Open Text Based Assessment System in CBSE Schools For 9th & 11th Classes

CBSE schools in the city have welcomed the board’s new Open Text Based Assessment (OTBA) system, which was introduced this academic year.

The CBSE introduced the OTBA system for Class 9 and Class 11 students (three subjects Geography, Economic and Biology) from the current academic year, to incorporate analytical and theoretical skills, moving away from memorisation.

As per the new system, textual material may be in the form of an article, a case study, a diagram, a concept/ mind map, a picture or a cartoon, problem/situation based on the concepts taught to be students during second term. It will have questions of higher order thinking skills and some of which may be subjective, creative and open-ended.

Navodaya Vidyalaya Samti

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Navodaya Vidyalaya Samti

Perspective Academic Plan 2013-14

The uniqueness of Navodaya Vidyalayas has assured that they have been enjoying this strong brand equity over a period of time due to the consistent and top performance in CBSE. Navodaya Vidyalayas are well recognized as focal points of learning and all round development. The currency of the Navodaya Brand, derived from the academic performance, and success of the Alumni, has ensured that NAVODAYAS are one of the foremost and successful institutions in the country. The shortcoming faced by many Govt. Institutions, that they are almost unheard of, is no longer relevant in the context of Navodayas. Brand equity is nothing but the association made by people when they hear the name ‘Navodaya’ or ‘JNV’. Today the Navodaya Brand enjoys an unprecedented level of acknowledgement from the society in the field of secondary and higher secondary education. The teachers and students associated with the Navodaya Brand have been successful in creating significant and noticeable changes in the quality of human lives in the Indian Society. Thus the Navodaya Brand has become synonymous with exemplary education and all round development. However, to ensure continued brand equity, we need to move with the times and keep our skills updated with the modern innovations and latest developments in the field of imparting modern quality education.

Steps to establish/Sustain Brand Equity:

1. Performance speaks – JNV must be much better than the rest in all areas.

2. Uphold values – Inculcate values through values embedded education.

3. Develop a tradition of excellence in all areas.

4. The top brands always are the best –be the best in your field

5. Pursue high ideals and standards

6. Team work and smart work always lead to better productivity.

7. Everyone with similar taste would try to emulate, thus be a pace setter.

8. Reaching the top is easier than staying there. Continue efforts with zeal and vigour  to stay at the top.

9. Consistent improvement and innovation at every step. In other words, aspire for the best all the time

10. Common identity, however, with special individuality.

Institutional Planning:

Institutional Plan is a planned document prepared before the commencement of a new academic session by every Vidyalaya to realize the goals of organization keeping in view of objectives, felt needs, local resources available and likely to be available, constraints, previous years’ feedback from the stake holders and priorities of JNVs. As it is a roadmap to the institution all stakeholders such as teachers, parents, students, local community members etc are to be involved in its preparation. It allows a comprehensive and long term perspective based on a clear assessment and understanding of the JNV activities. Areas like Academics, Administration, Developing Physical Facilities, Community Linkage, Pace Setting Activities, Campus Beautification etc should find due place in it. It can be used as a document for the decentralization of administration through formation of various committees for ensuring participatory management. The process of framing the institutional plan by the concerned committee at Vidyalaya level should be initiated well in advance and kept ready for the implementation at least one week prior to the beginning of the new academic session 2013-14. A copy of it should be placed in Vidyalaya library and Principal’s table for day to day reference. Another copy of the same should be sent to the Deputy Commissioner and concerned Asstt. Commissioner and Cluster I/C before 1st of April 2013. A good Institutional Plan properly implemented, no doubt, creates a favourable setting in the school which in turn, ensures efficiency in operation, improved instruction, better standards of achievement, a sense of joy and achievement among stakeholders and a better image of the school.

School Assembly:

Morning Assembly is the time when the entire school community assembles at an appropriate place to affirm the school’s identity and aspirations. The school assembly is the best forum to inspire and motivate students. It serves as a platform to develop self confidence, acquiring knowledge and information, creativity and aesthetic sense among students. We must ensure that monotony does not set in.

It is mandatory on the part of the Principals, Vice Principals, all the teachers and students to attend the morning assembly on time. HMs/AHMs are to ensure the participation of all their house students in the morning assembly activities by turn.

