The vision of NEP 2020 needs to get disseminated from the top to all stakeholders
Changing trends are not created by any person or established by any group. We have grown into it. There are a number of practices in the educational front too that wither away when new ones are adopted.
The National Education Policy 2020 is just a document which gives a structure to facilitate schools and colleges to align themselves to these changes in an organised and uniform manner. The moot question is: “Are our teachers ready for the NEP implementation”?
Whatever may be the changes, teachers will gear up to handle them. How the teaching community rose to the occasion during the pandemic is proof enough. Be it art integration or mother tongue teaching or intra-disciplinary approach!! The challenge is not in the implementation of various aspects of NEP 2020. The challenge is not ‘how and what’ but it lies in understanding the ‘why’. The vision behind the NEP should be communicated clearly and disseminated from the top to all stakeholders.
Shanti Krishnamurthy
Director Academics &
Administration,
Chinmaya International
Residential School, Coimbatore
School leaders need to first ensure the vision behind the new policy is communicated and shared with the teachers who are adapting the new changes in the classrooms.
If art integration is suggested in the NEP, teachers need to understand that it is only to ensure the teaching learning process embraces the different abilities in children. It should transform the child which is the very purpose of education.
The main challenge in NEP implementation is the communication of the vision behind NEP to all the stakeholders. Yet another area where the challenge lies is in designing the assessments. Remembering and understanding are the lowest levels of learning according to Benjamin Samuel Bloom (February 21, 1913 – September 13, 1999) an American educational psychologist.
We need to assess the higher levels of application, analysing, evaluating & creating skills of children. Content being by and large the same, NEP has outlined the new methods to make an impact on the learning of Children. Remembering and understanding the content are like the leaves of a plant and over a period of time will get withered out. Remembering or understanding the content does not make a long-lasting impact on the child.
Teachers aim at the cognitive domain of the learner. We need to shift the focus to the affective domain where the content needs to get processed. “Don’t Teach Children; Touch the lives of Children” says, Pujya Swami Chinmayananda.
