Mr. Shehzad Roy, the well known singer ( whose Zindagi Trust transformed a Govt. Girls College into a Quality institution in Karachi) and his team visited today (17th Sept. 2010) Reform Support Unit (RSU), Education Department, NJV (School) Building, MA Jinnah Road, Karachi, to share the work on text book development for Class -I Maths. They offered their work to Education Department Govt. of Sindh, for adoption for Govt. Schools without any charge. They also shared their insights as to what were the issues in the current govt. text book for maths for Class -I. For example the following issues they identified :
- Current text book on Class-I Maths lacks creativity for teaching Maths;
- Each page of the Book has too much learning material cramped together which overburdens a child's capacity for absorption/learning and retaining:
- Illustrations are not many and may not appropriately serve child's need at this age for learning;
- Exercises are too few hence a child cannot retain what he/she learnt;
- Paper and color combination can be improved.
- Home grown ideas need to be integrated with research findings for text book development.
The Ed Department appreciated the work of Zindagi Trust, and expressed willingness to adopt the work shared. Mr. Alamuddin Bullo, the Secretary Education, expressed his full commitment on the issue of innovation of book development with the help of all partners including Zindagi Trust. Secretary was of the view all such efforts need to be synergised for improving the quality of education in Sindh. The Secretary directed Bureau of Curriculum to work with Zindagi trust towards making a proposal to this effect for implementation in future.
The meeting was also attended by the Chief Program Manager, and Deputy Program Managers (RSU), Director Bureau of Curriculum and some additional secretaries including Zindagi Trust Team.
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