Managing MGT (Part-1) According to an estimate, children waste half of their time while at school every day in more than 60,000 (out of about 130,000) public sector primary schools in Pakistan. This happens due to the fact that children are taught in a ‘Multigrade Teaching’ environment. Multigrade Teaching or MGT refers to a situation at a school where a single teacher teaches two or more classes in parallel in the same classroom. Under the current MGT conditions in public-sector schools, when the teacher teaches one group, the other group(s) remains idle. In the short term, this has serious potential to make them disinterested in learning during the time they spend in the classroom. In the long run, this may potentially impact negatively on the learning attitude and behaviour of children in the later years of their educational career.