More than 2,700 students of six Coimbatore Corporation schools and a government school will get to experience smart classrooms from the 2019-20 academic year. Providing the facility is Aram Foundation with support from HCL Foundation under its UDAY programme.
The Foundation’s managing trustee Latha Sundaram said that with financial support from the HCL Foundation, Aram would establish model classrooms in Corporation higher secondary schools in Ranganathapuram and Peelamedu and elementary schools in Ganesapuram, Kovilmedu, Ganapathy and Selvapuram North and the government school in Annur.
It would install a computer, smart board with projector and provide a smart learning software in addition to posting part-time teachers.
The first objective of the teachers would be to help slow learners learn the basics, so that the students reached the learning levels of their classmates.
Thereafter, they would guide the students into smart learning by throwing open the software for students.
The part-time teachers would also train the Corporation and government teachers to effectively use the software to help the students learn more than their curriculum.
In the higher secondary schools, in addition to helping the students easily understand mathematics and science, Aram would also look at training the students to easily take exams, overcome parental and teenage issues and grooming them for higher education.
It would run the programme for a year and would renew the project if the HCL Foundation was satisfied with the impact the project had had on the students.
The Corporation launched the project on Tuesday. Corporation Commissioner Sravan Kumar Jatavath, HCL's Deputy General Manager and Centre Head State Street P.S. Ramachandran and others were present.