THIRUVANATHAPURAM: The Curriculum Committee of the General Education Department has decided to increase the period for teachers teaching general foundation course in Vocational Higher Secondary Schools.
The meeting of the Committee held at the Government Guest House here on Wednesday also decided to increase the depth of subjects taught in general foundation course. The number of periods will be increased from four hours to six hours a week. Another decision was to include Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and health and physical education programmes in the school curriculum.
The meeting also decided to exclude questions from certain chapters of English, Mathematics and Social Science papers for the SSLC examinations of 2011.
However, these topics have to be taught in classes and included in the continuing evaluation process. The details of the chapters excluded from the examinations will be made public only in January.
Recognition for DPEd
The DPEd course offered in Karnataka will be recognised as equivalent to CPEd.
The meeting approved the curriculum for standard IX of special schools and the curriculum for technical schools. Another decision was to give approval to the new model of the SSLC certificates for special high schools.The decision to give age relaxation for those writing higher secondary examinations and the decision on mark exemptions for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Other Backward Caste students were deferred to the next meeting in the wake of the Model Code of Conduct for local body elections.
Education Minister M A Baby presided over the meeting.SCERT Director M A Khader, Higher Secondary Director V M Sunanda Kumari, Vocational Higher Secondary Director Johnny K John, SSA Director K V Kunhikrishnan, Curriculum Committee members P Govinda Pillai and C P Narayanan and representatives of the teachers organisations C Usman, N Sreekumar and J Sasi attended the meeting.