The Coimbatore Corporation and American India Foundation may soon start a facility to train teachers and the former may also improve its infrastructure in schools to facilitate teachers to use information communication technology tools to improve teaching-learning.
Mayor P. Rajkumar had promised to improve the infrastructure in the 83 Corporation schools at a function held at the Corporation school in Maniakarampalayam to celebrate Children’s Day and launch the ‘Clean School Clean Coimbatore’ campaign, sources said.
The sources said that the facility would help teachers create digital content and use the same for teaching students. The present situation was that though there were content available online, the teachers were trained to harness the same.
It would be a part of the Digital Equalizer programme the Foundation had been conducting in Corporation schools in the last two years, said Foundation’s India director J. Sundarakrishnan.
He also said that the organisation had launched the cleaning campaign as part of the Prime Minister’s call for Swachch Bharat or Clean India.
The students had supervised the cleaning of schools and that would continue. They would be told about individual cleanliness and also that of school, its neighbourhood, water, food and toilet. Every week the students would be encouraged to take up one of the six and it would continue in cycles.
At the programme, the Mayor administered pledge to students.
Mr. Sundarakrishnan added that 70 employees from Dell had also played an active role in cleaning the schools.
