NCF
2005 is based on Yash pal Committee’s Report
‘Learning without Burden’
A
National Advisory Committee was set up by the Government in March 1992 under
the chairmanship of Prof. Yash Pal, former Chairman of the UGC to suggest ways
and means to reduce academic burden on school students. The Committee popularly
known as Yash Pal Committee.
EDUCATION IN INDIA PROBLEMS
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Inflexibility
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Learning isolated activity
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Discourage Creative Thinking
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No new knowledge created
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Future of child more important than present.
BASIC
QUESTIONS:
How can we
organise the environment in the school and classroom so that interactions
support and enhance both teaching and learning?
·
How can the space of the school be nurtured as a
context where children feel safe, happy and wanted, and which teachers find
meaningful and professionally satisfying?
Vision of
NCF -2005
1.
Strengthening a national system of edu. In pluralistic
society.
2.
Reducing the curriculum load- learning without burden.
3.
Ensuring quality education for all children.
4.
Building citizenry committed to democratic practices,
values, sensitivity toward gender Justice.
Academic
planning
For Augmentation and improvement of the
physical resources of the school.
1.
To address the diverse needs of students and to
identify the input and academic support that the school needs in order to
respond to these needs.
2.
A broad frame work for planning upward beginning with
school- cluster and block levels- district planning.
NURTURING
AN ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
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The culture of the school must be one that highlights
the students’ identities as
‘learners’
and creates an environment that enhances the potential and interests of each
child.
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An enabling learning environment is one where children
feel secure, where there is absence of fear, and which is governed by
relationships of equality and equity.
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Teachers practise equality and not discriminate among
children.
physical
environment
Availability
and provision of physical environment plays significant role in improving the
teaching performance in teaching/ learning process. Space, building ,furniture,
equipment, flexible , timing for planning daily schedule etc. are minimum
requirements of a teacher school head/ cluster head/ regional heads should
focus on their supports to teachers . Structuring of infrastructure ural
facilities is essential for paving the way for improving teacher performance.
Guiding principles NCF 2005
1.
Connecting knowledge to life outside the school.
2.
Ensuring that learning is shifted away from role
method.
3.
Enriching the curriculum to provide overall dev of the
child rather than remain text book enteric.
4.
Making exam more flexible.
5.
Humanitarian practices.
6. Importance
of aims of education
Aims of
education
Aims
of education serve as broad guidelines to coordinate educational processes to
chosen ideas and accepted principles.
a.
These simultaneously reflect the current needs and
aspirations of a society as well as its lasting values.
b.
These also reflect immediate concerns of a community as
well as broad human ideals.
c.
It helps the teachers connect her present classroom
activity to a cherished future out come.
d.
Elements
of elementary schooling:-
This period of
elementary school ( class I to VIII) has been recognized as compulsory
schooling vide constitutional amendment making education, A fundamental right.
Education during this period must be an integrated character enabling children
to acquire language competency and expression and to grow self confidence in learners both within and
outside school.
Curriculum
Curriculum reforms should result
in improved quality
of educational provisions
at different stages.
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Quality
expresses the system’s capacity
to reform itself
for enhancing its ability to remedy
its own weaknesses.
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Quality of curriculum
is not merely
a measure of
efficiency; it also a
value dimension.
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The attempt to
improve the quality
of education will
succeed only if it
goes hand in hand
with steps to
promote equality and
social justice.
Assessment in
the course of teaching:
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Preparing
Report cards- showing
what child has
learnt during the
said period and
what he/she needs to
work on and
improve.
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One does not
need special test
for this act.
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Learning
activities themselves provide
the basis for
such ongoing observational and
qualitative assessment of children.
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Maintenance of a
daily dairy based
on observation’s held in
CCE.
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Problems regarding
conceptual development can be
detected by a teacher,
in the course
of teaching only by
asking questions that
make children think
or by giving
them small assignments.
Evaluation/Examination
1. A shift away from context based testing to problem solving
skills,
2. A shift towards shorter
examination
3. An Examination with a
flexible time limit.
4. Setting up of a single nodal
agency for coordinating the design and conduct of entrance exams.
Home
Work:
Primary:-
No home work up to class II and two hrs a week from Class III
Middle
School – one hrs a day (about 5 to 6 hrs a week)
Secondary
and Hr. Sec:- 2 hrs a day (about 10-12 hrs a week hrs need to work together to
plan and rationalize the amount of homework they give children
Libraries
- One period a week to be devoted
to Library reading.
- During this time children
sit and read
silently in the
library.
- They return the books borrowed previous week
and borrow new
ones.
- If There is no
Library room, the teacher can
bring out books appropriate to the age
group and allow
children to choose from the set.
- Library books can be brought into the
language class.
