Bringing India 's National Curriculum Framework (2005) to Life : British Council India

Session

Title:	Bringing India 's National Curriculum Framework (2005) to Life
Date and Time:	Thursday 20 November 2009 10.00-11.00 IST (GMT + 5.5 hours)

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Abstract

‘Language learning is essentially a matter of acquiring the important skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in an integrated manner and harnessing these skills to the performance of formal as well as informal communication tasks.’ NCF (2005)

The Delhi Teacher Development Cascade Programme is the result of a three-way partnership between the Directorate of Education (DoE), Government of NCT of Delhi, State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) and the British Council. The programme aims to improve teacher’s confidence in using English and child-centred methodology so as to achieve the effective implementation of the objectives of National Curriculum Framework (2005) in government schools of Delhi.

Since the project started in July 2008, we have achieved the following:

A strong resource pool of 388 master trainers from DoE trained
10 day training module designed which includes teacher and master trainer versions
89 Principals/ HoS of DoE oriented as mentors
DoE teachers filmed teaching students in DoE classrooms and a series of 10 films edited and embedded in training modules
2 day refresher training for all master trainers
3,400 teachers of DoE trained by master trainers

In this session, a number of mentors, master trainers and teachers will share innovations that have helped them to overcome specific challenges during the implementation of the programme and have enabled them to provide an input rich and interactive learning environment for their students.

Watch some of the Films

Speakers

Rakesh Mohan

Rakesh Mohan, IAS, is the Principal Secretary (Education) in the Government of NCT of Delhi. He has worked in different capacities in the urban infrastructure sector in State Governments of Goa, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Delhi and the Government of India. Mr. Mohan has M.Sc. (Physics) from Delhi University, M.S. from London School of Commerce and M.S (Electrical Engineering) from Ohio State University, USA as a Rotary International Scholar.

Pawan Sudhir

Pawan Sudhir is currently a professor in the Department of Arts and Aesthetics at National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). Prior to this, she served at SCERT, Government of NCT of Delhi, for over 20 years in different capacities as Teacher Educator, Controller of Examinations and, most recently, as Secretary. During her stint at SCERT, Pawan was the Nodal Officer for Delhi Teacher Development Programme, a partnership project with the British Council, and Project Director of YUVA, School Life-Skills Programme. She is also a member of various professional associations with a number of publications and research papers in the area of teacher education to her credit.