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NCF 2005 and Teaching at Elementary Level. Dr. Asha KVD Kamath Regional Institute of Education Mysore. Structure of NCF 2005. Five Chapters- 140 pages Chapter titles 1.Perspective 2. Learning and Knowledge 3. Curriculum Areas, School Stages and Assessment
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NCF 2005 and Teaching at Elementary Level Dr. Asha KVD Kamath Regional Institute of Education Mysore
Structure of NCF 2005 Five Chapters- 140 pages Chapter titles 1.Perspective 2. Learning and Knowledge 3. Curriculum Areas, School Stages and Assessment 4. School and Classroom Environment 5. Systemic Reforms
Guiding Principles of NCF 2005 - Connecting knowledge to life outside the school. • Ensuring the learning is shifted away from rote methods. • Enriching the curriculum to provide for overall development of children rather than remain textbook centric. • Making examinations more flexible and integrated into classroom life. • Nurturing an over-riding identity informed by caring concerns within the democratic polity of the country.
School and Classroom Environment • Teacher is a facilitator and supporter • Opportunities for intelligent guessing • Learner centeredness • Active learner engagement • Learning in the company of others • Giving primacy to learners experiences • Connecting school knowledge and local knowledge, going beyond the textbook • Repeated opportunities to use the knowledge
School and Classroom Environment • Learner friendly atmosphere • Understanding based learning • Respect for multiple views • Multilinguism • Learner autonomy • Flexibility • Opportunities to the learner to evolve and create knowledge
School and Classroom Environment • Greater use of Audio Visual materials including charts, photographs, maps, replicas of archeological and material cultures. • Less of information transmission. • Softening subject boundaries. • Plurality of textbooks/learning materials. • Community participation to enhance quality and accountability.
NCF 2005 and School Subjects Languages – Emphasis on reading- a solid foundation for school learning. Mathematics - Succeeding is the right of every child. Enhance child’s resources to think and reason, to visualize and handle abstractions.
Science – enable child to: - examine and analyze everyday experiences - deal with issues related to environment - take up activities involving outdoor project work - generate knowledge through discovery learning Social Science- integration as well as disciplinary approach -sensitivity towards issues
Work Education- Transforms knowledge into experience and generates values. Art Education- Music, dance, visual arts and theatre. - to express oneself in different forms - interactive approach and not instruction
Physical and Health Education- more attention to be given Peace – pre condition for development -socialising children into a democratic culture. -appropriate activities
Teaching - learning strategies Critical Pedagogy - Provides opportunities to reflect critically on issues in terms of their political, social, economic and moral aspects. • Accepts multiple views. • Democratic form of interaction. • Facilitates collective decision making through open discussion by encouraging and recognizing multiple views.
Experiential Learning • Direct participation in the events of life. • Reflect upon everyday experiences • Create space for exploration- data collection, classification, labelling, analyzing……..
Concept Mapping and Concept Map • Selecting key concepts and sub concepts, linking them through prepositions. • Making meaning out of horizontal and vertical linkages.
Creative Writing / Work - develops cognitive and affective abilities • allows for free expression of thought, feeling and emotions • poster making, story boards, story telling, etc.