Hry edu dept launches catchup prog for pre-promotion learning

School Education Department of Haryana has launched Skill Passbook and Catchup Programmes to improve the quality of education in government schools, state Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma today said.
The state government has decided to start a Class Readiness Programme (CRP) to utilise the early learning days in the new academic session, he said.
"The aim of this programme is to prepare children for new classes in the beginning of the new session by way of interesting and activity-oriented informal learning," he said.
He said the Catchup Programme would be undertaken in the first two months of the session.
This would help develop learning abilities and skills the students could not obtain in their classes due to some reasons.

Skill Passbook would be filled up by the class teacher for each student, he said.

Their learning abilities in Hindi, English and Mathematics would be mentioned in the passbook drawing on the lessons in the textbook, he said.
Detailing the activities to be undertaken in the first seven weeks of the new academic session, Sharma said in the first week, the teachers would mention the learning abilities of students in the Skill Passbook, and, in the second week, identification of students and group building would be done.
Similarly, activity-based learning in groups would be carried out in the third to sixth week, and, in the seventh week, the teachers would test the acquired learning abilities of the students, he said.

Sharma said that after a student is promoted first of all, the new class teacher would access the learning abilities mentioned in the Skill Passbook throughout the year.
After getting promoted, the student would hand over this passbook to the new class teacher who would recheck the learning abilities and skills mentioned in the passbook, he added.