The document provides comprehensive guidelines for the Bridge Month Programme for Grade 6 students, aiming to facilitate a smooth transition to the new curriculum as per the National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF-SE) 2023 and the National Education Policy 2020. The programme emphasizes joyful, fun-based, and discovery-based learning, free from curriculum load, to align students and teachers with the new pedagogical approaches outlined in NCF-SE 2023 before the formal study of the new textbooks. It highlights the shift from content to competencies, assessment methods, and the pedagogical reforms suggested in NEP 2020. The curriculum includes subjects such as Hindi, English, Sanskrit, Urdu, Social Science, Science, Mathematics, Vocational Education, Art Education, and Physical Education & Well-being.
The document outlines subject-specific activities and assessments tailored to each subject area, emphasizing interactive and playful learning activities to engage students and teachers in the new approach to learning. It also stresses the importance of formal and explicit assessments, focusing on specific ways of reasoning within each form of understanding and not primarily on the recall of facts. The teaching-learning process is designed to allow for group work and peer interactions, with subject-specific classrooms equipped with appropriate Teaching-Learning Materials (TLM) and other resources.
Furthermore, the document encourages teachers to take ownership of implementing the culturally rooted and experience-based education perspective outlined in NEP 2020, emphasizing the importance of collaborative and teamwork efforts to provide all children with the highest quality education. It also highlights the engagement with theoretical concepts and the introduction of theories and conceptual frameworks specific to each form of understanding, emphasizing a balance of direct instruction and opportunities for exploration and inquiry.
In summary, the document emphasizes the importance of the bridge-month programme in preparing students and teachers for the new curriculum, focusing on a shift towards competency-based learning, interactive teaching methods, and a more holistic and culturally rooted educational experience for Grade 6 students.
Key quotes:
- “This bridge-month programme is the first step for the middle stage. Together, we can convey to the entire education fraternity that collaborative and teamwork will bring satisfaction and lead to success in providing all children with the highest quality education.” – Dinesh Prasad Saklani, Director National Council of Educational Research and Training
- “The bridge-month programme is vital for successfully ushering our teachers and students into the new phase of education advocated by NEP 2020 and embodied in NCF-SE 2023.” – NCERT
- “This phase will be joyful, fun-based, contextual, interesting, innovative, discovery-based, inquiry-based, and rooted in toys and games, leading students to learn from their own experiences.” – NCERT