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CHENNAI: A core syllabus for Commerce for classes XI and XII is likely to come up in the country with the Council of Boards of School Education (COBSE) set to meet in Kolkata on September 10 to discuss the issue, CBSE chairman Vineet Joshi said on Wednesday.
"A core curriculum for Science and Maths has been prepared by the COBSE which is a voluntary organisation of various boards of school education including the CBSE and ICSE. Now, a few state boards, like Jammu and Kashmir, for instance, are in the process of adapting the curriculum to their own context. There is no compulsion on anybody to take it up since it was a voluntary activity of the boards to come up with a common syllabus," he added. Now, the COBSE would discuss about replicating the idea for the Commerce subjects too.
Elaborating on the progress of the CBSE's Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE), he said, "We are undertaking more teacher-training programmes and telling teachers that CCE just brings evaluation and learning together as the assessment of a student can be done while the child is learning. We are asking teachers to ensure that students do their project work in class, perhaps in a group, instead of taking it home and thereby, giving them excess homework."
Joshi was here to release multimedia-enhanced lesson modules in Physics and Chemistry for classes VI to VIII developed by the Kuruvila Jacob Initiative for Promoting Excellence in School Education and IIT Madras.
The digital lesson modules, prepared with the help of 80 faculty members from 22 city schools, use NCERT publications as primary sources and are intended to provide a supplement for teachers. Along with being available for free download at http://kji.iitm.ac.in, the modules are also available as DVDs which can be used by ICSE, CBSE and state board schools.
Endorsing the advantages of virtual learning, the CBSE chairman said children liked to learn from computers as there was "no fear of getting answers wrong and it gives instant feedback." Joshi said the board could even consider exploring the potential of virtual laboratories as they could prove beneficial to schools which did not have the necessary physical infrastructure.
Commenting on the collaborative venture, he said, "I had an opportunity to see the other material available in the market and found their quality was not good. Teachers can learn [from ventures like this] how to use computers and CDs to give students flexibility of learning. If a student is not in class, this will help them learn from home or the library. The CBSE would be happy to collaborate and take this process forward." S Viji, a representative of the Kuruvila Jacob Initiative, said they hoped to extend it for classes IX and X and develop content for Maths and Biology as well.
"A core curriculum for Science and Maths has been prepared by the COBSE which is a voluntary organisation of various boards of school education including the CBSE and ICSE. Now, a few state boards, like Jammu and Kashmir, for instance, are in the process of adapting the curriculum to their own context. There is no compulsion on anybody to take it up since it was a voluntary activity of the boards to come up with a common syllabus," he added. Now, the COBSE would discuss about replicating the idea for the Commerce subjects too.
Elaborating on the progress of the CBSE's Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE), he said, "We are undertaking more teacher-training programmes and telling teachers that CCE just brings evaluation and learning together as the assessment of a student can be done while the child is learning. We are asking teachers to ensure that students do their project work in class, perhaps in a group, instead of taking it home and thereby, giving them excess homework."
Joshi was here to release multimedia-enhanced lesson modules in Physics and Chemistry for classes VI to VIII developed by the Kuruvila Jacob Initiative for Promoting Excellence in School Education and IIT Madras.
The digital lesson modules, prepared with the help of 80 faculty members from 22 city schools, use NCERT publications as primary sources and are intended to provide a supplement for teachers. Along with being available for free download at http://kji.iitm.ac.in, the modules are also available as DVDs which can be used by ICSE, CBSE and state board schools.
Endorsing the advantages of virtual learning, the CBSE chairman said children liked to learn from computers as there was "no fear of getting answers wrong and it gives instant feedback." Joshi said the board could even consider exploring the potential of virtual laboratories as they could prove beneficial to schools which did not have the necessary physical infrastructure.
Commenting on the collaborative venture, he said, "I had an opportunity to see the other material available in the market and found their quality was not good. Teachers can learn [from ventures like this] how to use computers and CDs to give students flexibility of learning. If a student is not in class, this will help them learn from home or the library. The CBSE would be happy to collaborate and take this process forward." S Viji, a representative of the Kuruvila Jacob Initiative, said they hoped to extend it for classes IX and X and develop content for Maths and Biology as well.
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