FOCUS AREAS
- Academic, social, ethical, and character development
- Critical and creative thinking
- Conflict resolution and decision making
- Interpersonal relationships
- Practical life skills
- Self-esteem
- Writing and language arts
- Citizenship and personal fitness
CBSE Initiatives and Transformation in Teaching Learning:
CBSE is an international Indian board taking lot of initiatives for excelling education in India and abroad. In education we
face many challenges after the pandemic in terms of availability of resources, quality of the teaching-learning process, teacher training, and technological competency. With the introduction of NEP 2020 CBSE has further strengthened its performance for equity and excellence in education. NEP is aiming at competency and universalization of education for children to face future challenges. We know that, in the last PISA tie test (The Programme for International Student Assessment -PISA) India represented in CBSE Initiatives and Transformation in Teaching Learning: 2009, came in the last but one position. So, we understand that a transformation (a change) in education in the way we transact curriculum is the need of the hour while India trying to participate again in the 2022 international PISA cycle (Chandigarh will
represent India).
Developing aptitudes and skill sets in children and enabling the competency to apply the knowledge and skill sets in real
life situation will bring education to a different level. For that we need a total change in the pedagogical practices, the curriculum transacted, the assessment system, teacher empowerment, enabling an environment for all changes.
CBSE is intending to bring schools slowly to a level wherein External Assessment and Grading of schools will happen
through implementation of School Quality Assessment and Accreditation system. So, the need of the hour is to improve the competency/ability of the teacher to connect concepts with real life situation is of prime importance
in order to gradually lead the learner to new heights of understanding. This is possible only
through experiential learning to make learning joyful by art integration and sport integration. This is the CBSE road map for the future for which teachers should be trained to adapt to changes. Use appropriate tools for assessing
the learning outcomes for competency in education, is also of prior importance for teachers.
The pattern of questions have been slowly changing by CBSE accordingly to incorporate competency based and case based high order thinking questions to test the knowledge and skill set of the child to connect concepts to
real life situation.
Introduction of the 360 degree assessment system indicates the role of every stake holder in bringing competency in education for a child. The assessment tool is for evaluating the level of excellence which is not criticizing but empowering, a tool for assessment of learning and assessment for learning to make appropriate changes during teaching learning process. This is the reason for introducing key stage assessments introduced in NEP to catch the learner’s empowerment level at class 3, 5 and 8, not for pass or fail, but to assess the aptitude and skill set. A technological platform will be provided to deliver this assessment and appropriate intervention is made possible by parent or teacher at these stages.
Intervention at Class 10 and 12 will not give any scope for further improvement/ empowerment, it gives only the level of learning and child goes out of schooling. Connecting the learner’s aptitudes and skill sets with life and learning for life is the idea behind empowering children for life
Hands-on learning is a form of education in which children learn by doing. Instead of simply listening to a teacher or instructor lecture about a given subject, the student engages with the subject matter to solve a problem or create something. Experiential learning environments provide endless hands-on learning benefits for children of all ages. Research has shown that students of all ages learn better when they are actively engaged in their learning journey. As one Scholastic article states, when children have busy hands, they have a busy brain.
Creating a Virtual Art Show: A Time Capsule of Student Success. Virtual shows are a fantastic way to see and celebrate the successes of a historic school year. It’s a digital time capsule students will cherish and revisit for years to come. We are typically scrambling faster than bees, gathering staples, poster boards, and student work for grand displays around this time of year.
Art Pupae – ‘Beyond the Limits’ ONLINE ART EXHIBITION (site123.me)
Children’s Day is celebrated to increase awareness on the rights and education of children every year on November 14. India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru was born on this day in 1889. … After the death of the prime minister, his birth anniversary was chosen as the date for Children’s Day in India.
Children express their thoughts and feelings through art and play. They engage in creative outlets to share their experiences, relieve stress and work through what occurs in their lives. Children lack the developmental ability and life experience to understand, verbally express and process difficult, adverse or traumatic experiences. Infant and child mental health is dependent on adults, typically loving caregivers, to scaffold understanding and experiences to facilitate reasonable emotional, social, cognitive and behavioural responses, such as resilience and empathy.
Competency based learning encourages high quality education in real life contexts as it emphasizes and stresses on the predefined competencies of analysis, critical thinking and conceptual clarity at each level of the learning journey of the student. This learning takes the child beyond the confines of text book, linking their learning to real life. So, competency based learning aims to bring total change in teaching, learning and assessment practices. It will enable children to realize their potentials so that they can fully contribute to the country and the world safe, sustainable and peaceful.
We strongly believe that our present curriculum implementation for the coming year, as explained above, will definitely bring competency in every child of our school. Only request to our dear parents is that please connect your child regularly to the digital class rooms with our teachers to enjoy the interesting lessons we have planned for them in each subject. No excuses are acceptable in this case in connecting your child to the teacher as because only you can do it.
Thank you very much and wish all my children a wonderful year of joyful learning ahead
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