JAADUI PITARA from Vajirao & Reddy Institute

JAADUI PITARA

• Minister for Education on Monday released learning and teaching material called the jaadui pitara or magical box for the foundational stage of schooling.

• A curriculum framework is prepared by the Union government for children in the age group of 3­8 to meet a key focus area of the National Education Policy to improve foundational skills of students.
• It provides for shifting from classroom learning based on textbooks to the one based on toys, puppets and story cards.
• Thus Minister for Education released learning and teaching material called the jaadui pitara or magical box for the foundational stage of schooling.
• The material also leverages technology and provides QR codes to enable teachers to access teaching resources such as poems, storybooks and flash cards.
• The teaching material released will pave the way for implementation of the National Curriculum Framework for Foundational Skills, 2022 released in October last year for students in balvatika (pre­primary) and Classes 1 and 2.
• As the children between three and six years learn best through doing activities “such as talking, listening, using toys, working with material, painting, drawing, singing, dancing, running, and jumping”.
• It lays emphasis on oral language development and oral math games.