This document proposes solutions to improve the quality of primary education in India. It finds that 50% of students cannot perform basic literacy and math skills. This is due to a lack of interest cultivated in schools and untrained teachers. It recommends introducing Montessori teaching methods, which emphasize student choice and hands-on learning. This could help invoke more interest among students. It also suggests improving teacher training, salaries, and infrastructure sharing between public and private schools to enhance the primary education system in India.

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