India and the world are facing an enormous crisis due to COVID-19. India as a country is under lockdown, while most of the cities and states in the world are under lockdown too. Medical care professionals, security personnel and people related to delivering essential services are working round the clock to tide over the crisis. Schools, Colleges and Universities have been closed. Students are confined to their homes, and so are teachers and parents. Teacher educators, teachers and parents need to find ways to deal with this unprecedented situation arising out of the lockdown in order to engage students meaningfully through educational activities at home. While we are putting in all efforts to flatten the epidemic curve, learning can continue at home too, and the learning curve of children must continue to move upwards.
In case Internet is not available at a student’s home, teachers can explain to the students/parents about each activity over the phone, through SMS and voice recorded messages. Teachers must continuously ensure that the activity has been conducted, through a follow-up later.
CBSE has developed a 4-week calendar for students of all classes. It contains references to textbooks, chapters, themes, e-resources, some web links, etc., for teachers, to be referred to if they want to design contextual activities for children. These are also helpful for parents to understand the activities they are going to conduct with their children.
This Calendar contains class-wise and subject-wise activities in tabular forms. However, the material that the teacher will refer to may be class specific and different. It is up to the teachers and students to choose the activity to be undertaken, as per their convenience and tools available.
For Class 9 calendar click here
For Class 10 calendar click here
General Guidelines for Implementing Weekly Plan (for four weeks)
for the Learning of Students
• Secondary Stage learners are adolescent learners. They usually prefer learning by themselves. They may require less support from their parents therefore, teachers are first advised to call up the parents to apprise them about the conduct of the suggested activities. Later the teachers may directly contact the students for further interventions.
• In this time of crisis, we are expected to remain at home (and so is the case with our learners) for the welfare of self and society. We do not want their learning to be adversely affected due to the loss of academic days. For this we need to adapt to the home learning model. Even before the learners are exposed to content learning, we need to equip them with the skill of acquiring knowledge of the content through various activities which they can do on their own.
What if Internet is not available?
In case Internet is not available at a student’s home, teachers can explain to the students/parents about each activity over the phone, through SMS and voice recorded messages. Teachers must continuously ensure that the activity has been conducted, through a follow-up later.
If Internet is available, how to use it?
- In case of availability of Internet and active WhatsApp, Facebook, Google Hangout, Google Mail, telegram, the teacher can forward the guidelines to parents or even students with a brief explanation.
- Teachers should stress the point that learners should not in any way be forced to do the activities. Rather, parents should support learners creating a friendly atmosphere.
- Chapter wise e-content is available on the e-pathshala, NROER and DIKSHA portal of Government of India; these may be made use of.
SUBJECT-WISE WEEKLY ACADEMIC CALENDAR
CBSE has developed a 4-week calendar for students of all classes. It contains references to textbooks, chapters, themes, e-resources, some web links, etc., for teachers, to be referred to if they want to design contextual activities for children. These are also helpful for parents to understand the activities they are going to conduct with their children.
This Calendar contains class-wise and subject-wise activities in tabular forms. However, the material that the teacher will refer to may be class specific and different. It is up to the teachers and students to choose the activity to be undertaken, as per their convenience and tools available.
For Class 9 calendar click here
For Class 10 calendar click here
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