The Hindu 09.07.2013
AIF to assist Corpn. schools to improve performance in examinations
As many as 300 students in Class X to be covered in the pilot project
The American Indian Foundation (AIF), a non-profit
organisation that is implementing a ‘Digital Equaliser’ (DE) Programme
in Coimbatore Corporation Schools, has been roped in to help the
Corporation school students improve their performance in Class X board
examinations.
Addressing a meeting of Corporation
school headmasters here on Monday, Corporation Commissioner G. Latha
said that the foundation could help the schools and provide training to
Class X students who secure last five ranks. This training would cover a
total of 300 students.
The objective should be to
increase the pass percentage in Class X board examinations from 90 per
cent last time to cent per cent. Such initiatives cannot succeed without
the cooperation of the school teachers, she added.
V.
Alexander, zonal coordinator (DE programme) of foundation, said that
these students would be covered under a pilot project, ‘Bright Brain
Classroom.’
Under this, he said that students would
be trained in developing concentration and mind power. It would teach
them an easy way of understanding academic concepts and help create
interest in the subjects. The training would also focus on increasing
these students’ intelligence quotient and help them overcome
distraction, he added.
Speaking later, Mayor S.M.
Velusamy said that the initiative’s objective was to bring the quality
of Corporation schools on a par or even better than private schools.
Digital story telling
Earlier,
Corporation school students who had undergone summer training in
digital story telling gave a presentation on their projects.
While
two Class X students from the Corporation Girls Higher Secondary
School, Ranganathapuram – M.Vidya Priya and B. Deepashree – gave a
presentation on unhygienic conditions of food preparation in roadside
shops, another two Class X students from the Corporation Higher
Secondary School, Peelamedu – S. Logesh and A. Durga Prasanth – gave a
video presentation on water conservation and how to prevent the spread
of water-borne diseases. The best projects were given awards during the
meeting.
Cash award
a team
from the Corporation Higher Secondary School, North Coimbatore, has won a
cash award of RS. 20,000 in the fifth edition of the annual student DE
content, which is conducted at the national level by the AIF.
The
team, comprising eight students from classes VI to IX, had prepared an
herbal garden project and researched on areas such as the quantity of
red soil, fertilisers, herbal seeds and irrigation system required for
the garden.
The Coimbatore students’ projects were
evaluated by the teachers of the Chennai Corporation School. It had
shared the first place with another school from Chennai. A total of 46
Corporation schools in Tamil Nadu had taken part. Around 1,500
Corporation/Government schools had taken part in the event nationally.