Alternative academic calendar for secodary

and skills. These responses and changes are not fixed, in the sense that they

may vary depending on the pedagogy that the teacher uses. However, they

are all inter-linked and cumulative in nature. They need not be measured,

rather they need to be observed and if required, supported, particularly if a

gap in learning is identified. It is reiterated that these are not textbook

dependent. These require focus on a student’s day-to-day experiences.

Teachers and parents need to know about the Learning Outcomes, so that

they can observe the progress in the learning of their children in process

rather than taking learning as a product and forcing children to go through

a test for scores.

The next column is titled ‘Resources’. This column contains references

to textbooks, chapters, themes, e-resources, some web links, etc., for

teachers, to be referred to if they want to design contextual activities for

children. These are also helpful for parents to understand the activities they

are going to conduct with their children. It may be mentioned here that there

is no one-to-one mapping of activities with the learning outcomes, yet during

the conduct of these activities, parents/teachers can observe changes in

students in terms of their questions, discussions, their actions, such as,

classification of objects, etc. These changes relate to the Learning Outcomes,

and ensure that the student is learning. The activities given here are

exemplar; additionally, teachers and parents may design their own activities

that focus on these learning outcomes.

This Calendar contains class-wise and subject-wise activities in

tabular forms. In case of the languages—English, Hindi, Sanskrit and Urdu

activities for Classes IX and X are given together as the skill set is same.

However, the material that the teacher will refer to may be class specific and

different. Since Social Science has four areas at the secondary stage in the

form of subjects- History, Political Science, Economics and Geography,

activities related to these subject areas are given separatly. However, it is up

to the teachers and students to choose the activity to be undertaken, as per

their convenience and tools available.