Telangana school teachers to turn inspectors

The State government rolled out new inspection guidelines, assigning two percent of the teachers working in the State for inspection, monitoring and supervision of schools across all districts.

Hyderabad: The State government on Saturday rolled out inspection guidelines, assigning two percent of the teachers working in the State for inspection, monitoring and supervision of schools across all districts.

As per proceedings issued by School Education Director Dr. E Naveen Nicolas, a high school teacher drafted as inspector is required to make surprise inspections of one high school per day with an average of 50 high schools per quarter. Similarly, the primary and upper primary school teachers need to inspect two primary schools per day with an average of 100 schools per quarter and re-inspect to ensure short-coming were addressed.

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Generally, the inspection and monitoring is to be done by the MEOs, DyDEOs and DEOs. While several of these posts remain vacant with teachers’ unions demanding their filling up via promotions, the government decided to monitor schools via teaching staff.
The inspectors, who will be drafted as full time, will have to check academic issues such as lesson plans, syllabus completion as per academic calendar and assessment. Apart from examining co-curricular activities, the inspectors are tasked to inspect libraries, laboratories and physical education activities.

The order mandates that teachers with a minimum of 10 years of experience, subject competency, participation in-service training programme and no past or pending disciplinary actions will be drafted as inspectors.

As many as 24,146 government and local body schools with 16,381 primary, 3,094 upper primary and 4,671 upper primary schools are operational in the State.