Moral education classes revived in Tamil Nadu schools

Chennai: The State School Education Department has revived moral values education classroom sessions from this year. All government and its aided schools will now have one session every week to teach moral values. “It is not only important that we make students perform well in academics, but also mould them as responsible citizens, which can be made possible only if provide them value based moral education.

Keeping this in mind students from Class 6 to 10 in government and its aided schools will now have one session every week dedicated for moral values,” State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) Director V.C. Rameswara Murugan said.

SCERT has coined the term ‘'value integrated teaching & learning (Vital)' for the value education course. The council has selected one theme from every lesson totalling 20 values, namely compassion for elders, teamwork, creativity, patriotism, compassion towards animals, thanks giving and hard work.

“Our team of experts have taken one sentence from each lesson, which speaks about values and with that sentence we will teach students about the values,” Mr Murugan explained. The council plans to train one teacher per school, totalling 20,000 teachers in value education, for which training programme would commence from August.