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.
