ALAPPUZHA: The National Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has launched a scheme called Art Integrated Learning (AIL) to boost the academic performance and promote creativity, self-confidence and school pride among the students. A 10-day in-service training camp to equip the teachers to introduce AIL in the classrooms is being held at Socio Economic Centre, Kalavoor, here from Tuesday. As many as 45 teachers from selected schools in seven states across the country are participating in the camp which aims at building up resource persons in cultivating art-infused education system in lower primary schools.
Dr Pavan Sudhir, head, department of education in arts and aesthetics, NCERT, said the camp will help the teachers practise art education in classrooms with the existing resources. They will integrate various subjects with different modules of art, including painting, drawing, clay modeling, paper-cutting, theatre and dance. For instance, when a teacher teaches poetry, as per the AIL system, he/she would be able to enact the sequences described in the poetry. The teachers can use popular sloganeering style when they teach a complex problem. Through continuous training, the students will engage in their own learning techniques. They will think of classification and characteristics and the differences between art forms, he pointed out.
The project was started to implement the Right to Education (RTE) Act 2009 and the recommendations of the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2005 to improve value-based learning through mediums like art. It also aims at doing away with the system of rote learning at lower primary level. Rote learning is a memorising technique based on repetition. The AIL was first experimented in the municipal corporation of Delhi -run primary schools in 2011 with in-service training of 40 teachers.
