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The Board of Governors of the KV Sangathan took the decision last week. At present, Central school teachers put in 37 hours per week. The additional workload will be notified shortly to the 1,000-odd schools across the country and is expected to create a stir among the teachers.
“What this will mean is that if a KV teacher spends some six hours and ten minutes in school as of now, she will spend seven-and-a-half hours per day under the new norms,” said a highly placed source.
The Right to Education Act mandates that a teacher must spend 45 hours per week at school with a substantial segment devoted to classroom and the remainder to planning lessons and other school-related activities.
“The idea is that teachers should give a fair amount of time to students in class, complete syllabus at a steady pace instead of rushing it through and spend time in school to plan lessons for the next day and also engage themselves in extra time or remedial teaching to weaker students or events at school. At present, effectively only some 21-22 hours out of the 37 hours are spent teaching,” explained an official.
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