Teaching Learning Practices Survey (TLPS) 2025
TLPS 2025 Report is now LIVE
TLPS 2025 is India’s first large-scale, multi-state study that examines how teaching and learning take place inside early-grade classrooms.
It goes beyond assessments to understand how teaching and learning of language and mathematics unfold in Grades 1 and 2.
It was conceptualised to provide systematic, national-level evidence on teaching practices for language and mathematics.
Some of the main findings from the Survey are:
In two-thirds of the classrooms, children were mostly quiet and had few opportunities to speak freely, engage in conversation with the teacher, or learn from one another.
Although 73% teachers knew the children’s home languages, only 10% used them consistently to enhance children’s participation and comprehension.
Over half the teachers relied on asking questions to the whole class, which elicited a choral response from the children. Very few teachers checked for individual children’s understanding through varied methods.
Only 30% of teachers used differentiated teaching strategies to support children at different learning levels.
The use of children’s real-life experiences and open-ended questions to encourage children to think and express themselves during oral language activities was limited.
The teaching of decoding was not systematic and relied either on writing letters and words or on just one activity to reinforce sound-symbol association and blending.
In 53% of classrooms, children did not use TLMs at all.
More than half the teachers gave children mathematics tasks to work independently. Overall, 16% teachers observed the children, corrected their work, and provided feedback.
Of the total lesson time (40 minutes), 27% is found to be off-task. Out of the remaining time, 49% of the time was used in mechanical activities.
While 52% teachers reported receiving academic support, the remaining 48% reported irregular visits, inadequate or no support.
TLPS 2025 includes two types of recommendation:
Classroom Level
Grounded in survey findings
System Level
To enable and sustain effective teaching practices
Expert Speak
“I am happy to see the release of this study, the Teaching Learning Practices Survey (TLPS). The findings provide a strong evidence base. Given the scale of the sample, the insights emerging from this can be seen as reflective of teaching and learning practices across the country.”
– Shri Sanjay Kumar, IAS, Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education, Government of India
Smt Archana Sharma Awasthi highlighted how the NEP 2020 policy can be brought into action in classrooms through joyful and play-based learning and by using children’s most familiar languages for early learning.
– Ms Archana Sharma Awasthi, Joint Secretary (Samagra Shiksha-l& Adult Education), Ministry of Education, Government of India
9
States
21
Districts
1,050
Classrooms
5
Organisations
Study conducted by
Language and Learning Foundation (Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh)
Partners
Supported by
Evaluation agency
2030 MISSION
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