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From turning walls of mud houses into blackboards to taking classes through loudspeakers on moving carts, from ‘mohalla’ classes to using public announcement system of panchayat bhawans, 2020 was full of struggle and innovation for teachers to ensure learning was not disrupted as schools remained closed due to COVID-19 by Press Trust Of India.
From turning walls of mud houses into blackboards to taking classes
through loudspeakers on moving carts, from ‘mohalla’ classes to using
public announcement system of panchayat bhawans, 2020 was full of
struggle and innovation for teachers to ensure learning was not
disrupted as schools remained closed due to COVID-19.
Online classes
Photo: Hindustan Times
The over 10-month-long shutdown inspired creative ways to teach thousands of students who could not log on to online classes because they did not have access to smartphones and computers in several villages across the country.
Government school teachers in Dumka’s Dumarthar village in Jharkhand found a new way to impart education to students who do not have access to smartphones. They created blackboards on the walls of students’ houses to teach them while maintaining social distancing. “We started with an initiative called ‘shiksha aapke dwaar’ (education at your doorstep) to provide education to children who did not have access to smartphones and internet. More than 100 blackboards have been created on walls to teach students at their houses,” said Tapan Kumar, a teacher in Dumarthar.
Every day, Indra Mukhi Chhetri, a maths and science teacher in Sikkim’s Ravangala, visited homes of several students she identified and reached out to around 40 students in a week from class 1 to 5...
The lockdown induced by COVID-19 in March prompted schools and colleges to move to the virtual world for teaching and learning activities and exposed the existing digital divide in the country.
Source: Hindustan Times
