Iconic Week Celebrated by Department of School Education and Literacy

Under Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, Department of School Education and Literacy planned to celebrate Iconic Week from 17th to 21st January 2022. A series of events was organised as part of iconic week including international webinar on Toys and Games to Play, Make and Learn, 27th National Conference of S... Read More

CBSE Directs Schools Not to Start the New Academic Session Before April 2023

Schools have been strictly instructed by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to follow the academic calendar and not to start the new academic session before April 1. They are advised to follow the academic session from April 1 to March 31. A circular was issued by the board after it was... Read More

Education Department: Align Ages for Class 1 to 6+

Recently, the Centre ordered the state and union territory administrations to standardise the admissions age range for grade 1 to at least the age of six years. Additionally, it suggested that they start the process of creating and executing a two-year diploma programme in early childhood education,... Read More

7 Steps to conduct Student Friendly and High-learning Outcome Online Classes

Education has reached a stage where the physical distance is no longer a barrier to teach or learn. With the pandemic minimizing the physical activities of people, many changes have happened over the past few months. All the major educational institutions have changed their methods and strategies to... Read More

Pilot for modernization of government schools in Srinagar launched

25 government Schools in J&K will be developed on modern lines to enhance the learning outcomes. The schools have been identified for up gradation in infrastructure and technology.... Read More

Tamil Nadu will not Employ Shift- Model for Schools that Reopen: Education Minister

The government of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has clarified its position on one specific modality of school opening. The education minister of the state stated that the schools that reopen will start all the classes simultaneously and will not be opening in shifts. Shift based opening ha... Read More

Exclusive Platforms For School Architecture And Design

Good architectural models and designs emerge out of creative visual thinking. When combined with practicality and cost-effectiveness, this visual thinking can do wonders in the field of school architecture and design.... Read More

Revisiting Bloom’s Taxonomy— An overview

We have talked about learning outcomes and educational goals and how to achieve them in several of our previous articles. In this article, I am going to discuss the theoretical device widely applied to direct pedagogy... Read More

PISA, A Programme Exclusively to Measure Cognitive Thinking in 15 year olds

Education has not only gained elevated standards in contemporary times but also has nuanced dimensions. Evidently, students as well as teachers are occupied in the process to make a shift from the traditional mode of learning.... Read More

Documents Needed While Applying for CBSE Affiliation

All applications shall be submitted online only. Following documents are required to be uploaded while making an application for CBSE affiliation online -... Read More

How Teachers can motivate the Unmotivated Students

While we have dealt with subjects like how the schools deal with ambition, the importance of architecture on learning outcomes and deleterious effects of corporal punishment on children... Read More

Seeing Lockdown in a new light—Self-study and Skill Building Resources

In the wake of COVID-19 lockdown, the schools across the country are closed and the examinations have been cancelled. State boards and the CBSE has announced that it will promote the students from class 1 to 8 without the examinations, academic calendars are being redesigned. The entire scenario see... Read More

TISS Joins Hands with Schools for Vocational Education

To encourage vocational education as per the new National Education Policy NEP 2020, Maharashtra’s School Education department is collaborating with Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).... Read More

CBSE Schools Gearing their class 12th Students up for Changed Exam Pattern

The CBSE has prompted the schools to start preparing their class 12 students anew for exams by introducing the new pattern for the board exam question paper.... Read More

AI in CBSE Schools to be Integrated with Multiple Subjects Across all Classes

It was introduced as an optional subject in schools. Taking the AI induction to the next step, the board now is planning to oversee its integration with other subjects across all classes. It has been reported that the teacher training to this end will start in the coming months.... Read More

Update on Board Examinations and Possibility of Cancellation

The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) have not yet announced the dates for the term 2 board examinations which are to be held in the months of March-April 2022. However, CBSE has announced that there will be no pattern ... Read More

How COVID-19 can change the traditional classroom system?

A big wave of educational shift has hit most of the countries with the arrival of COVID -19 turning all classrooms into digital rooms. Since the lockdown, all students have turned into a virtual world to seek learning without losing the flow of studies. The preferred educational trend during this ph... Read More

Assess the feasibility of the proposed institutional upgrade

<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wortundtat and AMG together have an indelible footprint in the landscape of social enterprise in India. The targets of both the organizations is to end the deprivation and break the which is ubiquitous vicious cycle of poverty.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Both the organizations, Wortundtat and AMG, have decades of experience in the arena of social service, institution building and community mobilization. Wortundtat as well as AMG are being received encouragingly in India because of their effective, efficient and selfless service to the ultra-poor.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The conditions of the unorganized labor working in the lime Kilns were deplorable and the children were hardest hit, and their futures became a casualty. That provided the backdrop to start a school at Indhiramma Colony, Piduguralla, Andhra Pradesh.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">With aid coming from Wortundtat, AMG India established the Pre-school, day care and primary school in the year 2015 which benefitted the children of the lime kiln workers by initiating them into education. The original intent was that after the completion of the school the children would avail secondary education in Chilakaluripet.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Since 2015 several hundred girls and boys have attended pre-school, day nursery and primary school.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">However, only a few children have made the transition after the primary school to the secondary boarding school at Chilakaluripet, primary reason cited being the reluctance of parents to send children far from home to reside in the boarding school at Chilakaluripet.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Referring to the situation, AMG, India has recently made a proposal addressing Wortundtat signifying the need for starting a secondary school constituting Grades 6th to 12th in Piduguralla school campus.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wortundtat has tasked School Serv to assess the feasibility of starting a secondary school (Grades 6 thru 12) and suggest a strategy for the way forward.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>... Read More