MY SCHOOL by Dr .Nilesh Gopal das Joshi (beginner reading books for adults .txt) 📕

kept under the custody of the Head of the Office. Another copy shall be given to the employee. Every step of an employee’s service life must be recorded in the service book. Each entry is also to be attested by the head of the office. As per direction of the head of the office the employee shall submit the service book every year for verification. After necessary entry the same will be returned to the employee. Both the copies of service book shall be treated as original. Following information are generally entered in a service book: - Date of Birth of the employee. Statement whether medical and police verification reports are satisfactory. Statement whether name or surname has been changed. Copy of nomination for death gratuity, group insurance, GPF etc. should be attached with the service book. Family details as per Appendix I of DCRB Rule is to be written. While an employee is transferred, up to date entries is to be made in the service book and is also transferred to the head of the office of the new place of posting. As such the service is to be verified by the head of the office up to the date of last pay drawn from his office. Head of the office should show the service book to the concerned employee and obtain signature from the employee each year. In case of transfer to foreign service the head of the office or department shall send the service book to the Audit Officer as the Auditor General may prescribe. No entry is to be attested while on foreign service by any authority other than the Audit Officer. After re-transfer to the Government service the service book is again sent to the Audit Officer for necessary noting.

Student Profile

A student profile provides a summary of information about the student’s academic and social progress. It clearly presents what a student actually is. This profile gives a clear picture about personal data, family background, health information, scholastic and non-scholastic development, personal traits etc. It is to be kept by class teachers. Developing a student profile helps to provide a deeper understanding of an individual’s unique interests, styles and abilities. By gathering information from a variety of sources, teachers are in a better position to make educational decisions that will enhance the student’s development. It is necessary that the school should have as much information on every one of students as possible without violating their privacy.

While writing a paragraph describing the strengths and needs of the student, we should describe what the student does well, and it does not need to be limited to academics. If the child has good rapport with teachers or gets along well with peers, it is appropriate to mention that in the paragraph. The statement should address academic deficits as well as physical or mental limitations that make it difficult for the student to participate fully in the educational process.

While writing a paragraph describing how the student’s disability affects his involvement in the general educational setting, we could address curriculum modifications and teaching accommodations in this paragraph. Modifications are changes to what is being taught to the student or the level at which it is taught in relation to his peers. Accommodations do not change what is being taught or the level, but instead provide strategies to make the tasks easier for students to accomplish. For example, a visually impaired student may be provided textbooks with extra-large print, a student with an orthopedic impairment may be given copies of class notes or outlines rather than being required to write them out.

While writing a paragraph assessing the student, list current test data results including the names of the assessments, the date on which the assessments were given and the student’s scores. Also, list the student’s current grade in each academic class.

While writing a paragraph describing progress toward annual goals mastery and present level of performance, we should also include any comments or concerns expresses by the student, his/her teachers or parents.

Importance includes;

It provides current and first-hand information on the student’s situation. It can have the data submitted by the student himself as well as information supplemented by staff members. It will be used as a reference in case of any emergency It makes it easy to locate student’s relatives during emergency.

Cumulative Record

Cumulative record cards have been introduced in the centers of learning to collect information about a child during his/her student career. The cumulative record refers to all records which make provision for the collection of valuable, useful and reliable information about a student over a period of years with a view to help him/her in their student life and at the time of leaving it in the manifold problems of educational, vocational, personal and social nature. The student can get much help for achieving maximum development in life.

Student’s cumulative record folder is a storehouse of information on student’s cognitive, affective and psychomotor development. Cumulative record card contains complete and comprehensive record of the student, indicating his/her bio data, date of admission, progress from year to year, attainment in various subjects and activities, intelligence, aptitude, interest and information from school to school. It is a document in which the relevant information about a particular student at one educational institution is recorded cumulatively. This gives a complete and growing picture of the individual student, which helps him during his long stay at the school and at the time of leaving it, in the solution of his manifold problems of educational, vocational, personal and social. It follows the pupil from class to class and school to school. It provides an opportunity to have a comprehensive picture of the all-round development of the personality of the child. It is a very important record which should be maintained in every school. In view of the growing importance of cumulative records, The Secondary Education Commission recommended that “these should be a common feature of all schools, all over the country”.

The Nature of cumulative Record Card

It is a fact of experience that every child grows and develops as an entity. We can understand the behavior and personality make-up of the child at a given time, if we can collect information about the child in the light of past activities. The most important characteristic of such information is comprehensiveness and continuity.

