Students in Classes I to X to get monthly assignments: Tamil Nadu govt

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu school education department will give month-wise assignments to students studying from Class I to X to fill the gap in teaching learning process and to achieve uniformity in learning outcomes. The assignments will vary from preparing greeting cards to simple experiments to book reviews.
The department also directed the headmasters to maintain the number of assignments submitted by students unit wise.
"For primary level (Class I to V), the assignments will be based on creativity. They can be given projects which relate to the day to day life activities like preparing greeting cards, creating artworks and writing new words on their own and so on. They will be given a minimum two projects per subject for a month which will kindle the interest of the students to perform the assignment and if required, they can get the assistance from their subject teachers," a circular from school education commissioner K Nanthakumar said.
"For upper primary classes (VI to VIII), the project will be testing comprehensive skills like simple experimentation, composition writing, creating portfolios and sharing their experiences on some trips and letter writing. For secondary students (Classes IX and X), writing assignments on given topics, book review, doing simple experiments with available low cost materials," the circular added.