Lok Sabha Question No. 4183 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-03-27
Subject: High Dropout Rates due to Switch Over to Collaborative and Technology Learning
Ministry: Education
Asked by: P.R. Natarajan

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

## DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO-4183

ANSWERED ON 27/03/2023

## High Dropout Rates due to Switch Over to Collaborative and Technology Learning

## 4183.  SHRI NATARAJAN P.R.:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

(a) whether the education in the country is driven by a teacher centred approach for the past decades;

(b)  if  so,  expecting  the  students  to  switch  over  to  collaborative  and  technology  enabled learning would give much stress to the students and will result to higher rate of dropouts; and

(c) if not, the decision of the Government?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (SMT. ANNPURNA DEVI)

(a) to (c): The National Education Policy (NEP), 2020, empowers teachers and places them at the heart of the learning process through quality teacher education, recruitment, continuous professional development and positive working environment while ensuring accountability. As per NEP, 2020, National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) has introduced four year Integrated  Teacher  Education  Programme  (ITEP),  on  pilot  basis,  to  equip  teachers  with enhanced curriculum and pedagogical knowledge. Similarly, National Professional Standard for Teachers (NPST) for enhancing capabilities of teachers and National Mentoring Mission (NMM) for individual mentoring of school teachers by senior and retired teachers are at pilot study stage.

The Department of School Education and Literacy has launched an integrated Teacher Training Programme called NISHTHA - National Initiative for School Heads and Teachers Holistic  Advancement,  on  the  DIKSHA  platform,  to  improve  learning  outcomes  at  the elementary  level.  Module  6  of  NISHTHA  Elementary  is  Integration  of  ICT  in  Teaching Learning and Assessment which discusses the concept of ICT and its potentials in teachinglearning. The module aims at preparing a teacher to critically analyse the content, context, method of teaching learning and to  identify  appropriate  ICT.  It  also  enables  to  effectively plan  the  integration  strategies.    The  NISHTHA  programme  has  been  further  expanded  to NISHTHA  2.0  for  secondary/senior secondary level teachers and  NISHTHA  3.0  Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) for teachers and school heads from pre-primary to class V.

Para  4.6  of  NEP  2020  envisages  that  in  all  stages,  experiential  learning  is  to  be adopted, including hands-on learning, arts-integrated and sports-integrated education, storytelling-based pedagogy, among others, as standard pedagogy within each subject, and with explorations of relations among different subjects. Para 24.4. of NEP 2020 recommends key initiatives for leveraging technology for teaching-learning at all levels from school to higher education.

To  facilitate  the  online  learning  by  all  students  a  comprehensive  initiative  called  PM eVIDYA has been initiated as part of Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan which unifies all efforts related  to  digital/online/on-air  education  to  enable  multimode  access  to  education.  The initiative  includes  DIKSHA  (one  nation,  one  digital  platform),  one  earmarked  Swayam Prabha TV channel per class from 1 to 12 (one class, one channel), Extensive use of Radio, Community  radio  and  CBSE  Podcast-  Shiksha  Vani,  Special  e-content  for  visually  and hearing  impaired  developed  on  Digitally  Accessible  Information  System  (DAISY)  and  in sign  language  on  NIOS  website/  YouTube.  It  is  pertinent  to  mention  that  during  COVID pandemic  online  NISHTHA  and  PM  eVIDYA  have  ensured  the  continuum  of  TeachingLearning process. National Curriculum Framework for Foundational Stage and Jaadui Pitara (A Collection of Learning-Teaching Material) have been undertaken to implement perspectives of the NEP 2020 with regard to experiential learning.

Further,  Education  is  in  the  Concurrent  List  of  the  Constitution  and  majority  of  the schools  come  under  the  purview  of  the  respective  State  and  UT  Governments.  State/UT governments have been advised to act based on the situation prevailing at every place to meet the demands of all students for providing them with the digital access required for learning digitally. Depending on the states' requirement the Ministry of Education provides financial assistance under Samagra Shiksha for setting up ICT labs and smart classrooms.

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