A two-day roundtable on orientation to teachers on classroom process in multi-lingual education of Adivasi Odiya, Kui and Kondadora tribal dialects in Andhra Pradesh-Odisha border villages has called for enhanced inputs on designing primers for pre-schools, classes one, two and three in government schools and emphasised the importance of mother tongue-based education.
The roundtable, organised under the aegis of Nature, New Education Group (NEG)-Foundation for Innovation, Research and Education (FIRE), on multilingual education on Wednesday reiterated the importance of revisiting the existing primers in mother tongue and the crucial issues faced in this process.
The meeting identified the issues like language development and discussed ways and means to enhance minimum-level teaching learning method (TLM) adoption practices.
It suggested initiating the process for primers designing through wider consultative process, identification of dialect-wise key resource persons, cluster-level resource persons and training them.
Nearly 160 schools in Dumbriguda mandal and 100 schools in Hukumpeta have been identified as the target area for intervention under this NEG-FIRE in collaboration with Nature, an NGO working for tribal welfare in North Andhra.