Remedial teaching for slow learners

Our Correspondent

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Mandi Ahmedgarh, January 7

The Education Department has started remedial teaching for slow learners. The venture will be applicable for science and maths students studying in Class X.

Target students will include only 20 per cent of the general category students, while the 60 per cent and 20 per cent chunk will be from the SC and minority categories.

This is a revised notification from the DGSE office. The notification issued on January 2 mentioned that remedial coaching would be for the students of classes IX and X. It stated that 20 per cent of the students would be shortlisted for the coaching.

In all, 16,520 students from 3,389 schools of the state will be benefited from the supplementary teaching project. In 332 schools of Ludhiana district, 1,399 will be identified for the venture while 1,086 students of 206 schools of Sangrur district are to be identified.

District Education Officers and heads of various schools have been advised to start remedial teaching.

Perusal of communiqué received by heads of government and private aided schools of the region from the office of Director General, School Education, Punjab, stated that slow learners would be imparted remedial teaching. Although district science supervisors have been asked to submit the final list of students to the headquarters before January 20, school heads have been asked to start the coaching.

Deputy State Project Director, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan, Punjab, has advised the authorities to ensure that parents give written consent.

Sources in the department said the progress of the project would be monitored by the state authorities.

Heads at various schools of the region falling under Sangrur and Ludhiana districts claimed that they had already advised in charges of designated classes to identify beneficiary students and take written consent from their parents before commencing the teaching.