Early Childhood Care & Education in Odisha Investing in Young Children for their all round holistic development

At a glance Reaching out to Lakhs no. of beneficiaries Children (below 6 months) Lakhs (7.99%) Children (6 months to 3 years) Lakhs (38.22%) Children (3 years to 6 years) Lakhs (38.79%) Pregnant & Lactating Women Lakhs (15.01%)

Why Focus on Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE)?  Early childhood, care and education critical for school preparedness, retention and improved learning in subsequent grades  Right to Education Act recommends ECCE by ‘appropriate Government’for 3-6 year age group  Integrated service delivery of pre-school - convergence with elementary education  The ECCE Policy 2013

Components Activities designed to develop - Physical-Motor Development Cognitive/Intellectual Development Language Development Socio-Emotional Development Developing Creativity and Aesthetics Developing Healthy Attitude and Interest in Learning Intellectual Socio- emotional/ Adjustment Language Health habits Curiosity/ Creativity Physical- motor

Launching of ECCE Curriculum “Nua Arunima” The revised package was launched on 29 th April 2013 Rolled out across the state – all AWCs /Projects/ Districts

Nua Arunima Curriculum framework Result of extensive consultations, workshops & vetting of materials by experts  Developed standardized CURRICULLUM FRAMEWORK  Lays down QUALITY STANDARDS  Provision for ADEQUATE and APPROPRIATE play material.  Child DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONE monitoring to be conducted in every 3 rd, 6 th, 9 th and 12th month.  Provision for comprehensive childcare support, infrastructure and services.  Develop capacity and resources of the ICDS functionaries  Raise awareness and create common understanding.  Recognize diversity of context, develop and promote culturally appropriate strategies.

Curriculum focus More child-centered; Ensured 5 hours of pre school activity in the center. Thematic activities: ◦Me, my family and community ◦Immediate environment ◦Nature and weather ◦Health and safety Building a bridge between home and center Free conversation, action songs, storytelling, play and construction activities and nature walks Emphasis on pre-reading, pre-writing and pre-number skills Inclusive school readiness

The Pre-School Package  Handbook for AWW with month-wise activity schedule for 12 months → →  Two age appropriate workbooks → →  Illustrated daily-plan for the AWC  Quarterly age-wise developmental indicators for assessing and demonstrating development in children  Monitoring format  Training interactive DVDs and Audio CD → →  Mobile chip loaded with PSE songs and rhymes given to all AWWs → →  Beautification at AWCs based on curricular learning and stimulation All materials available in DWCD website for use by all agencies, individuals and institutions.

The Pre-School Package  Uniform  Toy bank  Fixed Monthly ECCE Day on 19 th of every month  Enhancing community participation through celebrating sports day, Bal Mela, Local festivals, Child friendly wall paintings by local artisan and children creation exhibitions etc  Funding mechanism -  All components of Pre-school package developed from state fund  First lot of materials to the children given from state funds  Decentralization

Mother Tongue Based Early Child Education and Development  (22.2%) Tribal Population in the State  118 Tribal Projects & No of AWCs  yrs - 7,23,516 no of Children  yrs no of Children

Rolling out of the Mother Tongue Based Nua Arunima 10 Tribal Languages KoyaKui KissanKuvi MundaJuanga OraonSaura BondaSanthali  In 6681 AWCs in 12 Districts  Homogenous group of one language speaking children  Involving Multi Lingual Education Expert teachers and other experts  Emphasis on local context

Districts coverage under Mother Tongue Based Nua Arunima

Language coverage in AWCs

Capacity Development on ECCE Curriculum  1 st Phase Training for CDPOs & Supervisors  One day State Level Training for 100 master trainers on Mother Tongue Based Nua Arunima  District Level Training Plan of Contextualized ECCE Curriculum Shared  MTL Nua Arunima module with Pre & Post Module, FAQ and standardised PPT to ensure the quality of training and check transmission loss Click for Video >>>>>>

Convergence Dept. of Women & Child Development Dept. of S & ME Dept. of Health Dept. of ST & SC Welfare Academicians and Institutions Developmental Partners

Way Ahead  Promoting Buildings as Learning Aid Model (BALA) at AWCs  ECCE activity Monitoring Tool and dedicated Monitoring Unit  Impact Assessment Study  Taking up focused intervention in Micro projects – identifying and training Community Resource Persons and their capacity building  Introduction of Child Development Cards  Strengthening activity based contextualised learning

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