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Corporation school teachers are doing a remarkable job, says Mayor

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Orientation programme for higher secondary postgraduate teachers inaugurated

— Photo: S.S.KUMAR

Back to class: A section of the teachers of Corporation schools at the programme in Chennai on Friday.

CHENNAI: Five students who passed out of Corporation schools gained admission to Anna University this year through counselling and “this is a very significant achievement in the history of Corporation schools,” Mayor M. Subramanian said here on Friday.

He was speaking at the inauguration of a three-day orientation programme organised by the College of Engineering, exclusively for higher secondary postgraduate teachers of Corporation schools. Mathematics, physics, chemistry and computer science teachers handling classes XI and XII will be trained by resource persons from the College of Engineering, Anna University, as part of the programme.

Mr. Subramanian said that while the teachers of Corporation schools were doing a remarkable job, this was a good opportunity for them to enhance their teaching methodology. They would be interacting with professors, who were teaching the top 3,000 engineering students of over one lakh candidates who apply to Anna University every year. The programme would enable teachers to bring about a significant increase in pass percentage of students, ensure that more students make it to Anna University next year.

Inaugurating the programme, Vice-Chancellor of Anna University P. Mannar Jawahar said the education of a student could be divided into three major phases – up to class X, classes XI and XII, and collegiate education. “In these three phases, what is taught to a student in Plus-Two is very important for higher education. Moreover, those students are in a transitional stage. The teacher should be friendly and guide them well.”

Corporation Commissioner Rajesh Lakhoni said that children of the present day had many questions due to the increasing exposure. “Science teachers have the challenge of answering all of them convincingly, and also making scientific concepts relevant to everyday life.”

Deputy Commissioner (Education) M. Balaji said that every student passing out of school was not only required to be strong in fundamentals, but also possess good reasoning, analytical and problem-solving skills, and reasonable presentation skills.

A. Vijayakumar, chairman, Faculty of Science & Humanities, Anna University, said that professors often found deficiencies in students’ knowledge of basic concepts in mathematics and sciences. He attributed this to the trend of schools rushing through the class XI syllabus to begin the class XII syllabus well in advance. M. Sekar, Dean, College of Engineering Campus, Anna University, spoke.

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