1. NCF 2005 and Teaching at Elementary Level
Dr. Asha KVD Kamath
Regional Institute of Education
Mysore

2. Structure of NCF 2005 Five Chapters- 140 pages Chapter titles
1.Perspective
2. Learning and Knowledge
3. Curriculum Areas, School Stages and Assessment
4. School and Classroom Environment
5. Systemic Reforms

3. Guiding Principles of NCF 2005
- Connecting knowledge to life outside the school.
Ensuring the learning is shifted away from rote methods.
Enriching the curriculum to provide for overall development of children rather than remain textbook centric.
Making examinations more flexible and integrated into classroom life.
Nurturing an over-riding identity informed by caring concerns within the democratic polity of the country.

4. School and Classroom Environment
Teacher is a facilitator and supporter
Opportunities for intelligent guessing
Learner centeredness
Active learner engagement
Learning in the company of others
Giving primacy to learners experiences
Connecting school knowledge and local knowledge, going beyond the textbook
Repeated opportunities to use the knowledge

5. School and Classroom Environment
Learner friendly atmosphere
Understanding based learning
Respect for multiple views
Multilinguism
Learner autonomy
Flexibility
Opportunities to the learner
to evolve and create knowledge

6. School and Classroom Environment
Greater use of Audio Visual materials including charts, photographs, maps, replicas of archeological and material cultures.
Less of information transmission.
Softening subject boundaries.
Plurality of textbooks/learning materials.
Community participation to enhance quality and accountability.

7. NCF 2005 and School Subjects
Languages – Emphasis on reading- a solid foundation for school learning.
Mathematics - Succeeding is the right of every child.
Enhance child’s resources to think and reason, to visualize and handle abstractions.

8. Science – enable child to:
- examine and analyze everyday experiences
- deal with issues related to environment
- take up activities involving outdoor project work
- generate knowledge through discovery learning
Social Science- integration as well as disciplinary approach
-sensitivity towards issues

9. Work Education- Transforms knowledge into experience and generates values.
Art Education- Music, dance, visual arts and theatre.
- to express oneself in different forms
- interactive approach and not instruction

10. -socialising children into a democratic culture.
Physical and Health Education- more attention to be given
Peace – pre condition for development
-socialising children into a democratic culture.
-appropriate activities

11. Teaching - learning strategies
Critical Pedagogy
- Provides opportunities to reflect critically on issues in terms of their political, social, economic and moral aspects.
Accepts multiple views.
Democratic form of interaction.
Facilitates collective decision making through open discussion by encouraging and recognizing multiple views.

12. Experiential Learning
Direct participation in the events of life.
Reflect upon everyday experiences
Create space for exploration- data collection, classification, labelling, analyzing……..

13. Concept Mapping and Concept Map
Selecting key concepts and sub concepts, linking them through prepositions.
Making meaning out of horizontal and vertical linkages.

14. Creative Writing / Work
- develops cognitive and affective abilities
allows for free expression of thought, feeling and emotions
poster making, story boards, story telling, etc.

15. Thank you