<p>“In a phased manner, the international curriculum would be introduced in place of the existing one in all the schools situated abroad,” CBSE chairperson Vineet Joshi told Deccan Herald.<br /><br />The CBSE I, with several new elements like research work, native art and aesthetics, social empowerment through work and action, will also be introduced in a phased manner in the schools in India after due consideration on a case-to-case basis. Such schools will have an option to have both streams.<br /><br />Referring to the new pedagogy in mathematics, Joshi said the focus of the curriculum at the primary level would be to facilitate numeral literacy through real time experiences, understanding shapes and development of spatial intelligence, logical thinking and reasoning and basic commercial mathematics.<br /><br />At the higher level, the focus will be to integrate mathematical skills with other disciplines of learning in order to see correlation between mathematical concepts with scientific approaches and contextualising the mathematical concepts to problem-solving situations. <br /><br />“Even the science curriculum differs from the existing curriculum at the corresponding level as the focus here would be to nurture scientific aptitude and thinking, through observation, analysis, reasoning and independent judgment,” he said.<br /><br />Learners will attempt to focus on the scientific concepts to real time situations to explain phenomena, order and chaos. Experimental learning will be facilitated both through hands-on tools and through project orientation. The focus will be to develop research orientation so that there is a total “de-emphasis” on rote learning in science.<br /><br />The pedagogy in social science will facilitate interactive methods like discussions and critical reviews of historical and social events so that learners appreciate cause and effect processes in social developments. In addition to world history, appropriate scope will be given to local history to sensitise the learners to appreciate the local, social and economic orders. The focus of geography will be to see global orders and variances in geographical patterns, growth processes, developmental patterns which impact native living practices, professions, economy and cultural thought processes.<br /><br />Due to the unique nature of the curriculum, the board has decided to provide training programmes to the teachers, shortly covering the philosophy, content, methodology and evaluation issues. In addition, the board will also provide teacher materials for guidance as self-learning modules and in the form of online teachers.<br />DH News Service</p>
<p>“In a phased manner, the international curriculum would be introduced in place of the existing one in all the schools situated abroad,” CBSE chairperson Vineet Joshi told Deccan Herald.<br /><br />The CBSE I, with several new elements like research work, native art and aesthetics, social empowerment through work and action, will also be introduced in a phased manner in the schools in India after due consideration on a case-to-case basis. Such schools will have an option to have both streams.<br /><br />Referring to the new pedagogy in mathematics, Joshi said the focus of the curriculum at the primary level would be to facilitate numeral literacy through real time experiences, understanding shapes and development of spatial intelligence, logical thinking and reasoning and basic commercial mathematics.<br /><br />At the higher level, the focus will be to integrate mathematical skills with other disciplines of learning in order to see correlation between mathematical concepts with scientific approaches and contextualising the mathematical concepts to problem-solving situations. <br /><br />“Even the science curriculum differs from the existing curriculum at the corresponding level as the focus here would be to nurture scientific aptitude and thinking, through observation, analysis, reasoning and independent judgment,” he said.<br /><br />Learners will attempt to focus on the scientific concepts to real time situations to explain phenomena, order and chaos. Experimental learning will be facilitated both through hands-on tools and through project orientation. The focus will be to develop research orientation so that there is a total “de-emphasis” on rote learning in science.<br /><br />The pedagogy in social science will facilitate interactive methods like discussions and critical reviews of historical and social events so that learners appreciate cause and effect processes in social developments. In addition to world history, appropriate scope will be given to local history to sensitise the learners to appreciate the local, social and economic orders. The focus of geography will be to see global orders and variances in geographical patterns, growth processes, developmental patterns which impact native living practices, professions, economy and cultural thought processes.<br /><br />Due to the unique nature of the curriculum, the board has decided to provide training programmes to the teachers, shortly covering the philosophy, content, methodology and evaluation issues. In addition, the board will also provide teacher materials for guidance as self-learning modules and in the form of online teachers.<br />DH News Service</p>
