1. Stepping stones
Enhancing the quality of primary
education in India
Submitted by
B. Muralidhar
S. Ranaveera Reddy
S. Maniteja
K. Gowtham
M. Sampath

2. Facts:
▸ 50 percent of Standard 3 students could read a Standard
1 text. About 50 percent of the Std 3 kids cannot even
correctly recognise digits up to 100, where as they are
supposed to learn two digit subtraction.
Causes:
▸ Failing utterly to cultivate interest among students
Schools don’t provide a supportive environment for
academic success or self esteem. Many students are
forced to school but not attracted towards the school
▸ Untrained and inexperienced teacher
14 percent of the dropouts are because of
discouragement of teachers
Quality of education

3. ▸ Improve life skill activities to encourage students to
participate in creative,enterrtaining activities that
develop learning skills.
▸ Such as introducing abacus in maths
▸ Implementing digital methods of teaching (animation
,interactive games)
▸ Physical education should be made mandatory
▸ By introducing Montessori way of teaching
Proposed solution
To invoke interest among students

4. ▸ It was first founded by Italian physician educator Maria
Montessori
Principles of Montessori education
▸ Student choice of activity within a permitted range of
options
▸ Uninterrupted blocks of work time basically 3 hours
▸ A constructivist and discovery model were students
learn concepts from working with materials rather than
by working instruction
▸ Freedom of movement within the classroom

5. ▸ Self construction, liberty, spontaneous activity
The model has two basic elements
▸ Children and developing adults engage in
psychological self construction by means of interaction
with their environments
▸ Montessori believed that children at liberty to choose
and act freely within an environment prepared
according to her model would act spontaneously for
optimal development
▸ In the Montessori approach human tendencies
(exploration, communication, manipulation, exactness,
self perfection) are seen as driving
Montessori education theory

6. ▸ Utmost priority should be given to psychology science
in teacher training
▸ Regular reviews should be taken on the teacher by a
special committee consisting of parents and officials
from various fields
▸ Teachers should be given Montessori training
▸ Salaries should be improved
▸ Teachers working in private schools should also be
trained and supervised
▸ Private teachers also should be given same previlage
Measures to be taken in
teachers recruitment

7. ▸ An idea to improve infrastructure in govt schools and
improving values in private schools is
COLOBRATING private and government schools
▸ That is 50 percent investment of private schools has to
be given by government they have to provide land for
playground
▸ And teacher recruitment should be done by the
government
▸ Free education should be provided to economically
backward students
▸ In this method there will be good salaries for teachers
▸ Laboratories should be made mandatory
Infrastructure Management

8. ▸ Students should be trained in arts basing on their
interests and make money by selling these arty-crafts
so that children could gain some pocket money
▸ Parents should be counselled regularly not only
teachers but also by influential personalities and
psychologists
▸ As long as students study in the school government
should provide medical care
Decreasing the dropout rate