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based education practices for Children with Special Needs under the Sarva
Shiksha Abhiyan.
� A study was conducted for assessment of teachers’ essential competencies of
upper primary school teachers teaching children of scheduled castes.
� For assessing the impact of teachers’ training programme conducted for SC
dominated areas with low literacy and low education level of children from
Scheduled Castes, a field visit to three districts of Chhattisgarh and two
districts of Karnataka was made. Subsequently two four-day duration followup
teachers training programmes were conducted at SCERT, Raipur and
DSERT, Bengaluru.
� Studies were conducted to identify the barriers that affect Muslim girls’
participation in secondary education and to analyse the curriculum of
Maktabs and Madrasas of southern states of India from gender perspective.
� The Class XI textbook on Human Ecology and Family Sciences (HEFS) was
translated into Hindi and Urdu.
� A training programme on gender issues in education for SSA gender Coordinators
was organised for promoting gender sensitivity among stakeholders
involved in the entire schooling ethos.
� Training programme for teachers of Demonstrations Multi-Purpose Schools
of RIEs on Gender Issues in Education was organised at NIE, New Delhi from
17 to 26 May 2010.
� Research studies carried out to identify the students’ misconceptions in
chemistry; to study status of science and mathematics education at upper
primary, secondary and higher secondary stages; to study on classroom
transaction of biology at higher secondary stage; to study effectiveness of use
of computers and internet on learning mathematics at higher secondary stage.
� An investigation was carried out into different approaches to development of
environmental studies curriculum by states.
� Source books on assessment in Mathematics and Science at upper primary
stage have been developed.
� Textbooks on Pedagogy of Mathematics and Pedagogy of Science were
prepared for B.Ed. pre-service courses.
� Exemplar problems were developed in Science and Mathematics for upper
primary stages.
� The 37 th Jawaharlal Nehru National Science Exhibition for Children-2010
(JNNSEC-2010) was held at Jaipur from 25 to 30 November 2010. theme of
the 37 th JNNSEC was ‘Science, Technology and Society’.
� Proto-type Primary Science Kit contains materials for giving hands on
experience and opportunity for open ended activities to children has been
developed. Primary Science Kit (PSK), Upper Primary Science Kit (UPSK),
Secondary Science Kit (SSK), Secondary Micro-scale Chemistry Laboratory
Kit (SMCLK), Sr. Secondary Micro-scale Chemistry Laboratory Kit (SSMCLK),
Solid State Model Kit (SSMK), Molecular Model Kit (MMK), Upper Primary
Mathematics Kit (UPMK), Mini Tool Kit (MTK) and Toy Kit are being produced
and supplied.
Annual Report 2010-11