Dear Friends,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
May the New Year bring you all joys, peace of mind, prosperity, happiness, success, fame, wisdom, love and the Blessings of the Lord!
My New Year Resolution is to re-dedicate my life to help all concerned in imparting values through education using both the conventional and the high-tech approaches. There has to be a Life-connect and activities that bind our future generation to our roots and yet let them soar in the realms of their latent potentialities in an age of innovation & creativity.
What gives me the confidence and expertise that I can do this is:
I spent the first 26 years of my career at Vishwa Bharati, with girl students only; 12 years in the Women’s Degree College, 2 years in the 10+2 Girls School and then 11 years as the Founder Principal of a Residential Women’s Teacher Education College. Vishwa Bharati was committed to welfare of Women and the basic tenets of philosophy were Shiviaism, Sufism and Mysticism.
I had the privilege of being Project Director of NCERT National Conferences on Development of ‘Value Development Models of Teaching’ at Indore and at Srinagar. We developed two models: ‘The Value Dilemma Model’ and ‘The Jurisprudence Value Development Model.’
As Educational Consultant and Dean Academics for over 5 years at Darshan Education Foundation, I was responsible for Training Teachers in the implementation of a Spiritual Curriculum developed by the Organization. The Curriculum was based on the science of spirituality and included Life Skills, Peace, Meditation, Non-violence, Vegetarianism, Universal Brotherhood, Self-Introspection and Love & Respect for all Creation.
I have worked on my Research on Cognitive Development for several years at RCE Ajmer and in the process delved deep into Stages of Cognitive Development, Stages of Moral Development, Adolescent Psychology, Behavior Modification, Counseling techniques and Pedagogy required for the 21’st Century.
You will all appreciate that the need of the hour demands that we help our teachers, educators and administrators in creating a congenial climate for Value Education and learn how to do it. The CBSE has also recently come up with a Manual for Value Education, Value Cards etc and this can be of great help.
I count on guidance and support of the members of the IECS Academic Advisory Board:
Dr. Arjun Badlani, Dr. Avtar Singh,Dr. B.Singh, Dr. Dheeraj Mehrotra, Dr. Rakesh Chander, Dr. Ranjan Roy, Dr. S. Arora, Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia, Mr. Anil Sharma, Mr. IR Pathak, Mr. P.S.Kalra, Mr. Sanju Tiwari,
Mr. Suraj Prakash, Mr. Vikram Dutt, Mr. Yog Raj, Mrs. Arti Khosla, Mrs. Mukta Misra, Mrs. Neera Mathur, Mrs. Paramjit Kaur, Mrs. Sadhna Pandey, Mrs. KR Maalati and Mrs. Rupam Sah.
I will also be seeking the cooperation of Educators, Administrators and Trainers like:
Dr. Nisha Peshin, Dr. Usha Tickoo, Mr. Anil Kumar Sharma, Mr. Anirudh Gupta, Mr. Arun Gupta,
Mr. Ashish Agarwal, Mr. Bharat Bhushan Jha, Mr. Kirpal Singh, Mr. Mohd Yussouf Wani, Mr. Mushtaq Mehindru, Mr. Ram Singh, Mr. RD Sharma, Mr. SL Jain, Mr. Vekat Aalagiri, Mr. Yogendra Singh, Mrs. Arti Chopra, Mrs. Harinder Sraw, Mrs. Kusum Warikoo, Mrs. Kavita Lohia Bajpayai, Mrs. Manjeet Kaur Makkar, Mrs. Monica Saraswat, Mrs. Namreeta Anandani, Mrs. Rupa Chakravarti, Mrs. Shyma Hawa, Mrs. Sona Babar and Mrs. Urmil Vajpai.
I am hopeful that with the efforts of all of us we will be able to give our education that cutting edge that helps us to bring a social change that is deliberate & planned and enables to reconstruct a society that is modern & progressive, liberal & free and yet safe, secure and just.
Monday, December 31, 2012
Thursday, January 5, 2012
CBSE- CCE SCHEME- Class X SA-2 in 2012
The CBSE CCE Scheme introduced in Oct. 2009; has been a major demand since pre-independence period. Reform in Education & Evaluation has been the concern of all Educational Committees and Commissions.
Education has to ensure holistic development of all aspects of the personality of a student. Schools have focused on Scholastic Areas and marks too long and ignored Life Skills, Values, Attitudes, Performance and Participation of students. The result has been a crisis of character and conscience.
