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New Delhi : A two-day Conclave on “School Education in 21st Century” organised by Ministry of Education as part of Shikshak Parv 2020 virtually commenced on September 10, 2020. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing the Conclave under the National Education Policy- 2020 (NEP-2020) at 11 am on September 11, 2020, through video conferencing. Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ and Minister of State for Education Sanjay Dhotre will also be present on the occasion.
Shikshak Parv is being celebrated from September 8 to September 25, 2020 to felicitate the Teachers and to take New Education Policy 2020 forward. Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, Anita Karwal, inaugurated the Conclave on September 10. The discussions were held in two technical sessions on six subjects of New Education Policy 2020. The Principal and Teacher practitioners discussed how they have already implemented certain themes of the NEP in creative ways.
The first technical session started with a discussion on the subject of ‘Foundational Literacy and Numeracy’ from the perspective of practitioner’s from 10 am on September 10. iRakesh Gupta, IAS, Nodal Officer-Saksham Haryana; Satinder Kumar Sorat, Principal, Govt. Sr. Secondary School, Faridabad, Haryana, and Sarvesh Kumar, Principal, Basti, UP, (Winner of National Awards for Teachers 2018) were the key speakers in the session.
The discussion started with opening remarks of Rakesh Gupta emphasising the importance of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy also stressed on in NEP: 2020. He summarised the experiences of both the states, UP and Haryana, and urged to make whole hearted efforts to make children creative, confident and equipped to face the challenges of the 21st century.
Sorat informed that Saksham Haryana is an initiative by the Government of Haryana to improve the learning levels of Haryana Government school students. He emphasised the need of competency based learning instead of rote learning. He also spoke about the need of learning enhancement programmes and third party assessment of foundational skills, according to a PIB release.
Sarvesh Kumar informed about Mission Prerna, which is the flagship programme of the Uttar Pradesh government to improve the quality of education in 1.6 lakh schools under the Basic Shiksha Department across the state.Under initiatives for pedagogy, ‘PrernaSoochi’, a list of all learning outcomes mapped with competencies across grades 1-5 for Hindi and Maths, has been created to provide clarity to teachers on outcomes associated with curriculum in each grade.