Har govt to monitor schools to enhance education standards

Haryana Education Department has decided to conduct a monitoring drive of about 250 schools in the state every fortnight to assess and enhance the minimum learning level of students.
Stating this here today, additional chief secretary, School Education, P K Das said the monitoring of about 200 schools was done in December, 2016, and direct interactions were held with about 25,000 students.
"On the basis of this monitoring, it could be said that the situation in terms of minimum learning level is not disappointing and the mindset that students of government schools do not know anything is also wrong," he said in an official release here.

He said in terms of district-wise overall performance, Mahendragarh, Gurugram and Rewari were among the top three whereas Panchkula, Mewat and Palwal were among the bottom three, with Panchkula performing worse than Mewat.
He said 13 districts had performed above the state average.
Das said the assessment was conducted of the teaching tasks of each teacher, learning level of student, and learning level according to subjects being taught and class of the student.

"The students were given more than a week to prepare for the test, which comprised five questions of each subject taken from monthly examination organised in November, 2016. The questions included subjective and at least one long-answer type question.

"Assessment was done on the basis of Hindi, English and mathematics in Classes I, III and V, and five subjects in Classes VII and IX," he said.
The schools which have failed to achieve the normative level of performance have been warned and would be monitored again after three months. A meeting of staff and members of management committees of schools was also held to enhance the role being played by monitoring officers in progress of education, he added.