The Changlang District Administration, in collaboration with the India Foundation for Education Transformation (IFET), today officially launched a School Transformation and Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) Programme at Diyun, with the goal of addressing grassroots foundational educational deficiencies of primary and upper primary government school children in Changlang district.
This initiative is part of the Ministry of Education’s larger mission to address schoolchildren’s foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) deficiencies across the country.
This year, the said programme will be implemented in 30 government primary schools in the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh. The programme will then be implemented in all of the district’s government primary and upper primary schools in the coming years.
Dr. Devansh Yadav, Changlang’s District Commissioner, held an orientation and training programme for government primary and middle school administrators, teachers, and SMCs on how to deliver FLN.
The DC identified several areas that need to be improved in order to achieve FLN objectives.
“There is a need to be flexible and be ready to collaborate in imparting education, adopt best practices, ways and means of imparting foundational education so that learning takes place in children in the age group 3-9 years,” he said.
Addressing the various FLN education stakeholders on the importance of the Foundational Learning and Numeracy Programme, Mr. Prahlad C, CEO of IFET said, “Foundational learning has been a perennial drawback in government schools in the district and the annual ASER report by education non-profit Pratham has showed for successive years how a large chunk of government school students at the elementary level cannot even read, understand and do basic arithmetic in Changlang district. According to ASER 2018, in Changlang District, 72.3% of students in class III-V cannot read level 2 text, while 51.3% of students cannot do simple subtraction.”
He also emphasised the importance of school transformation in achieving the FLN program’s goals, mission, and vision, as well as their collaboration with other partner NGOs to provide teaching-learning materials (TLMs) to schools, as well as their pertinent initiatives and training programmes that they plan to launch in collaboration with the District Administration to effectively address FLN deficiencies among the district’s children.
The importance of FLN education in ensuring a secure future for the district’s children has been emphasised. GBs, SMCs, community leaders, and NGOs were among the grassroots FLN education stakeholders in attendance.
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