Dimapur, April 20 (EMN): In pursuance to government’s order dated April 19, the Directorate of School Education has issued directives for strict compliance by all employees serving under the department.
According to the directives, all categories of teachers, officers/ staff serving in government schools, DEO/ Sr. SDEO/ SDEO establishments should remain in station and attend duties at respective establishments. It stated that no employee should leave station without obtaining station leave permission from competent authorities.
Teachers should prepare explanatory notes, worksheets, assignments etc. for topics given in textbooks for Classes 1 to 8, while the school heads should make arrangements to distribute the notes, worksheets/ assignments etc. to parents of students once or twice in a week on different days/ timings for different classes so as to follow the SOPs notified by the state government dated April 16, 2021.
Parents/ students should be notified for submission of the completed worksheets/ assignments on specified days at different intervals of time for the different classes. Schools should also collect the completed worksheets/ assignments and distribute new notes, worksheets/ assignments etc. along with feedback of the previous worksheets/ assignments submitted.
Parents are encouraged to take keen interest in the worksheets/ assignments of their children and assist in online/ digital mode of education as far as possible. School heads should also ensure that only a reasonable number of worksheets/ assignments are given to students in order to enable them complete through self-study.
It mentioned that teachers should record details of the worksheets/ assignments prepared, distributed and feedback given etc. in the format given in teachers’ diary and the same should be checked and countersigned by the school heads regularly.
The school heads should upload daily activities in the online school monitoring portal (https://school.dosenl.in/) with effect from April 28 before 4 pm on all working days along with attendance reports of teachers.
It has also asked to encourage use of digital/ online mode of education. It informed that the video lessons broadcasted for classes 5 to 12 during the 2020 lockdown period are still available in the department's Youtube Channel (DoSE Nagaland) and Facebook Page (School Education, Nagaland). It has directed the teachers and students to make use of those videos as well adding that more digital/ video lessons would be provided shortly by the department.
It has also made it mandatory for all government school teachers (including school heads) to register at the teacher’s APP. In this regard, school heads are asked to ensure that all teachers serving under their establishment are registered at the teacher’s App.
It added that the particulars of teachers, who have not yet registered at the teacher’s App due to mobile number mismatch, should be submitted to reports.dosenl@gmail.com through respective DEO/ Sr. SDEO/ SDEO in MS Excel file before April 26.
It has further directed to continue regular classes for students of classes 9 and above by strictly following the SOPs.