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NIPUN Bharat Mission – Strengthening Students’ Foundational Skills
NIPUN Bharat Mission – Strengthening Students’ Foundational Skills
Last Updated On: 02/12/2024
Joel Vas
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“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” – Carl R. Rogers.
What is NIPUN Bharat Mission?
The NIPUN Bharat Mission is a key component of NEP 2020, and its objective is to transform foundational education by ensuring all students achieve basic reading, writing, and numeracy skills. By the end of Grade 3, students should be able to read with comprehension and solve basic mathematical problems.
Key Objectives of NIPUN Bharat Mission:
- Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN): Ensuring every child acquires basic literacy and numeracy skills.
- Holistic Learning: Integrating diverse subjects and inclusive learning approaches.
- Teacher Training: Enhancing teacher capacities to deliver high-quality, engaging education.
This mission transforms traditional education into a more interactive, inclusive, and engaging experience for both students and teachers.
In this article
Key Components of NIPUN Bharat Mission
NIPUN Bharat Mission’s Impact on Teaching and Learning
How is LEAD Syncing with NIPUN Bharat Mission?
Key Components of NIPUN Bharat Mission
NIPUN Bharat Mission focuses on two primary areas to strengthen foundational skills: reading with understanding and numeracy. These components aim to ensure that children develop essential literacy and numeracy skills by Grade 3, enabling them to navigate both academic and everyday challenges.
1. Reading with Understanding and Literacy
NIPUN Bharat mission aims to develop strong reading and comprehension abilities, which are fundamental for lifelong learning. The key elements include:
- Spoken Language Development: Building children’s spoken communication skills to express ideas clearly and listen with comprehension.
- Decoding and Understanding of Letters and Words: Helping students identify and interpret letters and words to read fluently.
- Reading Fluency: Encouraging students to read with proper expression, intonation, and understanding of punctuation.
- Reading Comprehension: Ensuring that children not only read but also comprehend the text, interpret meanings, and respond thoughtfully.
- Writing Skills: Teaching students to write letters and words clearly, expressing their thoughts effectively through written language.
2. Numeracy and Mathematical Understanding
In addition to literacy, NIPUN Bharat Mission focuses on developing essential numeracy skills that are critical for problem-solving in daily life. The key numeracy components are:
- Pre-Number Concepts: Introducing children to basic mathematical ideas like more, less, equal, etc., laying the foundation for number operations.
- Numbers and Operations on Numbers: Helping students understand how to count, add, subtract, multiply, and divide, which are essential for everyday problem-solving.
- Shapes and Spatial Understanding: Teaching students about geometrical shapes and spatial relationships, enhancing their ability to visualise and analyse objects around them.
- Measurement: Introducing children to concepts like length, weight, and time, helping them understand how to measure different quantities.
- Data Handling: Encouraging students to collect, organise, and interpret data, which is an important skill in today’s data-driven world.
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NIPUN Bharat Mission’s Impact on Teaching and Learning
NIPUN Bharat programme targets to focus on and impart various initiative teaching skills by which the foundation schooling of basic courses of mathematics, English, Hindi, and many more subjects have been strong. Moreover, the NIPUN Bharat programme offers various benefits to transform school education nationwide. NIPUN Bharat Mission benefits include:
- Inclusive learning in classrooms
The NIPUN Bharat programme ensures an inclusive classroom environment by encompassing play, discovery, and activity-based pedagogies, integrating them into the daily life situations of the children & formal inclusion of children’s home languages.
- Proficiency in reading with understanding and numeracy
Children are empowered to become independent readers and writers, developing critical skills in understanding measurement, numbers, and shapes. They are also trained to use logical reasoning in problem-solving.
- High-quality teaching learning material
The programme aims at ensuring the availability and effective usage of high-quality and culturally responsive teaching-learning material in students’ familiar/home/mother language(s).
- Stakeholder’s capacity building
NIPUN Bharat Mission focuses on the continuous professional development of teachers, academic resource persons, and education administrators, ensuring they are equipped with the skills and knowledge to foster student success.
- Interactive & interesting learning
The programme ensures assessment learning through portfolios, collaborative and group work, project work, quizzes, role plays, oral presentations, games, short tests, etc.
How is LEAD Group Syncing with NIPUN Bharat Mission?
At LEAD Group, we have been at the forefront of integrating NEP 2020 and NIPUN Bharat Mission objectives into our curriculum. LEAD partner schools focus on holistic child development, covering various aspects such as physical, cognitive, socio-emotional, and literacy and numeracy development.
Key ways LEAD Group supports the NIPUN Bharat Mission:
- Offering comprehensive teacher training programs aligned with the mission’s objectives.
- Providing high-quality digital resources for students and teachers.
- Regularly tracking and assessing student progress using innovative tools such as Holistic Progress Cards.
How is LEAD Group following NIPUN Bharat Mission objectives?
In line with NEP 2020 recommendations, LEAD Group follows the following NIPUN Bharat Mission objectives:
- Help children read with comprehension
- Help children understand numbers, measurement, and shapes
- Provide high-quality teaching-learning material to engage children
- Use play and activity-based pedagogy
- Sampoorna Hindi Program to make children confident in Hindi
- Build capacities of teachers, Academic Resource Persons, education administrators
- Track children’s learning levels consistently
- Conduct meaningful assessments using quizzes, polls, games, etc.
How LEAD Group is Empowering Teachers to Ensure the Success of NIPUN Bharat Mission
Teachers are at the core of NIPUN Bharat Mission’s success, and LEAD Group ensures that they are well-equipped to meet its challenges:
- Awareness of Learning Outcomes: LEAD-trained teachers understand grade-level lakshya’s (goals) and tailor their teaching accordingly.
- Experiential Learning: Our teachers are trained in multi-level, student-centred teaching that emphasises hands-on learning through activities such as art, storytelling, and games.
- Formative Assessments: Teachers use a variety of tools to monitor student progress and adjust learning paths to meet each child’s needs.
Conclusion
It is significant that every child has a better understanding of language, writing, learning and reading under the NIPUN Bharat programme. The mission aims to impart National Initiative Proficiency in Understanding and Numeracy among the children of primary to Class 3 students.Â
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Joel Vas
Joel Vas is the Regional Account Manager at LEAD. Along with procuring a masters degree from T. A. Pai Management Institute, he has 7 years of experience across BFSI, Travel and Edtech industries. At LEAD, he ensures every parent knows the information and product benefits involved for their child.
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