NCERT Alternative Academic Calendar for Schools

NCERT Alternative Academic Calendar

NCERT Alternative Academic Calendar is developed by the NCERT under the guidance of the MHRD. The step was taken to engage students during the lockdown or stay at home due to COVID-19 through educational activities at home.

The alternative academic calendar was released by  Union Human Resource Development Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ in New Delhi on 16th April 2020.

Speaking on the occasion the Minister said that this Calendar provides guidelines to teachers on the use of various technological tools and social media tools available for imparting education in fun-filled, interesting ways, which can be used by the learner to learn even while at home.

All the classes from I-XII and subject areas will be covered under this calendar. This calendar will cater to the need of all children including Divyangchildren (Children with Special Need)- link for Audiobooks, Radio programmes, Video programme will be included.

Shri Pokhriyal further said that the calendar contains a week-wise plan consisting of interesting and challenging activities, with reference to theme/chapter taken from syllabus or textbook. Most importantly, it maps the themes with the learning outcomes. The purpose of mapping of themes with learning outcomes is to facilitate teachers/parents to assess the progress in the learning of children and also to go beyond textbooks.

The Minister highlighted that the calendar also covers experiential learning activities such as Arts Education, Physical Exercises, yoga, pre-vocational skills, etc. This Calendar contains class-wise and subject-wise activities in tabular forms. This Calendar includes activities related to four languages as subject areas, i.e., Hindi English, Urdu and Sanskrit. This calendar also gives space to the strategies of reducing stress and anxiety among teachers, students, and parents. The calendar includes a link for Chapter wise e-content available on the e-pathshala, NROER and DIKSHA portal of GoI.

The Minister also said that all the given activities are suggestive in nature, not prescriptive, nor is the sequence mandatory. Teachers and parents may opt to contextualise the activities and do those activities that the student shows interest in, irrespective of the sequence.

This calendar would be disseminated through DTH Channels and also conducting video conferencing with SCERTs, Directorates of Education, SCERTs, KendriyaVidyalaySangathan, NavodayaVidyalayaSamiti, CBSE, State School Education Boards, etc.

NCERT Alternative Academic Calendar will empower the students, teachers, school principals and parents to find out positive ways to deal with COVID-19 using on-line teaching-learning resources and also improving their learning outcomes getting school education at home.

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