HYDERABAD: The long lasting demand to have a uniform syllabus for pre-primary classes in Telangana is going to be a reality soon. With the school education department’s efforts to regularise pre-primary education in the state, the unapproved study material that is widely being used in private pre-primary schools will soon be replaced with a standard syllabus designed by the Telangana State Council for Education Research and Training (SCERT).
The school education department, as part of its plans to revamp pre-primary education, is also planning to introduce a training course for teachers who teach Nursery, LKG and UKG classes. Like Bachelor of Education (BEd) and Diploma in Education (D.Ed), this course would be made mandatory for teachers to teach in both private and government schools.
Following the directions of the school education department, the SCERT has already began preparations to design the new teacher training diploma course. The officials at SCERT said a workshop has been planned to discuss the content for both pre-primary syllabus and the teacher training course. Some of the initiatives of the Pondicherry model are likely to be adopted, an official said.
With these steps, the school education department is aiming at bringing uniformity in pre-primary education. Though the GO No 1 clearly states that school education department must prepare the syllabus for pre-primary classes, it was not implemented.
With no mechanism to monitor them, private schools have been enjoying complete autonomy in the curriculum and the fee structure. It was only after a nursery student died in a lift accident in a private school in Hyderabad recently, the government has decided to regularise pre-primary schools.
From the next academic onwards, it would become mandatory for all pre-primary schools to get an approval from the respective district education officers (DEO)s. School education commissioner G Kishan said all the unrecognised schools will be closed down.