<p class="title">Songs, music, drama, role play, drawing, painting and various other art forms will soon be used in classrooms for teaching to make learning a joyful experience for children studying in elementary schools.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Setting the stage for a nation-wide effort to “re-orient” the existing school education system, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has formulated comprehensive guidelines and a framework for the integration of art in pedagogy to create an atmosphere of “experiential and joyful learning” in the classrooms.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They also provide a list of tools and techniques for the teachers to assess the students progress under the new pedagogy.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Art Integrated Learning (AIL) is a teaching-learning model which is based on learning ‘through the arts’ and ‘with the arts’. It is a process where art becomes the medium of teaching-learning, a key to understanding concepts within any subject of the curriculum,” the NCERT noted in its 84-page guideline.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The council suggests that while all the education at this pre-primary stage should<br />be through arts like drawing, painting, clay modelling, singing, actions or movements, 90% of the curriculum at this stage must be art-oriented.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“While planning activities for this stage, focus should be on using locally available, age-appropriate materials such as pebbles, seeds and beads, leaves, flowers, sand, clay, seashells, feathers, wood sticks, tree barks, natural colors, etc” the guidelines suggest.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At the primary stage, arts should be integrated with all the subjects and used in schools as an approach for teaching and learning of different concepts.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“The art-integration in classes 1-3 and 4-5 should be 80 and 70 % respectively,” the guidelines state. At the upper primary stage, emphasis should be laid on the use of students’ own imagination and the development of their creative expressions.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Prior to its implementation as a pedagogical tool, the art integrated learning framework has been “field-tested” at different schools across the country for its viability and efficacy in making the teaching-learning process meaningful and joyful, it added.</p>
<p class="title">Songs, music, drama, role play, drawing, painting and various other art forms will soon be used in classrooms for teaching to make learning a joyful experience for children studying in elementary schools.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Setting the stage for a nation-wide effort to “re-orient” the existing school education system, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has formulated comprehensive guidelines and a framework for the integration of art in pedagogy to create an atmosphere of “experiential and joyful learning” in the classrooms.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They also provide a list of tools and techniques for the teachers to assess the students progress under the new pedagogy.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Art Integrated Learning (AIL) is a teaching-learning model which is based on learning ‘through the arts’ and ‘with the arts’. It is a process where art becomes the medium of teaching-learning, a key to understanding concepts within any subject of the curriculum,” the NCERT noted in its 84-page guideline.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The council suggests that while all the education at this pre-primary stage should<br />be through arts like drawing, painting, clay modelling, singing, actions or movements, 90% of the curriculum at this stage must be art-oriented.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“While planning activities for this stage, focus should be on using locally available, age-appropriate materials such as pebbles, seeds and beads, leaves, flowers, sand, clay, seashells, feathers, wood sticks, tree barks, natural colors, etc” the guidelines suggest.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At the primary stage, arts should be integrated with all the subjects and used in schools as an approach for teaching and learning of different concepts.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“The art-integration in classes 1-3 and 4-5 should be 80 and 70 % respectively,” the guidelines state. At the upper primary stage, emphasis should be laid on the use of students’ own imagination and the development of their creative expressions.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Prior to its implementation as a pedagogical tool, the art integrated learning framework has been “field-tested” at different schools across the country for its viability and efficacy in making the teaching-learning process meaningful and joyful, it added.</p>
