Matric School Chennai – Moving Towards Problem Solving Approach

Reforms in the education system is crucial for the upliftment society. Parents aspire for professional courses, the society aims at socially conscious citizen whereas the industries are looking for skills. Tough task lies in the hands of the educationalists to design a curriculum to meet the requirements of all the heterogeneous society. The Government of Tamilnadu has a vision plan for the students. They have initiated reforms in the educational system by launching the new curriculum followed by Matric schools in Chennai.

The new curriculum comes with a host of challenges like rote learning supported by predictable examination model, poor analytical skills and relying on theory than practical approach. Moreover, it is felt that the syllabus is disconnected from the real life scenario. All this with the lack of vernacular language fluency has become a challenge for the government curriculum.

The introduction of National Level Entrance Tests (NEET) has triggered a major reform in the Tamil Nadu textbooks. Though, one cannot ignore the concerns of the demand to updating the curriculum to meet the dynamics of the national level tests. Finally, Tamil Nadu has began the process of redesigning the textbooks and contents. Traditionally, textbooks were a warehouse of knowledge where the student will not require any additional reference material or supplementary resource. But the new textbooks has changed this scenario. 

New textbooks have a pinch of technology and features like inforgraphs, case studies, reference book names, web links, concept maps, information and communications technology. They also add mobile apps and web resources. 

The examination pattern of national level tests shows an unusual trend. For this purpose the higher secondary curriculum was reoriented with few structural changed. The students lose out in physics and chemistry due to the conventional approach as they rely on theory ignoring the problem solving approach. The new textbooks have filled this gap by redesigning to give importance to problem solving.