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Remedial teaching programme in high schools from this year

MYSORE: Encouraged by the impressive results of the remedial teaching programme for slow learners in primary schools, the State Government has decided to extend it to high schools in the State from this academic year.

Heads of the 4,800 government high schools in the State have been intimated to start the remedial teaching classes to slow learners in eighth, ninth and 10th standards after assessing students’ capabilities during the first three months. Disclosing this to The Hindu, Commissioner for Public Instruction G. Kumar Naik said the programme envisages identification of slow learners through a “pre-test”. Extra classes will be held for them to bridge the “learning gaps”.

After the pre-test, slow learners will be categorised in accordance with the level of difficulty they encounter in various subjects. “High schools have been asked to prepare a matrix that identifies ‘weak’ students and the subjects they find tough to learn,” he said.

The programme launched by the Education Department in government primary schools had been received “well” by the students. Extra classes were held for the benefit of slow learners between November and March in the last academic year.

He said the Government had decided to start the programme after a survey revealed that 20 per cent of students in government primary schools were unable to read, write or possess the level of mathematical skills expected of them.

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