TS Schools English Remedial Teaching material for 3Rs Competencies Improvement.
TS Schools English Remedial Teaching material for 3Rs Competencies Improvement. SCERT has decided to adapt the ‘Bridging The Gap Activity’ across the State to achieve minimum competencies among the children before using their textbooks for all classes. Majority of the teachers expressed their inability to transact the lessons of low proficiency of English among the children. It is almost like an introductory course in the new pedagogy of learning English. Most of the teachers felt that the need of experiential mode of training and special strategies for low proficient learners
This Bridging The GapActivity has been tried out successfully in 42 Government Primary Schools of Narketpally Mandal, Naalgonda District in spite of facing the challenging situations like:
1.First generation learners
2.Single teacher handling more classes
3. Lack of proper ambience at school
4. Inadequate language apparatus
5.Traditional belief system of teaching and learning English
Objectives of the ‘Bridging The Gap’
1. Creating English environment by overcoming inhibitions among children.
2. To encourage the children to express their opinions freely in their own English.
3. To enable them to achieve minimum Academic Standards as the children develop conversations, descriptions, story/ narrative orally and in written form.
4. To develop classroom interaction based on pictures without using textbook.
5. The positive sign of using English freely by the children in the classroom gives encouragement to the teachers to try out this new pedagogy effectively.
Strategies for Bridging The Gap
1. Select three (3) different pictures having more scope, interaction for generating description, conversation and narrative/ story both oral and written (picture of different subjects of the same class and other pictures may be considered).
2. Use first picture for whole class activity.
3. Use second picture for group activity.
4. Use third picture for individual activity.
Day | Discourse | Strategy/ Activity |
1 2 3 4 5 |
Description Description Editing the Group Descriptions Description Editing the Individual Descriptions |
Whole class activity Group activity Editing Individual activity Editing |
6 7 8 9 10 |
Conversation Conversation Editing the Group Conversations Conversation Editing the Individual Conversations |
Whole class actvity Group activity Editing Individual activity Editing |
11 12 13 14 15 |
Story writing Story writing Editing the Group Stories/ Narratives Story writing Editing the Individual Stories/ Narratives |
Whole class activity Group activity Editing Individual activity Editing |
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