Importantly, in a grassroots approach, District Level Counseling (DLCs) will shape the foundation of the four NCFs – school education, early childhood care and education, teacher education and adult education.
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has set August 2022 as the deadline for finalizing the school curriculum, after which the development of textbooks is to begin.
In what is being planned as one of the biggest consultation processes, NCERT has set a deadline for states to complete the DLC as well as mobile application surveys within four weeks from now, followed by 25 Theme-based status papers have been developed. States and Union Territories by February 2022.
The deadline for the State Curriculum Framework (SCF) is April 2022, which will be followed by status papers of national focus groups in May 2022. After a two-day orientation program for State/UT representatives on Saturday and Monday, the Council activated the TECH platform on which districts and States/UTs would be required to upload their 25 focus group papers as well as SCF.
All four NCFs are being prepared. What makes these four courses, which comprise the school curriculum to rework after 16 years, is the unique bottom-up approach, with the NCF emerging from the SCF, which in turn leads to the District Level Counseling (DLC) of various ) will be based on. stakeholders, and the entire process will be paperless. The NCFs will be based on 25 themes drawn from the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, with 12 focus groups directly related to curriculum and pedagogy, five on cross-cutting thesis and eight on other important areas of the policy.
As per information received by TOI, for school education, 17 new academic areas have been identified, in addition to the areas mentioned earlier, which include flexibility in choice of subjects in secondary classes, core imperatives of curriculum and reduction in multilingualism. Is.
Sharing the roadmap with the nodal officers in the orientation programme, the NCERT said that the States/UTs will conduct DLCs covering all the districts, where 60 participants will be consulted offline and 80 online. Participants will include teachers, teacher educators, parents, students, community members, non-literates and educational administrators. Four reports will be generated from each DLC that will provide input for the focus groups. Thereafter, NCERT will also conduct two to three DLCs in each State/UT.
In addition to the DLC, the States/UTs should conduct a mobile app survey with a minimum of 500 to a maximum of 6,000 community members depending on the density of the population. The survey comprises 100 questions related to the implementation of NEP 2020 and is divided into four areas – 40 questions in school education and 20 questions each for early childhood care and education, teacher education and adult education.
Introducing the technical platform to the nodal officers of various States/UTs, NCERT Director Sridhar Srivastava said, “For the first time this national curriculum framework has been envisaged on the basis of a very extensive consultation process and for the first time in the country, The states have been on board from the very beginning in the process. The comprehensive consultation includes consultations at the state level and district level on various platforms like mobile app survey etc. The main objective of this consultation is that we want to be enriched by the experience and local tastes, views of the States and Union Territories. NEP 2020.”
The revision of NCF is synced with NEP 2020, which has also proposed examination reforms such as uniform assessment and evaluation system under the proposed National Assessment Centre.
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