Learning outcome to decide fate of new schools
Sunday - October 21, 2018 11:39 am ,
Category : WTN SPECIAL
WTN- In a bid to bolster the school education system, the Centre has come out with a new rule to affiliate new schools with CBSE. Now, schools which don’t have the required indices to show actual learning outcome in students, won’t be given affiliation.
The NOC which was earlier issued after inspections by both the respective state government and the central board, will now be issued by the state government on the basis of infrastructure, while CBSE will only check the learning outcome and academic mandates like number of teachers and their qualifications etc before issuing the affiliation.
The move will affect close to 21,000 CBSE schools in the country involving 2 crore students and 10 lakh teachers. Every year 4,000-5,000 schools apply to seek affiliation with CBSE and around 1,500 to 2,000 of them get the nod. To ease the hurdles and remove the bottlenecks for smoother and faster affiliation, the government has also announced to make the whole process online. This will also enhance transparency. CBSE has always tried to incorporate the latest education trends and practices by tweaking syllabuses and learning methods to suit modern needs and prepare students accordingly to make them future ready. But the changes have been too frequent and irregular that have not served much of their purpose.
CBSE, despite being the largest board and the most flexible when it comes to adopting new research outcomes and doing bold experimentations, have drawn flack off late due to its apparent lack of clarity and consistency with its reforms. What it launches today it rolls back tomorrow. This time too, what learning outcome parameters actually are and how they are to be calculated and assessed have not been clarified.
Whether CBSE comes up with the right way of assessment and whether the learning outcome tests really judge the ability and improvement of students is a matter to be seen. How far the tests and new patterns to be introduced stand the test of time and how long they are sustained is also to be seen. How teachers are trained and oriented towards imparting a learning outcome based education and how they change their evaluation and teaching practices is another grey area. No one knows how much time such training will need and when it will start. But in any case it is a move in the right direction.
The Centre’s concern and involvement to rejig the education pattern and make students more skilled and suited to industry needs is certainly going to leave a mark on CBSE too. There is a constant complaint that students coming out of our schools are ill-equipped in their social and life skills which set them behind their foreign counterparts. If the school education and its curriculum is improvised and redrawn in a way that makes our students more capable practically, this can be a major boost in the way we perceive and address things,
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The NOC which was earlier issued after inspections by both the respective state government and the central board, will now be issued by the state government on the basis of infrastructure, while CBSE will only check the learning outcome and academic mandates like number of teachers and their qualifications etc before issuing the affiliation.
The move will affect close to 21,000 CBSE schools in the country involving 2 crore students and 10 lakh teachers. Every year 4,000-5,000 schools apply to seek affiliation with CBSE and around 1,500 to 2,000 of them get the nod. To ease the hurdles and remove the bottlenecks for smoother and faster affiliation, the government has also announced to make the whole process online. This will also enhance transparency. CBSE has always tried to incorporate the latest education trends and practices by tweaking syllabuses and learning methods to suit modern needs and prepare students accordingly to make them future ready. But the changes have been too frequent and irregular that have not served much of their purpose.
CBSE, despite being the largest board and the most flexible when it comes to adopting new research outcomes and doing bold experimentations, have drawn flack off late due to its apparent lack of clarity and consistency with its reforms. What it launches today it rolls back tomorrow. This time too, what learning outcome parameters actually are and how they are to be calculated and assessed have not been clarified.
Whether CBSE comes up with the right way of assessment and whether the learning outcome tests really judge the ability and improvement of students is a matter to be seen. How far the tests and new patterns to be introduced stand the test of time and how long they are sustained is also to be seen. How teachers are trained and oriented towards imparting a learning outcome based education and how they change their evaluation and teaching practices is another grey area. No one knows how much time such training will need and when it will start. But in any case it is a move in the right direction.
The Centre’s concern and involvement to rejig the education pattern and make students more skilled and suited to industry needs is certainly going to leave a mark on CBSE too. There is a constant complaint that students coming out of our schools are ill-equipped in their social and life skills which set them behind their foreign counterparts. If the school education and its curriculum is improvised and redrawn in a way that makes our students more capable practically, this can be a major boost in the way we perceive and address things,
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