The Directorate of School Education has notified for the information of all concerned that the Ministry of Education, in partnership with MyGov, is organizing an Online Competition for Teachers on ‘Preparation of Communication Material’ relating to National Education Policy (NEP-2020). The participating teachers (from Govt. & Private Schools) will have to prepare Communication Material on different Themes of NEP 2020 related to School Education given below.

Themes for the competition:

1. Early Childhood Care and Education: The Foundation of Learning
2. Foundational Literacy and Numeracy: An Urgent & Necessary Prerequisite to Learning
3. Curtailing Dropout Rates and Ensuring Universal Access to Education at All Levels
4. Curriculum and Pedagogy in Schools: Learning Should be Holistic, Integrated, Enjoyable and Engaging.
5. Teachers and Teachers Education.
6. Equitable and Inclusive Education: Learning for All.
7. Efficient Resourcing and Effective Governance through School Complexes/Clusters.
8. Standard-setting and Accreditation for School Education.
9. Re-imagining Vocational Education.
10. Adult Education.
11. Promotion of Indian Languages, Arts and Culture
12. Online and Digital Education: Ensuring Equitable Use of Technology.

The communication material can be in one of the following formats:

1. Film : Duration - 1 to 2 minutes, in MP4 format.
2. Posters: Poster size: 12" x 8"
3. lnfographics: In the form of power point presentation or slides.

The competition will be held at school level from 5th to 25th September 2020. School Heads shall select two best entries under each format and forward them through email to the respective District Education Officers on or before 29th September 2020. Details of participants (Name, Mobile Number, Email & Name of School) should be mentioned in all the entries.

            The District Education Officers shall select  best three entries under each format and forward them to the Director, SCERT, Kohima, Nagaland through email to ‘awalothyu@gmail.com’ with CC to ‘scertnagalandkohima@gmail.com’ on or before 7th October 2020.

Ten best entries, irrespective of theme and format, at State level will be exhibited in the State Education Department website from 15th October 2020 onwards and then will be submitted for national level selection to NCERT. Participants are informed to note that the entries submitted by them, may be used by the Ministry of Education in future and the submission of entry will be treated as the permission for the same on behalf of the participant.

(DIPR)