Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has released the NCERT eight-week Alternative Academic Calendar- AAC for the secondary stage.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr Pokhriyal said that the Calendar provides guidelines to teachers on the use of various technological tools and social media tools available for imparting education in interesting ways, which can be used by learner, parents and teachers even at home.
He said, however, it has taken into account, the varying levels of access to such tools like Mobile phone, Radio, Television, SMS and various social media.
The Minister also highlighted that many of us may not have internet facility in the mobile phone, or may not be able to use different social media tools, the calendar guides teachers to further help parents and students through SMS on mobile phones or through voice call.
He said, parents are expected to help elementary stage students to implement this Calendar.
The calendar contains week-wise plan consisting of interesting and challenging activities, with reference to theme and chapter taken from syllabus or textbook.
It maps the themes with the learning outcomes and its purpose is to facilitate teachers and parents to assess the progress in the learning of children and also to go beyond textbooks.
The activities given in the calendar focus on learning outcomes and can thus be achieved through any resource including the textbooks children are using in their state.
It also covers experiential learning activities such as Arts Education, Physical Exercises, yoga and pre-vocational skills.
Alternative Academic Calendar for four weeks and next eight weeks for primary and upper primary stages had already been released.
AAC for secondary and higher secondary stages for four week had also been released earlier.
