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SAP formula for schools ready

Staff Reporter

It will focus on strengths and weaknesses
of each student
SDMCs to be closely involved in implementing
the remedies

Bangalore: In a bid to raise the quality of education, the Department of Public Instruction, along with the Directorate of State Education Research and Training (DSERT), has come up with a uniform School Academic Plan (SAP) framework.

Kumar G. Naik, Commissioner, Department of Public Instruction, told presspersons here on Thursday that these were just guidelines to show how schools should be run. “Teachers will have a clear view of the strengths and weaknesses of each student, which will help us drive towards quality,” he said.

The DSERT and the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) were now working closely with the Block Resource Centres and Cluster Resource Centres. “School administration is decentralised. We want increased participation from the School Development Monitoring Committees. Quality is a public issue. We want more participation from society,” he said. The SAP framework had the remedies for the problems highlighted by the Karnataka School Quality Assessment Organisation. “We are telling the stakeholders how to apply these remedies at the grass-roots level. The schools will have to share their SAPs with the SDMCs by July 21.” The SDMCs will then “embark on the journey to improve quality in schools.”

Mr. Naik said that quality need not wait for infrastructure development. “We have to move forward from linking infrastructure and quality education. The SAP framework is relatable and makes full use of the teachers’ inherent knowledge of his/her classroom,” he said. Even extracurricular activities could be included in the SAP.

The DSERT, which framed the SAP guidelines, had clubbed the competencies. This will make the teachers’ job of making a SAP easy.

On Thursday, over 350 cluster resource persons, block resource persons, Block Education Officers, Joint Directors of Public Instruction, Deputy Directors of Public Instruction and DIET faculty from Bangalore Rural and Ramanagara districts participated in a workshop on implementation of SAP.

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