Ludhiana, Dec 04: Now the principal and headmasters of government senior secondary schools of the state will conduct weekly meetings of class monitors, who will give feedback about the teachers to the school heads. These instructions have been issued by Krishan Kumar, Director General, Sarv Shiksha Abhiya, Punjab, under “Monitor diary” project of Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan, Punjab.
“The DGSA issued these instructions through tele-conferencing to all the school heads and principals of Punjab. The ‘monitor’s diary’ project was launched in the last week of October, under which the class monitors give feed-back to the school head about the teachers who teach them different subjects in different classes,” a school principal told Newsline on the condition of anonymity.
The DGSA has also urged the teachers not to mark short leave in digits i.e 1/3 but to write it in words as “one third”. About this, Pardeep Kumar Kapoor, District Science Supervisor, said, “This has been done to avoid any ambiguity because sometimes teachers mark leave as 1/3 on the day they take short leave but enjoy full day, and next day they when they come back to the school they re-write the digit 3 as 2 and this way they mark the previous day attendance as 1/2 and save their half day. So the DGSA asked all the teachers and staff members of government schools not to mark it in digits but in letters.”
The DGSA also asked the teachers to interact with the parents of wards, who miss the monthly exams of mathematics, science, English and social-studies.
With all these instructions, there is simmering resentment among government school teachers, who have now started trotting out lame excuse of over-work.
It needs to be mentioned here that it has been observed many a time by the officers of the Education Department that many teachers either do not go to classes on time or do not teach properly. But this is the first time that Director General, SSA, Punjab has pulled up the teachers for their lethargic attitude, and this has led to resentment among the teachers.
–Agencies