About: National Mission on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy called “National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN Bharat)” is a National Mission which lays down priorities and actionable agendas for States/Uts to achieve the goal of proficiency in foundational literacy and numeracy for every child by the end of Grade 3.
The Mission is set up under the aegis of the centrally sponsored scheme of Samagra Shiksha which is an integrated scheme of school education covering from Pre-School to Senior Secondary level. The children who are in Class 4 and 5 and have not attained the foundational skills will be provided individual teacher guidance and support, peer support and age appropriate and supplementary graded learning materials to acquire the necessary competencies.
Objectives:
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- To ensure an inclusive classroom environment by incorporating play, discovery, and activity-based pedagogies, linking it to the daily life situations of the children and formal inclusion of children’s home languages.
- To enable children to become motivated, independent and engaged readers and writers with comprehension possessing sustainable reading and writing skills.
- To make children understand the reasoning in the domains of number, measurement and shapes; and enable them to become independent in problem solving by way of numeracy and spatial understanding skills.
- To ensure availability and effective usage of high-quality and culturally responsive teaching learning material in children’s familiar/home/mother language(s).
- To focus on continuous capacity building of teachers, head teachers, academic resource persons and education administrators.
- To actively engage with all stakeholders i.e., Teachers, Parents, Students and Community, policy makers for building a strong foundation of lifelong learning.
- To ensure assessment ‘as, of and for’ learning through portfolios, group and collaborative work, project work, quizzes, role plays, games, oral presentations, short tests, etc.
- To ensure tracking of learning levels of all students.
Salient features:
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- Implementation strategy: A five-tier Implementation mechanism will be set up at National-State-District-Block-School level.
- Progress Tracking Mechanism: Learning outcomes have been divided into 3 three developmental goals:
- Goal 1-HW (Health and Wellbeing),
- Goal 2-EC (Effective Communicators),
- Goal 3-IL (Involved Learners).
- Goals are set in the form of “Lakshya Soochi” or Targets for FLN (Foundational Literacy and Numeracy).
- In view of the challenges of in-service teacher training across the different stages of school education, NCERT has designed an innovative integrated programme of teacher training, now, popularly known as NISHTHA (National Initiative for School Heads‟ and Teachers‟ Holistic Advancement).
