Telangana schools plan live & video lessons for new academic year
Representational Image. (Getty Images) HYDERABAD: With no clarity on whether schools in Telangana will be allowed to start the new academic year (2020-21) in June, many educational institutions have started preparations to replicate classroom teaching through live classes and video lessons. A majority of them said they would start the academic year in June virtually and would wait for the government’s guidelines before taking a call on physical classes.
“We have procured required hardware and trained our teachers. We are geared up to start online classes for pre-school to class 12 students from June 1,” said Delhi Public School, Nacharam, principal Sunitha Rao. She said the school has already conducted an orientation programme for students and their parents and was in the final stage of zeroing on an app to conduct online classes.
The DPS head said the school is not currently investing in procuring more buses or re-designing classrooms to meet social distancing norms owing to uncertainty on when the academic year might begin. The school, however, has decided to go ahead and install disinfection tunnels at the entry/exit points, she added.
Anticipating that schools would have to follow staggered timings, schools were contemplating explaining lessons through videos at home and clear doubts or make students do exercise/activities in person.
“We felt that video lessons will be way better than online classes. Video recording of all subjects for all classes has already begun. These lessons will be shared via WhatsApp and can be podcast on to a large screen,” Slate-The School director Amarnath Vasireddy. He said each lesson would be 30 minutes long and will have clear instructions to students.
Amarnath said that right now they were preparing to accommodate 50% students every day, but added that they would change their plan as and when the government issues guidelines. “Based on our plan, a student needs to attend school every alternate day,” he added.
Schools made it clear that they were not in a hurry to call students to physically attend classes, but also want to ensure that students do not miss out on anything. “Along with the subject, extracurricular activities—music, dance, craft are also being conducted virtually. In fact, we continued these activities even during the summer so that students will be kept occupied,” said B Usha Sree, principal, Johnson Grammar School, said.
“We have procured required hardware and trained our teachers. We are geared up to start online classes for pre-school to class 12 students from June 1,” said Delhi Public School, Nacharam, principal Sunitha Rao. She said the school has already conducted an orientation programme for students and their parents and was in the final stage of zeroing on an app to conduct online classes.
The DPS head said the school is not currently investing in procuring more buses or re-designing classrooms to meet social distancing norms owing to uncertainty on when the academic year might begin. The school, however, has decided to go ahead and install disinfection tunnels at the entry/exit points, she added.
Anticipating that schools would have to follow staggered timings, schools were contemplating explaining lessons through videos at home and clear doubts or make students do exercise/activities in person.
“We felt that video lessons will be way better than online classes. Video recording of all subjects for all classes has already begun. These lessons will be shared via WhatsApp and can be podcast on to a large screen,” Slate-The School director Amarnath Vasireddy. He said each lesson would be 30 minutes long and will have clear instructions to students.
Amarnath said that right now they were preparing to accommodate 50% students every day, but added that they would change their plan as and when the government issues guidelines. “Based on our plan, a student needs to attend school every alternate day,” he added.
Schools made it clear that they were not in a hurry to call students to physically attend classes, but also want to ensure that students do not miss out on anything. “Along with the subject, extracurricular activities—music, dance, craft are also being conducted virtually. In fact, we continued these activities even during the summer so that students will be kept occupied,” said B Usha Sree, principal, Johnson Grammar School, said.
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