The paper on value education also says that there should be ‘Service Day’ and ‘Experience Day’ for school children in Karnataka
The paper on value education also says that there should be ‘Service Day’ and ‘Experience Day’ for school children in Karnataka
The position paper on value education recommends ten bag-less days in a year for students of classes VI to VIII by experts. In addition, a ‘Service Day’ and an ‘Experience Day’ have also been recommended for Class VI, in which children visit places where social workers are helping the needy.
As part of the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP)-2020 in the State, 26 focus groups have been formed to write status papers which will provide direction to the State Curriculum Framework.
The 10-member value education focus group is part of five, cross-cutting themes applied to 12 curriculum themes.
The paper says that during bag-less days, students will intern with local business experts such as carpenters, gardeners, potters, artists and others.
For the ‘Service Day’, a variety of activities can be planned, such as cleaning the school, maintaining the school garden, decorating the school premises, cleaning an area, decorating public places, helping the needy in the area , teach in the slums, and others, the paper says.
In addition, a day can be used as an ‘experience day’, where children visit places of care where social workers are helping those in need, such as an orphanage, an old age home, a school for the blind. , and others.
‘Experience Day’ can also be used to give experience of various local traditions and cultural aspects, such as a puppet show, a visit to a heritage site of the locality, a Janpad Kendra, and so on, it says.
school campus
The DSERT of Kolar district has submitted the status sheet on the school premises. The school campus concept aims to break the separation of schools and share instructional functions, material facilities. In addition, it also provides cooperative efforts for improvement and facilitates in-service training.
Altogether, 86,769 schools are functional, of which 63,707 are at primary, 17,511 at secondary and 5,551 at higher secondary level. About 82.26% of lower primary schools are managed by the government. The total participation of private management in school education (up to class X) is 26.5%.
The paper also says that bringing basic learners like Nursery, LKG, UKG, and Anganwadi under the school premises is a major challenge. “Bringing the learners to the feeder school is a challenge in all aspects because of their age. Regular change of teachers can affect their learning. There are areas where families largely live apart and are separated into separate localities. In some areas such as the Malnad region, the coastal region in South Canara and the Western Ghats, schools are rarely located. The provision of transport facilities requires special attention both in terms of expenditure and time,” it says.
The paper says that selected school campuses can be used for testing and evaluation of new textbooks, teachers, guides and teaching aids. “Some facilities and equipment may be provided for successfully instructing non-equipped primary schools. The campus can be used as a unit to introduce better methods of evaluation and to regulate the promotion of children from class to classroom or from one level of the school to another. Better library and laboratory facilities can be provided to primary schools,” it says.