2009-10 (16.6 MB) - The National Institute of Open Schooling

National Institute of Open Schooling
3.3. Projects with the Academic
Department
3.3.1 Adolescence Education
Programme (AEP) A MHRD,
UNFPA, NIOS Collaboration
National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) has been
implementing MHRD-UNFPA supported
Adolescence Education Programme (AEP) since
2005 with an objective that educational processes
should engage learners in creating knowledge that is
relevant to their experiences, promote healthy attitudes
and enable them to think critically and respond to
real-life situations in positive and responsible ways.
By building on relevant experiences of young people,
the program focuses on enhancing life skills to enable
them to tackle real-life situations effectively.
The main functions of the programme are:
• Curricular Interventions
• Capacity Building Initiatives
• ICT Support
• Advocacy
Curricular Interventions
In 2009, NIOS took
an informed decision
to undertake an
innovative pilot to
carry out curricular
interventions for
development of life
skills enriched
materials in selected
subjects. In order to
maximize the reach of the integrated lessons, the most
opted for subjects of Home Science, Social Science,
Science and Languages (Hindi and English) were
identified for integration.
During the year seventeen enriched lessons were
written in five subjects. The lessons went through
exhaustive rounds of peer and tutor review. A four
day workshop was organized at Jamia Milia Islamiya
and UNDP where nearly 50 tutors reviewed and
recorded their comments. Detailed feedback obtained
was later incorporated to finalize lessons. The unique
feature of this workshop was that it was also used as
a platform to sensitize translators and illustrators.
Limited edition of the lessons was printed for testing
by tutors.
Capacity Building Initiatives
Intensive training programmes were conducted for
NIOS officer in charge of five subjects, lesson
writers, graphic designers, translators, script writers
and tutors.
Capacities of NIOS officials and lesson writers were
built to develop evaluation items for testing life skills
in the subjects identified for integration of Life Skills
issues. Illustrators were trained to develop graphics
as an active teaching learning device before they
illustrated the integrated lessons.
NIOS plans to build the capacities of its tutors in the
conduct of effective Personal Contact Programmes.
A pilot programme under the AEP was run in three
states Orissa, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. A batch of
45 tutors from the states of Uttar Pradesh, Orissa
and Bihar was trained as Master Trainers. The
intensive workshop was inaugurated by Chairman
NIOS on the Children’s day 14 th November 2009,
where he dedicated the Package of Integrated
Lessons to the children of nation. The Master Trainers
in turn conducted a workshop to train Tutors of Uttar
Pradesh and Bihar. The workshops were conducted
in Lucknow and Patna.
225 stakeholders went through intensive training
programmes during 2009 under the Capacity Building
Initiatives of Adolescence Education Programme.
Training material was also developed for these
workshops.
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