The Alternative Academic Calendar 2020-21 for secondary School Students


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                                 Foreward

 In this period of Covid-19, which is declared as a global pandemic, our 
teachers, parents and students have to remain at homes to prevent its 
spread in the community. In this situation, it is our responsibility to provide 
them with multiple alternative ways of learning at home through interesting 
activities. It is necessary because in the present environment of stress, we 
not only have to keep our children busy but also maintain continuity of their 
learning in their new classes. In this context, NCERT has developed an 
Alternative Academic Calendar for all the stages of school education.
Initially, this calendar is prepared for four weeks, which may be 
extended further. In this calendar the themes/topics have been selected 
from syllabus and are linked with the learning outcomes. Guidelines have 
been developed for conducting interesting activities based on these learning 
outcomes. But it is a matter of fact that many teachers and parents only
have simple mobile phones as a tool available at their homes and all the 
teachers and students do not have virtual classroom facility.In view of this 
the activities are designed and presented in such a way that many activities 
can be conducted by the parents and students on their own after talking to 
the teachers over phone. The teachers can contact parents and students 
using a range of tools starting from simple mobile phones to internet based 
diverse technological tools for giving them the appropriate guidelines for 
conducting these activities given in the calendar.
This calendar includes not only generic guidelines and subject specific 
activities, but also detailed material on the use of different technological and 
social media tools as well as strategies for reducing stress and anxiety in the 
present time. This guideline also contains activities related to art education 
and health and physical education. It also includes reference of many 
learning resources along with textbooks.
This calendar is flexible and suggestive.The teachers can implement 
this taking into consideration the contexts and needs of the State/UT. This 
calendar has been developed by the faculty members of all the constituent 
units of the NCERT including NIE, CIET, PSSCIVE and all the five RIEs 
using on–line platforms such as WhatsApp, Google Hang-out, Zoom, etc., for 

discussion and feedback. Their hard work is commendable.
          For implementing this calendar, SCERT and the Directorate of 
Education may form teams including faculty members from DIETs and 
School Principals, who can continuously follow-up and provide support to 
teachers using mobile phones and other accessible technological tools and 
social media.
I hope, this calendar will be useful for teachers and parents in 
creating a very conducive learning environment at home for the students so 
that they can learn in a very meaningful and joyful way. 
Suggestions of the concerned stakeholders are welcomed for further 
improving this calendar. Suggestions and feedback may be sent to director.ncert.@nic.in and cgncert2019@gmail.com.    
HRUSHIKESHSENAPATY
Director
 National Council of Education 
 Research and Training


 New Delhi
April 2020