Korada Murali

Multi-grade Teaching: Attitudes of Primary School Teachers Korada Murali

The Book focuses on in spite of all the efforts of the Government to increase the quality of schools in particular and quality of education in general; still there are so many areas of school education, which needs attention. Due to the quantitative expansion of schools in various remote parts of the country and also due to the establishment of schools there is a dearth of sufficient number of classrooms and sufficient number of teachers to cater to the needs of the elementary schools. It has become compulsory on the part of the administrators and teachers to implement multi-class or multi-grade teaching in schools. The main function of the Multi-grade teacher is to teach students by imparting knowledge developing skills and inculcating desirable values and attitudes among pupils. The teacher is expected to be versatile and utilize different strategies to make leaning meaningful and effective for all students in his or her classroom, no matter what individual differences may exist among the students.