Don Bosco School Alaknanda, New Delhi, organised a one day CBSE Capacity Building Program on the topic ‘National Education Policy 2020 And 21st Century Skills’ held on September 14, 2023, from 8.45 am -5.00pm [8 Hours]. The workshop was attended by 59 teachers of the same school. Our esteemed Resource Persons were Dr. Santosh Vyas, Principal, Sadhu Vaswani International School and Ms Bhavna Arora, Darshan Academy, Delhi. The moderator of the program was Mr Rajesh Sebastian, PGT Physics, Academics Coordinator Senior School.
1. Introduction:
“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow”. John Dewey
The webinar started with a short introduction and felicitation of Resource persons by our Principal and Rector Reverend Fr.Hemlet Kujur and then was carried forward by Dr.Santosh Vyas. Dr Vyas took up a short icebreaking session to know the participants, their name, subject they teach and their quality as a teacher alongside noted down the points as shared by participants, related to NEP2020. Ma’am focused on Bloom’s Taxonomy, revised Taxonomy, Gandhiji’s Buniyadi Taleem, National Curriculum Framwork 2005, NCF Foundational stage, Introduction of Contemporary
Subjects, CUET and other related topics. Ms Bhavna Arora continued the session emphasising on 21st Century Skills, Pedagogies, Literacies, Skills , Competency Based Teachings, Inclusive Education with interactive, collaborative, effective and interesting activities.
2. Event Detail/Narration of the Event: The first session began with the history of the rich heritage of our ancient Indian knowledge that laid the foundation of the education polic The five guiding principles of Gandhiji’s Bunyadi Taleem, National policy of Education 1986-Access and Equity, NCF
2005, The Right to Education Act 2009, Bloom’s taxonomy, the amended version of it from evaluating to creating. The focus of academics has completely changed over the years from rote learning to conceptual understanding. Hence, Teachers need to be a guide by their side and not a sage on the stage. The discussion continued after the tea break at 10.30, Every child has the right to education and according to Sustainable goal of the 2030 agenda they must get quality education. Focused on the Foundational Stage of the NCF 2020 on, how to restructure the pedagogy , activities and skills to be integrated in the subjects. Talked about the introduction of the contemporary subjects, skill subjects, Bagless Day, to encourage multilingualism, multidisciplinary approach, Experiential learning, take Class to community and community to class if required, collaborative study and life skill and values to inculcate through every lesson, every subject and activities. Ma’am concluded with several examples of activities after which all went for the lunch at 1.30PM.
The Second session was taken up by Ms Bhavna Arora on 21st century Skills. Began with short introduction and recap of the first session, explained what are 21st century skills, the activities proposed by CBSE (13 activities) –Art integration, Heritage Quiz, Art exhibition, Aryabhatta Ganit Challenge, discussed 21st century Pedagogies(12 pedagogies)-Blended Learning, Experiential Learning, Project based Learningand others. 21st century literacies(10 in no.)-Affinity groups, Podcasts, youtube, ICT, E-Portfolio.Learning Skills (4C’s) which include Critical thinking; Creativity,
Collaboration; Communication,Life skills,Competancy based Teaching strategies and many More, with video of activities conducted in her school by students.
Activities conducted:
- Domini Card Activity- Skills developed-Critical Thinking, Effective Communication
- Hot Seat-A kind of press conference- Skills developed-Communication, Creativity, Collaboration
- AMP Box-For active mental preparation, Choice, creativity of presentation
- Fish Bowl Discussion.
Reflection/Insight: The one day workshop was worth attending, it was very informative,
engaging, enriching and full of energy. In this webinar, we learned a lot more about management of Teaching-learning. As educators we become more knowledgeable, aware about the different platforms, skills pedagogies we can use in delivering education even with a little resource. This webinar empowered educators on how to cope with the new normal setting of education. Though it is very challenging and needs extra effort to achieve its goal, we as educators should contribute on how to effectively deliver education to our learners through these skills.
We are very thankful to be participant of this webinar and congratulate CBSE and both of our Resource Person for sharing their valuable inputs and making this workshop an informative and enriching session.
Manasi Dutta
TGT Social Science