Teaching-Learning & Examinations

Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes & Values

K. Sarveswaran

Northern (Province) Education consultation workshop 23-24 April, 2014

Teaching and Learning is the core activity…

Teacher education Teaching and

Learning

Teacher education

System

Education Ministry Officers…

Training

Administration

Scope of this presentation

O/L Statistics - 2011

Source: Research and Development Branch, Department of Education. 2012.

A/L Merit students

Source: Roshan Ragel and Arunan Sivanathan, The State of Higher Education in the North of Sri Lanka.

Percentage of Merit students entered from the Jaffna district

Secondary Tertiary

Source: World Development Indicators: Participation in Education, World Bank.

Secondary Tertiary

CONCERNS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC

Classroom environment – Lacks • Student centered teaching

• Too many events during school time and only a group of students are permitted

• Competent teachers in subjects like English, Tamil.

• Time for extra-curricular activities.

• Laboratory facilities, Instruments, Text books

• E-Learning facility

• Syllabus and content in text books, including Tamil and history subjects

• Not enough if importance to Value, Emotional and Moral education

• Focus on grade 6 to 8

Teaching and Teacher - Lacks

• Learning not practiced • Practical skills of teachers • Interests in school education • Rewarding committed teachers • Too many training and training during the school

hours • Utilization of resources in schools and Teacher

Resource Centers – During after school and on holidays

• Support of ISAs

Examinations and Assessments

• National examinations tests only the writing and memorizing skills

• Unnecessary importance to Grade 5 examination

• Students skills are not assessed and recorded

• Provincial exam papers are not set in a consistent standard

• Teachers are not assessed by students

Teachers-Students-Parents

• Teacher-Student relationship

• Teacher-Parent relationship

• Lack of understanding about the importance of education among parents

New venues for learning

RECOMMENDATIONS

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”

- Plato (428-348 BC)

உரை :

ஆசிரியன் கற்பித்தனவற்ரைத்

தன்னறிவின்கண் அரையக்

கற்ைானாயினும், புலரைத் திைத்திற்

காற்கூைல்லது பற்ைான். தன்பபாலியபைாடு

பயிலும் வரகயாற் காற்கூறும்,

அக்கல்விரயத் தன்ைாணாக்கர்க்கும்

அரவக்களத்பதார்க்கும் உணை

விரித்துரைத்தலான் அரைக்கூறுைாகக்,

குற்ைைற்ை புலரை நிைம்பும்.

- உரைவிளக்கம் (நன்னூல் விருத்தியுரை)

-Tholkappiyar (unknown)

Students cannot gain more than 25% from a

lecture

Students can gain 25% through discussion

Students get rest 50% by teaching to others

Education for ALL to maximize their potential.

By Howard Gardner

Recommendations

• Student centered learning

• Utilize resources at school after school hours for skill education

• Involve parents in class room activities in rotational manner

• Strengthen Primary education and Secondary education to prepare students to face the future. – Need a thorough study on required skills for

employment and survival in provincial and Sri Lankan context.

Recommendations

• Teacher assessments, Monitoring and Rewarding for teachers

• On demand Short training

• Compulsory long training on teaching methodologies to new teachers after every 3 years of service

• Strengthen the role of ISA

• Involve parents in class room activities in rotational manner

Recommendations

• Personalized e-Learning environment

• Regularize tutorial centers

Examinations

• Strengthen year 9 provincial level examination: Test various skills of students, (not only the writing skill).

• Year 5 scholarship examination should be conducted for the exact purpose.

• Establishing an examination unit under the provincial education

Pictures are from:

• http://www.educationandtransition.org

• http://www.projects-abroad.org

• www.worldbank.org

• http://sitemaker.umich.edu/356.martin/home

• http://stephenslighthouse.com

The team: • Mrs. A. Vedanayagam

• Mr. A.H.Gnanarajan

• Mr. Lenin Arivalakan

• Mrs. A. Manoharan

• Mr. K. Sarveswaran (Co-ordinator)

• Mrs. T. Sivabalasundram

• Dr. R. Surenthirakumaran

• Prof. S. Srisatkunarajah

• Mr. I. Thayananthanrajah

• Miss. Uthaya Sivagnanam