Thiruvananthapuram: The state government has approved ‘Sahitham’, the mentoring programme to help students harmonise their social and emotional skills along with academic competencies.
The programme has been devised as directed by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan during the public education rejuvenation mission’s review meeting. “With the state schools becoming hi-tech, the objective of a school-level master plan is further enhanced to a more academic student-centric individual master plan, which has been realised through ‘Sahitham’,” said general education minister C Raveendranath.
As part of Sahitham programme, the mentor teacher gets to closely observe, study and record online the academic improvement of each student along with their socio-linguistic skills, social awareness, scientific aptitude, etc. In addition, the teacher would be able to plan necessary corrective learning activities by understanding the learning difficulties of students by observing their social background. Teachers would be provided with even psychological types of training as part of this programme.
The Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) has developed and manages the Sahitham portal with academic support of SCERT. “Sahitham will act as the backbone for the programme and will have facilities for online guidance to even the parents regarding their children’s capabilities, strongholds and areas where further interventions are required by effectively utilizing the scope of artificial intelligence, data analytics, etc.,” said K Anvar Sadath, chief executive officer, KITE.
The basic details of students captured in the Sampoorna school management portal would be made available to the mentor teachers in Sahitham portal. The mentors need to undertake activities to know the background details of individual students through informal talks, house visits, close observation, etc. Arrangements have to be made by director of general education to implement the pilot run of the programme in Class I to VII of selected schools this year and to extend the programme to all schools from next academic year onwards.
The programme has been devised as directed by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan during the public education rejuvenation mission’s review meeting. “With the state schools becoming hi-tech, the objective of a school-level master plan is further enhanced to a more academic student-centric individual master plan, which has been realised through ‘Sahitham’,” said general education minister C Raveendranath.
As part of Sahitham programme, the mentor teacher gets to closely observe, study and record online the academic improvement of each student along with their socio-linguistic skills, social awareness, scientific aptitude, etc. In addition, the teacher would be able to plan necessary corrective learning activities by understanding the learning difficulties of students by observing their social background. Teachers would be provided with even psychological types of training as part of this programme.
The Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) has developed and manages the Sahitham portal with academic support of SCERT. “Sahitham will act as the backbone for the programme and will have facilities for online guidance to even the parents regarding their children’s capabilities, strongholds and areas where further interventions are required by effectively utilizing the scope of artificial intelligence, data analytics, etc.,” said K Anvar Sadath, chief executive officer, KITE.
The basic details of students captured in the Sampoorna school management portal would be made available to the mentor teachers in Sahitham portal. The mentors need to undertake activities to know the background details of individual students through informal talks, house visits, close observation, etc. Arrangements have to be made by director of general education to implement the pilot run of the programme in Class I to VII of selected schools this year and to extend the programme to all schools from next academic year onwards.
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