Upper primary schools to have ‘English Corners’
Shivani Bhakoo
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, September 25
“English Corners” would be established in 6,253 upper primary schools in the state, stated the Director General School Education here today.
The Education Department has sanctioned a sum of Rs 62.53 lakh for establishing the English Corners in schools in all the districts of the state. Though the teaching fraternity has welcomed the decision aimed at improving English skills of students, they felt Rs 1,000 per school was too little to set up the corners.
They said the sum was not enough to buy the material that the department had suggested for establishing the corners.
As per letter issued by the State Project Director, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Authority, Punjab, to all the District Education Officers (DEO), the supplementary material in the English Corners would aid in making English language classrooms more communicative and student-centered.
The suggested items for the English Corners include story flash cards, consonant vowel cards, grammar flash cards, word-pitara cards and a teacher’s manual, pictionary, dictionary, cornucopia, hand-made charts, still models, toys, board-games, pronunciation charts, project files, content-based English DVDs, etc.
A government schoolteacher of the subject said, "The sum of Rs 1,000 is just not enough. Today, the cost of a good model or a game is no less than Rs 500. I feel this will hardly serve any purpose.”
Ludhiana has got the maximum funds (Rs 5,23,000) to cover 523 schools. The other districts to be funded for the project are Amritsar, Barnala, Bathinda, Faridkot, Fazilka, Jalandhar, Ropar, Patiala, SBS Nagar, Mohali, Gurdaspur, Jalandhar and Sangrur.
Shivani Bhakoo
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, September 25
“English Corners” would be established in 6,253 upper primary schools in the state, stated the Director General School Education here today.
The Education Department has sanctioned a sum of Rs 62.53 lakh for establishing the English Corners in schools in all the districts of the state. Though the teaching fraternity has welcomed the decision aimed at improving English skills of students, they felt Rs 1,000 per school was too little to set up the corners.
They said the sum was not enough to buy the material that the department had suggested for establishing the corners.
As per letter issued by the State Project Director, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Authority, Punjab, to all the District Education Officers (DEO), the supplementary material in the English Corners would aid in making English language classrooms more communicative and student-centered.
The suggested items for the English Corners include story flash cards, consonant vowel cards, grammar flash cards, word-pitara cards and a teacher’s manual, pictionary, dictionary, cornucopia, hand-made charts, still models, toys, board-games, pronunciation charts, project files, content-based English DVDs, etc.
A government schoolteacher of the subject said, "The sum of Rs 1,000 is just not enough. Today, the cost of a good model or a game is no less than Rs 500. I feel this will hardly serve any purpose.”
Ludhiana has got the maximum funds (Rs 5,23,000) to cover 523 schools. The other districts to be funded for the project are Amritsar, Barnala, Bathinda, Faridkot, Fazilka, Jalandhar, Ropar, Patiala, SBS Nagar, Mohali, Gurdaspur, Jalandhar and Sangrur.
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