Evaluation is integral to teaching learning and has to help in both the processes.Students need to be assessed continuously in a stress free environment and feedback given to students and parents.
Teachers have to assess their own teaching and the students learning and diagnose the deficiencies and organize remediation. This is assessment for learning and is done through Formative Assessments, twice in each term; four times in a year. Assessment of learning is done twice a year, at the end of each semester and is called Summative assessment.
CBSE has stipulated Course content for each SA and Question Papers with Marking Schemes are sent to Schools. For FA’s teachers are required to use various tools & techniques like: Projects, Assignments, Quiz, Laboratory Work in Math & Science, Discussion, Survey, Presentations and an occasional paper pencil test.
Thus a year has Two Terms: April to Sept. and Oct. to March. Each Term has Two FA’s and an SA at the end of the Term. Hence during the year there are Four FA’s and Two SA’s. The weight age of each FA is 10% and SA is 30% from 2011 Class IX. In 2012 Class X, it is Sa-1 20% and SA-2 40%.
CBSE has thus moved over to School Based Evaluation and made evaluation continuous. Schools that are 10+2 Schools have to conduct internal SA-2 for all students; except those who intend to change the Board after Class X and make a request for the same in writing, well in advance in Oct.
The SA-2 held at School-internal- or held by CBSE-external- are both conducted on the same Syllabus. Question papers & Marking Scheme are provided by CBSE in both the cases. Evaluation is done at the School in internal and by the Board in external; as per the Marking Scheme; checked and moderated, where required by CBSE in both the cases.
Schools are required to send Grades for the remaining 60% evaluation already conducted by the School to CBSE, in both the cases. CBSE tabulates and declares the Results. There is no pass or fail.
The Certificates of all students-internal or external are issued by the CBSE and have no difference. The Certificate does not make any mention of SA-2 as external or internal.
Students of 10+2 Schools move normally from X to XI and the students face only one external examination at the end of schooling at XII.
CCE hence ensures development & assessment of proper Thinking, Social, Emotional Skills, Attitudes and Values. Aesthetic, Scientific, Cultural and Literary tastes are developed and students learn subjects like Science & Math and excel in Life.
Education has to ensure holistic development of all aspects of the personality of a student. Schools have focused on Scholastic Areas and marks too long and ignored Life Skills, Values, Attitudes, Performance and Participation of students. The result has been a crisis of character and conscience.
Evaluation is integral to teaching learning and has to help in both the processes.Students need to be assessed continuously in a stress free environment and feedback given to students and parents.
Teachers have to assess their own teaching and the students learning and diagnose the deficiencies and organize remediation. This is assessment for learning and is done through Formative Assessments, twice in each term; four times in a year. Assessment of learning is done twice a year, at the end of each semester and is called Summative assessment.
CBSE has stipulated Course content for each SA and Question Papers with Marking Schemes are sent to Schools. For FA’s teachers are required to use various tools & techniques like: Projects, Assignments, Quiz, Laboratory Work in Math & Science, Discussion, Survey, Presentations and an occasional paper pencil test.
Thus a year has Two Terms: April to Sept. and Oct. to March. Each Term has Two FA’s and an SA at the end of the Term. Hence during the year there are Four FA’s and Two SA’s. The weight age of each FA is 10% and SA is 30% from 2011 Class IX. In 2012 Class X, it is Sa-1 20% and SA-2 40%.
CBSE has thus moved over to School Based Evaluation and made evaluation continuous. Schools that are 10+2 Schools have to conduct internal SA-2 for all students; except those who intend to change the Board after Class X and make a request for the same in writing, well in advance in Oct.
The SA-2 held at School-internal- or held by CBSE-external- are both conducted on the same Syllabus. Question papers & Marking Scheme are provided by CBSE in both the cases. Evaluation is done at the School in internal and by the Board in external; as per the Marking Scheme; checked and moderated, where required by CBSE in both the cases.
Schools are required to send Grades for the remaining 60% evaluation already conducted by the School to CBSE, in both the cases. CBSE tabulates and declares the Results. There is no pass or fail.
The Certificates of all students-internal or external are issued by the CBSE and have no difference. The Certificate does not make any mention of SA-2 as external or internal.
Students of 10+2 Schools move normally from X to XI and the students face only one external examination at the end of schooling at XII.
CCE hence ensures development & assessment of proper Thinking, Social, Emotional Skills, Attitudes and Values. Aesthetic, Scientific, Cultural and Literary tastes are developed and students learn subjects like Science & Math and excel in Life.
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