Development
of textbooks
The primary and upper primary level curriculum has been thoroughly reviewed and has been formally adopted by the U.P. Basic Parishad in the year 2000. Based on this updated curriculum, new textbooks have been developed for primary and upper primary classes. There are two textbooks for Class II i.e., Language and Mathematics. For Class III, there are five textbooks i.e., Hindi, Mathematics, Social studies, English and Sanskrit. There are six textbooks for Class IV and V i.e., Hindi, Mathematics, Social studies, English, Sanskrit and Science. For the upper primary Classes 21 textbooks (Hindi, Mathematics, Science, Social science and Sanskrit) were developed through the series of workshops.
The primary and upper primary level curriculum has been thoroughly reviewed and has been formally adopted by the U.P. Basic Parishad in the year 2000. Based on this updated curriculum, new textbooks have been developed for primary and upper primary classes. There are two textbooks for Class II i.e., Language and Mathematics. For Class III, there are five textbooks i.e., Hindi, Mathematics, Social studies, English and Sanskrit. There are six textbooks for Class IV and V i.e., Hindi, Mathematics, Social studies, English, Sanskrit and Science. For the upper primary Classes 21 textbooks (Hindi, Mathematics, Science, Social science and Sanskrit) were developed through the series of workshops.
| The exercise undertaken at the SCERT level encompassed inter alia a broad orientation of the writing team on various issues pertaining to pedagogy, children’s interest and their learning pattern, appropriate class room practices and role of continuous and comprehensive evaluation. The team of authors consisted of serving elementary school teachers, DIET lecturers, BRC coordinators, specialists from universities, NCERT and SCERT department e.g., SIE, IASE (CPI), SISE and Rajya Hindi Sansthan, representatives of NGOs, gender and quality coordinators and a group of selected illustrators. State Institute of Allahabad has developed books on Environmental studies for class VI-VIII which has been introduced in the schools. the books on ‘Grih Shilp’ for the same classes has been developed by SIE Allahabad which has been introduced from the academic session 2006. A book on ‘Agricultural Sciences for classes VI-VIII has been revised by SISE, Allahabad in the year 2005. Development of Teacher Editions The new textbooks launched recently are purposely designed at enabling the teachers to acquire and widen their perception to effectively transact the curriculum in child friendly interactive sessions. There is evident paradigm shift from teacher centered to student centered teaching reflected through the format and design of these books. Therefore, in order to properly induct and orient the teachers into the new methodology and specific content areas, teacher editions of these textbooks are being developed for primary and upper primary level. These teacher editions focus on the substantive content structures as integrated for classes I to VIII in all subjects. In structural terms in these teacher editions in the first part, specifications of objectives for the content area, teaching techniques methodology are provided; in the second part some lesson plans and explanation on some hard spots are indicated while in the third part the format for some interesting activity based sessions related to content are suggested. These teacher editions also provide some hints to minimize the gap between the textual orientations and the intentions of curriculum. They also hint at important points to be highlighted in the lessons along with the approximate time duration required and evaluation procedure to be followed. These teacher handbooks have been provided to every teacher of the State at primary and upper primary level. Teachers Manual had been translated into Urdu language by the units of SCERT. |
