This is standard rubric for Sharma who has taught in government schools for 10 years. While Harish’s father is a daily-wage worker, Siddharth’s family is supported by his mother’s anganwadi job, and Keerti’s father is a fruit vendor.Įach of them brings to the classroom a unique set of challenges which Sharma has to grapple with using a range of tools: from innovative worksheets and quizzes to detailed sessions with parents, all the while playing teacher, counsellor and, often, even their friend.įraming her challenge is the CBSE Class 5 curriculum that prescribes word problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division angles and degrees perimeter and area fractions factors and multiples with LCM and HCF measuring volume of cuboids expressing tenths and hundredths in decimal points. Maths was chosen since it is a subject that has traditionally challenged both students and educators alike and these challenges, experts said, were exacerbated during the lockdown.Įspecially for children from economically weaker sections and working-class families, the demographic that constitutes much of Class 5A, who did not have ready access to screen devices or the Internet. Class 5 A, Veer Savarkar Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya: Report card on day zeroīeing their final year of primary school, Class 5 marks a crucial milestone, just one year away from middle school, the bridge to secondary. To investigate this, The Indian Express sat in for five weeks tracking the 38 children of Class 5A right from their first day of school through each of their 26 math classes and key parent-teacher meetings. So, how will Sharma meet this unprecedented challenge: bringing her class up to speed for Class 5? Given that the students have different competencies and levels of learning, how does she calibrate her teaching, at different speeds for different children?
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