It reflects continuous assessment on student’s educational or academic progress. It also reflects student’s performance in extracurricular activities. It could be useful by researchers on both child development study and school management. It keeps the whole history of a child during his school life.

The Content of the Cumulative Record Card

The contents of the cumulative record cards are as follows:

General Considerations Information should be collected on the basis of the growth and development of the students The type of information to be included should be determined on the basis of the needs of the schools. Information should be collected on different aspects of the personality of the child Types of Information

The types of information to be included in the record card are:

Identification of Data

Data Collected from Environment and Background:

Data is collected from home, neighborhood influences, socio-economic status of the family, cultural status of home, number of brothers and sisters in the family and their educational background and occupations in the family.

Psychological Data

Tests of intelligence, aptitude and interests, personality, emotional and social adjustment and attitudes.

Physical Data

This includes weight of the body, height, physical disabilities, illness etc.

Educational Data

This includes previous school records, educational attainments, marks obtained in the school, school attendance, long absences etc.

The card should include activities in the physical, intellectual, artistic, social and recreational fields, which have a bearing on the student’s educational and vocational growth. Taking into consideration the individual’s life goals, ideals and aspirations, data should be collected on educational and vocational preference and plans of the student.

In short, we can say that, cumulative record is a file of general school information that contains grades, attendance, discipline, standardized assessment reports and other information from a student’s educational career.

Parents have the right to inspect the file and have copies of any information contained in a cumulative file. When parents want to know why their child is struggling in school, the student’s cumulative file is one of the documents they examine.

Need and Purpose of Educational Records

The cumulative record card is needed because it helps the teacher and counsellors to understand the child and to present a developmental picture of the child. It enables the teacher to assist the child in the solution of the manifold problems which confront them during their stay and at the time of leaving it.

A thorough review of a student’s records involves analysis of his entire educational history. So evaluators try to get records from any previous schools the child may have attended. Information from the student’s files may provide important details that help examiners understand why the child is having learning problems in school.

Such information is especially helpful if the child is too young to articulate what the problem is, and parents and teachers are confused as well about their learning difficulties. It should also be remembered that a cumulative record card is not meant to be a tool in the hands of authorities for taking certain decisions about the child on certain matters of his/her life nor is it meant to serve just as a means of measurement and assessment.

Contents of a Child’s Cumulative Record

In addition to the information already mentioned, cumulative files typically contain a history of programs children have attended, previous support services provided to children or their family members, and an educational performance history.

Cumulative files also feature the names of past teachers who may be available for further research on the student’s educational history. Such files also contain records about the number of times a student may have changed schools and the student’s health records, such as immunization records. So, this information can shed light on why student’s struggle, but it may not reveal whether a student has a learning disability that requires special education services.

Educational Records with Special Education History

Some students may in special education classes. Students with a history of placement in special education will have a special education folder that school faculty will consult during the educational records review. The special education folder is typically stored separately from the child’s cumulative folder to protect the student’s confidentiality rights.

Only educators with a legitimate educational interest in the child have access to the folder.

Use of the Cumulative Record Card

It helps the teachers and counsellors to identify the needs of the individual students and understand their manifold problems. It helps counsellors to know the strengths and weaknesses of individual students and deal with them. It aids teachers and counsellors to discover special abilities in students which should be developed. It furnishes suggestions and reasons as to why certain students are not adjusted to the school situation. It contains data which may be useful in conferring with certain students about behavioral problems. It provides information, which is helpful while talking with students about their achievements in school. It furnishes assistance to counsellors in aiding students to plan their high school and post high school courses to study intelligently. It is valuable in assessing the students’ occupational insight and in aiding them to become realistic in their vocational planning. It provides much of the raw material which is used in the making of case studies of certain problem students. It is of use in conferences with parents about the achievement and school adjustment of their children.

 

It forms an excellent basis for reports to colleges, school and prospective employers.

Classroom Uses of Cumulative Record

When a teacher wants to make a systematic appraisal of a student for the purpose of seeing trends in his physical, intellectual, social and emotional development. When a teacher wants to understand a behavior or discipline problem in the class. When a teacher wants to confer with parents about their child’s progress and also failure. When a teacher wants to group his students for instruction within a class and aims at more individualized instruction. When a teacher wants to find out children with special abilities or handicaps to provide instruction which accords with their individual needs. When a teacher wants to identify students who need special diagnostic study