– Ram Chandra Rupakheti
Education is a fundamental base for economic development, prosperity, and scientific innovation. Poverty reduction depends upon the knowledge and skills that people acquire from the education system in the nation. The academic, cultural, social, norms and values may get changed due to widespread pandemic disease COVID-19.
Today, many schools are formulation strategies to achieve their survival goal during-COVID-19. One of them is building infrastructure for online education in school level whether all or partially courses. Online education is a form of education by use of a computer, or employing any technologies by which education is delivered and administered using the internet. Government of Nepal emphasizes on online education during COVID-19. Every school need to use new strategies by preparing essential infrastructures. For the sustainability of education post corona virus, every school must take initiation for online teaching method. Effective hardware and software must be installed for online education. Another most common strategy is an online library that a school should install online portal to retrieve extensive archives.
Government is trying to avoid the oldest and conventional type of teaching methodology. This is an appropriate time to replace the existing system. Commonly used teaching methods may include class participation, demonstration, recitation, memorization, or combinations of these. Some strategies for quality education can be used in the primary education system as follows:
A. The oldest and outdated teaching methods in primary school should be avoided.
The students should get rid of rote learning of books which is used only for memorization based on repetition because such type of learning does not motivate creativity. Therefore, advance countries do not use textbooks in primary education.
B. Extensive online reading lessons in place of textbooks.
The pedagogic innovation should be increased to the use of computers as primary resources from grade one for reading instructions. Only teachers should use textbooks extensible. There should be central server controllable by the government or an umbrella organization where any information can be retrieved from the computer. This facility can be provided to student from an offline server from their school or by authorized database too. The database should be managed properly by every primary school.
C. More use of explanation in primary science lessons and facility of their practical work in school or home.
Thesaurus, Wikipedia, dictionary should be freely available to each and every student from online. The practical exercise and experimental videos should be available to make easy them in their project works.
D. Free Internet availability in primary classrooms with computers.
The students should get any information from the internet. They may enjoy full of knowledge from Wikipedia, dictionary, thesaurus, newspapers, online test book, online stories, fictions etc. Unnecessary sites should be restricted to both teachers and students. The students can explore any information whether they can be mathematical formulae, concept, problems and solution. It leads to them for innovation.
E. Presentation skills development from primary level.
Strategies during corona virus spread for development of effective education are reading skills, writings skills, speaking skills, listening skills. Writings skills include effective writing styles, cursive handwriting and efficient writings etc.
F. Change in teaching methodology or curriculum.
Finally, the curriculum should be changed following modern societies. Technology call feasible curriculum should be developed. This is the great opportunities to rethink about the curriculum for technological education to remove outdated conventional type of education system. The curriculum experts are advised to concentrate on remote education, technology and new education system. There are many examples of way of students learning. Students may learn how to prepare nutritious food items, to use a variety of cooking equipment such as scales, knives, utensils, grinder machine etc. They may prepare meals plans from shopping plans, selection of hygiene food materials and cleanings process.
The curriculum may include farming, agriculture and their equipment, agriculture technology, learning about growing and harvesting fruit and vegetables. The project work related to such practical education should be included in primary level. A school must open a laboratory before practical in the real field. There should open online archives and library to related topics. The students may search for online information. The book related to a kids’ cookbook full of appealing should be kept in an online library for food students. There are other interesting subjects’ children love most such as new apps and games. There should be given basic course of preparing apps and games in school.
The curriculum should be concentrated on developing the program. kids can learn how to create an app or online game. Students will learn lessons about science, social studies, math, and economics through planting their organic farm. Other interested students can learn in the groups and each group work on generating a message like positive vs. negative from the daily magazine, articles and reading materials. They can present from online class from home. Students who are interested in engineering, they can begin by studying the engineering of bridge-building constructions in small samples comparing the construction of famous bridges such as the Karnali bridge or Koshi Barrage, Tunnel, ropeway and famous architecture.
Then they work in teams to construct bridges out of common sticks. These are the opportunities created by COVID-19 which may make the students skilled and technically fit for the industries. This will help the society to change the conventional education system.
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