NCF-2005 Recommendations We need to be able to shift towards school based assessment. We need to device ways in which to make such internal assessment credible. Each school should evolve a flexible and implementable scheme of CCE. NCF-2005 Recommendations The purpose of evaluation is not to motivate children to study under threat; to identify or label children as ‘slow learners’, or ‘bright students’, or ‘problem children’. Such categories segregate children, placing the onus for learning solely on them, and detract from the role and purpose of pedagogy; to identify children who need remediation (this need not wait ...
New English Textbooks for Classes 1-9 (in two phases) NCF-2005,NCFTE-2009 RTE-2009-quality initiatives-CCE APSCF-2011, -Need for a change in the classroom transaction -based on constructivist paradigm Major shift In Pedagogy Child-friendly classroom transaction Why? “We have been teaching the same way we taught ten years ago but now we have an urge to experiment with new ideas in our teaching” (Simon Borg, TEC14). Salient Features of New Textbooks: 1. single book-main reader, Listening material, workbook at the unit level. -Assumed that it would cater to needs of both media 2. thematic approach-construction of Knowledge along with development of Language ...