CBSE CONSULTATIVE MEET ON BAL VATIKA & JADUI PITARA 2024

A one day consultative meeting on Balvatika and Jadui Pitara was conducted for CBSE Schools across the state at Livingstone Foundation International on the 24th of May 2023. A total of 54 participants from more than 20 CBSE schools across the state attended the day long meet.

The one day meet was conducted as a part of CBSE ‘s initiative to create awareness on various facets of the National Curriculum Framework’s Foundational Stage (NCF-FS) which is one of the most important elements as enshrined under the New Education Policy for the foundational stage (3-6 years of age)

The meeting was conducted in a hybrid mode where the participants from various CBSE affiliated schools from Nagaland attended both the offline mode as well as the online mode. The offline meet, which was conducted at the LFI auditorium, was led by Mr. Anurodh Chitra, Principal, Delhi Public School, Dimapur while the online mode, which was conducted simultaneously with the offline mode, was led by resource persons from both NCERT and CBSE.

The meeting mainly focused on some key aspects of Foundational Stage including strengthening of Balvatika in schools, Jadui Pitara as a tool for learning at foundational stage, benchmarking of state specific material related to Jadui Pitara and SCF, e-Jadui Pitara, Curricular Goals and Learning Outcomes under the NCF-FS, imparting knowledge about pedagogies as recommended in the NCF for foundational stage, to work on CBSE Centre of Exellence (CoE) specific customization of Jadui Pitara, to share assessment practices as recommended by NCF for foundational stage and to share information about Capacity Building Programme on NCF-FS offered by CBSE.

The meeting was also marked by demonstrations on online access and utilization of resources through through Jadui Pitara and e-Jadui Pitara and also a better perspective of the Balvatika and the CBSE Affiliation Bye Laws.

Jadui Pitara is a wondeful educational tool which can be accessed by users in two different modes. Offline mode where users are given printed materials in the form of activity sheets and hands on materials like toys, songs, stories, puppets, games, etc. which makes learning easier and interesting while the online platform, also known as e-jadui pitara app gives users easy access to resources for teaching and learning. According to the resource person, Balvatika is another form of anganwadi. It is designed as a preparatory class for children before Grade-I with a focus on developing cognitive, affective and psychomotor abilities through learning by fun classes. It plays a dominant role in holistic development of a child.

Earlier, the Chairman of Livingstone Foundation International, Dr. Andrew Ahoto Sema shared positive opinion about the meeting and expressed his gratitude to all the participants from various CBSE schools for making the programme a successful one.

The programme was made all the more eventful by the esteemed presence of the Director, All India Private Schools’ Alliance (AIPSA), Mr. Shiju Augustine who during his interaction shared about collaborative efforts of all schools through Nagaland Schools’ Alliance (NSA) in enhancing a host of facilities and positive privileges for the Staff and Management of schools as a whole.