NEP-2020 Workshop - Agnes Mascarenhas Madam

Workshop organized by: Mrs. Ajita Parbat (Principal of CPSN)

Topic: NEP 2020

Speaker: Agnes Mascarenhas M.A., B.Ed Academician for the past 35 years. (CBSE certified Master trainer in various CBSE training modules like Life Skills, Adolescent Education, Classroom Management, Experiential learning, Ethics and value, and many more)

The main objective of this Workshop was to create awareness about the newly launched National Education Policy-2020 amongst teachers and to familiarize them with the skills to help them understand its nuances, curriculum changes, the shift in pedagogical skills, and its 360-degree holistic development of its stakeholders, the students.

Mam spoke about the National Education Policy2020, various steps involved, structure, and freedom to choose the subject for their graduation. She also stressed the NEP background, vision, objectives, implementation, student-centric education approach, curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment, etc. Further, she apprised the educators that the New Education Policy is based on the pillars of “access, equity, quality, affordability, accountability” and it will radically transform India into a “vibrant knowledge hub”. She shared that the substantial impetus placed on vocational education or hands-on learning in the new policy will give rise to multiple hybrid jobs. With the rapid progression of information technology, and to be able to offer the students a much broader, multidisciplinary foundation, she expressed the importance of using a holistic and multidisciplinary learning approach which will help the learners adapt and reinvent themselves to the demands of the new hybrid work culture and dynamic socio-cultural changes. She discussed the redesigned report cards which will be a “holistic, 360-degree, multidimensional report that would reflect in great detail the progress, skills, and uniqueness of each learner in the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains.