President's Message

The success of the NEP will lie in its implementation by the schools, message on the same by Mr. Rajaram Pangavhane (Patil), Founder President, Brahma Valley Education Campus, Anjaneri, Trimark, Nashik The NEP promotes theoretical understanding and multidisciplinary education across curriculum. The NEP 2020 is a comprehensive document which is designed to transform the education sector in the country, and its success will lie in its implementation by the schools. The schools need to redesign their processes on a fourfold path.

For long, schools have focused on high scores in board exams and academics has remained at the core of the teaching-learning process. However, the policy states that the curriculum and instruction in schools could be experiential, interactive and integrated with artificial diligence, sports, visual and performing arts.

The schools will have to shift their focus from syllabus completion to defining learning goals of each lesson and link assessments to these. It is necessary for the schools to reduce their syllabus and identify core essentials. It will also require the schools to encourage their teachers to learn and adopt innovative teachings. The NEP has given the highest priority to achieving foundational literacy and numeracy for all the students by Grade 3. This will require the schools to employ highly skilled teachers at the foundational who are conversant with the local language.

The NEP promotes theoretical understanding and multidisciplinary education across curriculum. For this, The teachers need to be trained. High-quality professional and digital courses on Diksha and Sywam need to be popularized and made available.

Teachers must also be helped with technology and devices so that data and documentation of the students’ holistic development is easy. Progress card needs to be designed to reflect the progress and uniqueness of each learner in psychomotor, cognitive and affective domain. The As the school plans to adopt the policy, parents must be sensitized to the changes in assessment pattern, promotion of innovative pedagogy and the removal of hard boundaries between subjects so that they make appropriate choices. Parents and students must also be made aware of greater choices of subjects, both vocational and academic being provided by schools. This will need planning for the distribution of resources and time allocation; connecting with institutes where students could pursue such learning.

The NEP will achieve Its goal only with a synchronized vision and action from all stakeholders. Today, we have the opportunity to try and provide the best possible learning experience to our students. The time to begin is now.

The NEP will certainly encompass the needs of the students making them skillful learners who are competent to face real time challenges. Schools must train the faculty and provide inclusive curriculum to promote inclusion and equity in education for the holistic development of the students.