• The details of Field Officers (Name, Email ID &WhatsApp Number) and Schools allotted to them should be submitted in MS Excel Format to the undersigned through email to ‘director.se.nagaland@gmail.com’ on or before July 29 without fail.
