‘CCE is an evolution of old system’

She says teaching today should empower children with “21st century skills”. Skills like entrepreneurial skills,civic skills,skills for global citizenship,information technology,well being and all these competencies. “These are the skills for the future,and we need to ensure that our children are geared for that kind of requirements and opportunities,” asserts Watal and for this,she says it is essential to “rework” our learning patterns.

The CCE was introduced by the Central Board of Secondary Education in 2009 at Class IX level,and that batch of students will take the Boards in 2013. Wattal says since the first batch of students who underwent the CCE system in its totality are still in school,it might be “too early” to judge the system. “You have to give the system time. Education policy takes time to settle down,” she says. She adds that we are a country of very “reactive” people and we all should instead focus on being proactive.

She says information or subject driven learning is not the answer to the education woes of the country and that learning needs to be connected to skills and opportunity. “The challenge there is teacher training and how to make assessment uniform,” Wattal says.

She believes that the kind of control over a child’s education that the old system provided to parents,is lacking in the new system. “The CCE was created to fill in the void brought in by scrapping the Class X Boards because there is no need for two intense exams during the child’s learning years between 13 and 17,” she says. However,parents’ concerns regarding the CCE are being addressed by country-wide parent advocacy workshops.

Mentoring and monitoring of schools under the CCE takes place when school principals meet and discuss the system’s issues on a regular basis.

“It’s a 30 degree learning process that not only helps children,but also teachers,parents and other stake holders,” Watal said.

She explains how the CCE caters to students from all backgrounds,irrespective of how he or she performs in a particular subject,as it takes into account not just the class performance but also the co-scholastic activities.

According to Wattal,holistic learning comes from interacting with multiple systems of learning and not just reading and regurgitating books in a formal examination.

“In education there are no revolutions,there is evolution and the CCE is an evolution of the old examination system,” she says.

The learning system,she says,will evolve in the country over the next decade.

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