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`Adopt new teaching methods'

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Horatti inaugurates screening of Discovery School Series of documentary films

BREAKING THE MONOTONY: Primary and Secondary Education Minister Basavaraj Horatti inaugurating a programme of screening Discovery Channel School Series of documentary films in government schools, in Dharwad on Tuesday.

DHARWAD: Primary and Secondary Education Minister Basavaraj Horatti has called upon teachers to reduce pressure on students by adopting innovative methods of teaching.

The Minister was inaugurating a programme of screening Discovery Channel School Series documentary films at government primary and high schools in the State. It was conducted by Vidyarthi Shiksha Abhiyana here on Tuesday. Mr. Horatti said the students were under pressure and dull and dogmatic teaching would make it worse. He referred to some of the century-old teaching methods being followed by teachers and compared them with the teaching methods being followed in other countries.

He said efforts should be made to make students learn through playing instead of just cramming them with information. He said the department was chalking out programmes in this regard. The Minister viewed one of the documentaries of the Discovery Channel Schools Series on the occasion. He appealed to private schools and educational institutions to encourage the new initiative.

K.R. Aithal, Acting Vice-Chancellor of Karnatak University and Kader, Senior Manager of National Dairy Development Board, spoke.

Giving details about the objectives of the programme, Rajesh Karandikar, Director of Vidyarthi Shiksha Abhiyana, said the documentary films, which would cover a part of the curriculum, would help students. The abhiyana had bought the rights from the Discovery Channel for the series. It had plans to extend the programme to all government and private schools in the State.

State coordinators of Abhiyana Sameer Jilani, Aftab Sayyed, Praveen Badagi and Vijaya Sonwalkar were present.

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