[ Litem Eshi Ori ]
PASIGHAT, 21 Dec: Primary teachers (PRT) from Upper Siang, Siang and East Siang districts are undergoing a three-day ‘foundational teachers’ training programme’ on functional literacy and numeracy, which got underway at the DIET here in East Siang on Tuesday.
“The foundational stage comprises three years of pre-primary (nursery, KG and upper KG) and two years of primary (Classes 1 and 2),” DIET Principal Biren Dutta informed.
“This provision aims to curb the detrimental trend of the downward extension of primary curriculum to pre-primary classes that was resulting in overload of teaching-learning content, causing extreme stress and overwork to the early learners who were expected to master reading, writing and numbers operations at the pre-primary stage,” he said.
