©️ Sir, when will school start?
After the government order to give leave to the students, the
children stopped coming to the school. A few days later, the teachers also
received orders from ‘Work from Home’. I had just come to the village. But time
was not running out at home. Experiencing the effects of an invisible virus for
the first time.The growing impact of the corona virus has spread around the
world. Thousands of lives are lost. Recognizing social distance, all companies,
offices and traffic in Maharashtra were shut down and the fight against corona
started. Along with the administration, doctors, nurses, police, officers,
teachers, Anganwadi Tai, Gram Panchayat and Zilla Parishad are all day and
night to fight this virus.
Seeing all the temples of knowledge closed in Maharashtra, many
questions arose in my mind. Are the children locked in the study? Will the
children forget school? Will you forget the knowledge you have acquired? Are
you scared to leave the house? Will the children come to school after school
starts? One or more such questions have arisen. Everyone should keep in mind
that this holiday is not given by the government but for their own benefit, the
government has ordered them to stay safe at home to face the Corona crisis.
Ten or twelve days must have passed. How can schools that are
passionate about school and determined to learn stay calm? The children's
phones rang. Sir, when will school start? I'm tired of sitting at home. When
will you teach us computer information? When will Lezim teach us? How do we
study? When will our exams take place? I was amazed at their innocent
questions. Because Corona had no idea when this terrible crisis would end and
when school would begin.
But the idea came to mind that if
these children are given regular study, their boredom will go away. They will
also study. A useful project called 'Study from Home' was suggested in the
lockdown. The nature of this action was to create a WhatsApp group or broadcast
group for the parents of the students and send it to each class every morning
through the study class or by sending a personal message. It was not possible
for us to perform tests for all classes. But all my technology savvy teachers
in Maharashtra solved this problem.
The Government of Maharashtra's
Diksha app is being used in all schools in Maharashtra. Elements of all classes
are available in video format. The content in this app is created by the teachers
and all the educational materials have been made available to all the schools,
teachers, parents, students. SCERT has started the initiative 'School is
closed..but there is education'. The Department of Primary Education, Zilla
Parishad Sangli is also implementing an innovative experiment called 'Online
Self-Assessment Test' for students. Also thousands of teachers themselves are
creating educational videos on each component, creating tutorials and
competitive online tests, creating PDFs, developing many educational apps. If
all this academic knowledge is always imparted to the students, the learning
process will continue even in lockdown.
According to the plan, students started sending studies every
morning. Asked to practice according to their schedule without being forced. We
both (Pravin Dakare and brother Jaydeep Dakare) decided to do ten to fifteen
regular online tests for class I to V. In line with that we started posting
regular updates on our website www.gurumauli.in. We continued to share tests
created by various WhatsApp groups. Our students as well as students from other
schools in Maharashtra started using them. The blog received four lakh visits
in a month. Because every day thousands of students were solving online tests
on the blog. The 'Study from Home' initiative was a real success. This is
because the responses of students who have passed the test are being reported
to us using Google Forms. Sadly, parents of students who do not have a
smartphone have to stay away from this activity. But such students were called
to a nearby house to study and they too joined the process.
The lockdown makes it difficult to identify what the
current mindset of students will be. Because the school is still not open and I
have no idea when it will start. The real test for kids right now is to fight
against the corona. The endeavor is that the process of education should
continue uninterrupted. For this, our government, our Zilla Parishad is making
efforts at all levels through 'Learning from Home'.
©️ Articles -
Pravin Dattatray Dakare
Primary teacher
Z.P. School Kundalwadi
Tal. Walwa, Dist. Sangli
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