1School Academic Calendar of Telangana State by SCERT Telangana | SCERT Proposals for Rationalisation of SAchools and Teachers in Telangana
Rationalization
of Schools and Teachers
Following is the data on distribution of schools
across enrollment slabs.
Sl.
No. |
Type of
school
|
Schools
|
Zero
|
1-10
|
11-20
|
21-30
|
31-40
|
41-50
|
51-60
|
61-70
|
71-80
|
81-90
|
91-100
|
>100
|
1
|
Primary
Schools
|
18139
|
398
|
980
|
2333
|
3747
|
2718
|
1283
|
719
|
1302
|
699
|
362
|
731
|
2867
|
2
|
Upper
Primary Schools
|
3244
|
4
|
10
|
39
|
119
|
190
|
247
|
258
|
285
|
277
|
293
|
248
|
1274
|
3
|
High Schools
|
4583
|
3
|
2
|
4
|
7
|
26
|
29
|
72
|
83
|
155
|
186
|
203
|
3813
|
The
School Education statistics i.e. DISE 2015-16 shows that the schools are
functioning with low strength and uneconomic in terms of providing teachers and
manage the curriculum implementation effectively. This leads to provision of
two (2) teachers mostly for each Primary School who are responsible to teach
all the subjects. If one teacher is on leave, the remaining teacher manages the
children and attend Mid Day Meals etc. without focusing on curriculum.
·
Single
teacher Primary Schools and clubbing of schools within the same compound and
habitations: A decision may be taken to club the
schools functioning in the same campus or in the same habitation within 1 KM
radius duly following the enrolment norms. this facilitates for providing more
number of teachers i.e. at least three (3) teachers in Primary School i.e. 1
teacher completely responsible for teaching Telugu/ Urdu and the second teacher
teaches English for classes I to V and third teacher teaches Mathematics from
classes I to V. This facilitates capacity building of subject teachers in their
subject and held responsible for the outcomes rather than teaching different
subjects to different classes.
·
Merging
of UP Schools with nearby High Schools
o
The
structure of schools: At present the schools are operating in
three ways i.e. Primary Schools, Upper Primary Schools and High Schools.
o
In the case of UP Schools sufficient
staff structure is not available i.e. there no teacher in each subject for
teaching. One School Assistant for Maths and Science and another for Social and
English. In this case, the Science teacher cannot teach Maths and similarly the
Social teacher cannot teach English. Further, the minimum working periods are
not being taught by the teachers. The UP sections are not viable and justice is
not being done to children. In case of High Schools, there is a teacher for
every subject. Therefore, quality can be ensured in High Schools but not in
Upper Primary Schools.
o
Therefore, it is proposed to have two
types of schools i.e. Primary and High Schools and do away with Upper Primary
Schools. There is a 3 KMs distance norm for UP Schools. However, High Schools
are available in most of the habitations within 3 KMs. In case wherever there
is no High School within the radius of 5 KMs, the existing Upper Primary
Schools may be upgraded to High Schools. All the UP Schools may be merged
nearby High Schools.
o
Certain High Schools are working with
strength of 40 or 50 children and below 75 and such schools are being
functional within the area of 1 or 2 KMs. The actual norm for High School is 5
KMs i.e. a High School within the radius of 5 KMs.
This need to be discussed and a decision may be
taken on the rationalization of schools by clubbing the low strength uneconomic
schools and establish a good school with all facilities at Gram Panchayat/
Cluster Level with good ambience, library, compound wall, ICT facilities with
five (5) teachers and one Headmaster.
