Bhatt, Hemraj
(2009)
Voice of a teacher : reading and learning my experiments in my village school.
Learning Curve (13).
pp. 34-37.
Abstract
The Uttarakhand Education Department, in
November 2006, decided to create new
textbooks for primary school based on the
guidelines of the National Curriculum
Framework 2005. I was included in the
team of twelve teachers and authors who were given
the responsibility of developing the book for Class
1. “Hasee-Khushi,” our book, was to be a combined
textbook for Hindi, Mathematics and Environmental
Studies. Our team had teachers with a background in
Mathematics and Hindi but we were going to write a
“combined” Class 1 textbook and that made the task
challenging.
Our new textbook was also going to break new ground -
to introduce children directly to words/sentences,
rather than beginning with the alphabet and making
them “mug up” the letters. No importance was to be
given to writing in Class 1. Instead, children were to be
given adequate opportunities to listen to and speak
the language, followed by picture description and
thereafter by word reading. Once the children learnt
reading words/sentences, they could be taught to
identify letters using these words/sentences.
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