New Curriculum of Class 11 will be Implemented from this Academic Session:
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Although the government has decided to implement a new curriculum for class 11 students from the academic session of 2077 BS, the issue of teacher preparation has not been given priority. According to the new curriculum, even though compulsory subjects have been added in class 11, thousands of manpower required for its teaching have yet to be prepared.
The school needs a postgraduate teacher to teach the new curriculum. Currently, the graduate-level manpower is teaching up to class 10. This issue should be taken seriously as it requires manpower with higher educational qualifications to teach in the upper classes. Baburam Thapa, president of the Nepal Federation of Teachers, said that no effort has been made in this regard even though a report was submitted to the government on the need for 53,000 teachers at the school level.
He said that teaching would not be effective without additional teachers and necessary preparation for teaching. He emphasized that the government should make the necessary preparations for this. Nepali and English as well as social subjects have been made compulsory in class 11 from this time. It has been stated that the social issues have been made very burdensome and the provision of teaching in Nepali may complicate its implementation. Madhu Prasad Timilsina, principal of Tejabinayak Secondary School in Gothatar of the capital, said that the school and teachers were completely unaware of the implementation of the new curriculum.
He said that it is not possible to teach in class 11 only from the teachers working in class 10 and quality cannot be maintained from it. He says that the shortage of teachers in the case of adding compulsory subjects and increasing the curriculum will only lead to teaching. Govinda Bhandari, a social studies teacher, said that a teacher teaching in class 10 should not be allowed to teach at a higher level by force, adding that it would weaken the learning achievement of the students. His analysis is that allowing teachers who do not have the required educational qualifications and have not been oriented to teach in the upper class will bring long-term problems in the education sector of Nepal. He said that immediate efforts should be made to bring qualified teachers in class 11 as only people from very weak backgrounds have not stopped coming to teachers and young people have not been attracted to the teaching profession.
Chairman of the National Private and Residential School Organization Nepal (N-PABSON) Rituraj Sapkota says that even private educational institutions have not been able to make necessary preparations and think about this issue. He says that some preparation is needed for this as it has to be taught by a post-graduate level teacher in class 11. He suggested that in this case, the government should reduce the cost of the curriculum.
Gehnath Gautam, director of the Education and Human Resource Development Center, said that the teachers who are qualified to teach in class 9 and 10 should be given classes at the upper level. He said that the shortage of teachers could be met immediately as the government would provide assistance in the form of teacher grants to the schools operating classes 11 and 12. Director Gautam informed that there is a plan to add new posts in case of need of more teachers after the matching of posts at the school level is completed.
Sources: Gorkhapatra Daily
