TS Summer Camps, Intelligent, Average, below average these are the categories which we see generally in any classroom.
A good teacher mainly concentrates on the poor students to achieve minimum levels in the students. But according to psychology, no two students are similar.
They differ in various activities either they are curricular, Co-curricular or extracurricular. But Telangana State Education Department is thinking that every student should achieve the stage of reading, writing, and arithmetic.
As surveys are saying schools are poor. It is clear that either it is private or government whole class never be the same, grasping exposure, expression, etc various competencies, achieving will differ. But we have to work hard to lift up them.
According to Summative Assessment I 384974 students are in C grade out of 10,00,000 students in our state. But those who are in C grades in present SA II are eligible for special summer schools. Which schools will function at school complexes.
These classes will be commenced from April 27th to May 31st this year. This program has been designed for 30 days Summer Camp at the primary level in Govt Schools.
The timings of the classes is from 8 am to 11 am. Telugu English, Maths workbooks are printed and it will be distributed to each center in the time.
For C grade children’s teaching-learning process CRP’s will be responsible and they will teach, look after these classes. The Stationary amount will be given by School Complex HMs to their center.
As every time there is a gap between opening and closing schools due to lack of reinforcement, students are stepping backward and for the next academic year, they are taking more periods to get on track.
So, this process may help them and move forward and understood the concepts easily. Then only this summer schools will achieve fruitful results.
Therefore, all the school complex headmasters are instructed to purchase 60 pencils, 60 erasers and 60 sharpeners for the total worth of Rs.800/- from the school complex grants towards the expenditure for stationary to run the summer camps and handover to the concerned CRPs.
Summer Camp Program Main Objective:
The main objective of the programme is to impart the basic skills such as
- Reading,
- Writing,
- Simple Arithmetic for those children who lack them.
In this regard the SPO, SSA has developed two workbooks, which facilitates the learner for practice and for reinforcement, a Cluster Resource person training module was also developed to equip the CRPs to teach the children for the summer camps and also for monitoring the academic activities in the schools.
A State Level TOT is being conducted from 25th to 27th March, 2015 at Hyderabad. With vide reference 2nd cited, instructions were given to DPOs to conduct the Divisional training programmes for CRPs from 29-31st March, 2015 by the DRGs who were trained at State level.
Summer Camps Timings:
The daily timings of the summer camps from 08.00 A.M. to 11.00 A.M in all working days and content of day to day curriculum will be as follows:
- Classes I & II – Telugu, English and Mathematics
- Classes III, IV & V – Telugu, English and Mathematics
Apart from the essential competencies, which are covered in the above 2 workbooks.
The children will be engaged in
- Aata, Paata, Creative sessions like
- Drawing of an imaginative concept, narrating stories, riddles etc., with
- Group play; origami, storytelling etc
Therefore, the District Educational Officers, the Project Officers of SSA are requested to undertake the printing of said workbooks as per their requirement by utilizing the existing budget available at DPO under training head or under management cost or any other head duly following the norms approved by the District collector.
The DPOs are requested to give instructions to concerned school complex H.Ms to release Rs. 800/- from the School Complex Grants to meet the expenditure to be incurred for stationary. Summer Camps for Low Achievers
Further the DEOs and P.Os of SSA are once again requested to conduct the training to CRPs at divisional level and take necessary steps for printing or workbooks and reach school complexes on or before 20th April.
TS School Summer Camp Program Strategy
The Strategy of the programme is as follows:
- Identification of low achievers i.e. children who are in C Grade of I to V classes based on Summative III Results of April
- Identification of Schools having 30 to 50 children of C grade by CRPs in each School Complex.
- Where the number of children are found to be more in ‘C’ grade, that particular school will be one of the center for the summer camp.
- The children of neighboring schools within the vicinity shall also be attached to this centre.
a) Allotment of CRPs:
If there are two CRPs working in one school complex, then these two CRPs shall be used for teaching and organizing the activities in summer camp. One CRP may handle the children who do not have basic skills of classes I and II and other CRP may handle the other classes III to V.
b) Summer Camp Schedule and Timings:
These classes will be conducted for 30-days as it may bring a consistent improvement among the children, and the classes will be conducted from April 27 to May 30 in all working days from 8.00 am to 11.00 am
c) Pre Test Will be Conducted
Initially a pre test will be conducted by the CRPs on the first day of the summer camp, to ascertain the gaps and achievement levels among the children.
d) Rs.800/- shall be provided for expenditure:
The concerned School Complex Head Master shall provide Rs. 800/- from the complex grants to meet the expenditure to be incurred for procuring of stationery items like
- Pencils,
- White sheets,
- Erasers ,
- Colour papers and for Photostat copies for conduct of pre-test and post-test.
e) Parents shall be informed
The parents shall be informed well in advance regarding the commencement of summer camp in the identified center for the identified needy children. The concerned MEO, school complex HM and CRP shall take necessary steps in this regard.
f) Post Test will be conducted:
After the summer camps, a post test will be conducted to know the improvement of the children and data will be recorded in the proforma given by the state office to know the improvement of the children.
Depending up the children ability ascertained by the pre-test, the workbooks will be given to the child either Class I & II workbook or Classes III, IV & V are both the workbooks as per their requirement.
The number of children to be covered in 1809 school complexes is 90,450 children @ max 50 children per center. It is proposed to provide workbooks to each centre is as follows
- Classes I & II – 25 books
- Classes III, IV & V – 35 books,
- Total 60 workbooks may be supplied for each center identified for summer camp.
g) CRPs shall collect workbook:
Children can use pencil and eraser for practicing the workbooks during summer camp. After completion of the summer camp, the CRPs shall collect workbooks from children and re-use these workbooks and unused workbooks to the children who lack basic skills during readiness prgoramme to be conducted in regular schools for practicing.
And also for regular practice during remedial teaching given by the teacher during regular school hours.
h) Used and Un Used Work books shall be handed over:
After completion of the summer camp, the used and unused workbooks shall be collected from the children and shall be handed over to concerned school complex HM for further use by the needy children.
Therefore, depending on the number of centres to be organized in the district, the number of workbooks shall be printed as said above. TS Schools Summer Camp Programs Guidelines. Download the Rc.90 Proceeding from here