Assembly Activities :

School Calendar:

School calendar plans for more productive students and therefore greater learning. Such a schedule sets the stage for teachers to communicate to students exactly what is expected of them and allows the teacher to identify behaviors that must be directly taught to one or more students, which, in turn, help them to develop greater student autonomy, responsibility, and self-control. In this connection, the School calendar is the most important document and hence the Vidyalayas have to prepare an effective working calendar for the year 2013-14, well before the beginning of the academic session by incorporating the areas such as Scholastic, Co-Scholastic, along with important days / functions / activities etc.,

Vidyalaya Time Table And Allotment of Periods:

The following points are to be taken care while preparing the time table :-

1. The services of Art Teacher, SUPW Teacher, Music Teacher, Librarian, and teachers of Language-III are to be taken for running supervised study periods in the afternoon.
2. The concerned subject teachers only are to be put on duty for remedial teaching.
3. All staff members including PETs will be put on duty during supervised study as per the requirement on rotation basis. The daily routine details of total no. of periods to be given to the teachers & no. of periods to be allotted to each subject/ class wise is given as under:

Subject Wise Class Wise Allotment of Periods :

(40 Minutes Duration)
 

It appears you had difficulty understanding my daughter, and being her responsible father, who may clearly see her flaws and weaknesses, I am trying to reply to some of the direct and indirect questions you posed to my daughter during the last one year. Before I begin, I would like to remind you that maybe my child is having some problems related to carelessness and she may be less focused compared with your favourite children, but each child is unique and has their own aptitude to bring to the world. Our duty is to help the child bring out those talents and encourage them to develop their own individuality. All the time we don't have to agree with them but making them understand the same with a little care and support may give them more confidence to explore ideas on their own.

You had a problem why my daughter laughs a lot. Please permit me to mention here that now her unfortunate father is searching for her lost smile for the last few months. I am sorry for the inconvenience (which you may have considered trouble), if any, you had because of my daughter, but it should be understood how much she means to me. I taught her to laugh when she is happy, I taught her to laugh when she is sad, I taught her to laugh when things do not happen as she wanted and I taught her to laugh at herself every time she made a mistake.

Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations

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Engineering Watch Fellowships to be Conferred Upon 1000 Students

Schools having Maths-Science stream are requested to nominate 5 best students from their schools to compete for the Engineering Watch Scholarships - 2014.

Engineering Watch, India's most prestigious magazine dedicated to engineering community, has instituted Engineering Watch Fellowships which would be conferred upon 1000 Students from across the country who would be taking up Engineering Education in the year 2014.

The academic and other co-curricular accomplishments of these Engineering Students would be duly mentored & monitored by Industry Experts and Senior Academics during the four years of their engineering so that they can fine tune their studies and thereby shape up their careers in the right direction. These Engineering Watch Fellows would thereby become role models for the students of their batch.

The Engineering Watch Fellows would constitute an elite coterie of role model engineering students who would be mentored by a privileged Mentorship Board  comprising of eminent Academicians and Professionals through their entire academic life spanning 4 years of engineering. Their transcripts and other co-curricular activities would be duly monitored on a periodic basis.

They would also constitute a core selected sample of Engineering Students whose opinions, performances, challenges would help the unfurling of various policies and programmes for augmenting quality of Engineering Education in the country. They would also be given innumerable internship, excursion and sojourn opportunities to various industrial & engineering installations.

These fellows would also be eligible for special Tuition Waiver Schemes offered by various colleges; for scholarship schemes offered by various corporate foundations and community based endowments and a host of other benefits which would be communicated to them from time to time.

(Result) Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) , Feb -2014

The CTET-FEB 2014 Examination was conducted on 16.02.2014 (Sunday) throughout the country and abroad in which approx. 8.26 lakh candidates were registered for either Paper-I or/and Paper-II.

The Board, as a step towards complete transparency, had displayed the images of the OMR Answer Sheets of all the candidates who had appeared in the CTET-FEB 2014 Examination on its website. Thereafter the Answer Key of all the sets of Question Paper, were uploaded on the CTET website and representations were sought from the candidates upto 19.03.2014 for CBSE’s consideration, in case of any discrepancy relating to question/incorrect answer keys.