Delhi govt to set up 12 cchools of applied learning; focus on applicability of skills: Atishi

After Schools of Specialised Excellence Delhi will now get 12 Schools of Applied Learning from the coming year where the focus will be on applicability of skills learnt in curriculum rather than rote learning Delhi Education Minister Atishi saidThe education sector has received the highest allocation in the Delhi governments budget ever since the Aam Aadmi Party AAP came to power in the city she saidThe Delhi Budget presented by Finance Minister Kailash Gahlot recently had allocated Rs 16575 crore for the education department for the year 202324 the highest among all sectorsFrom the time Arvind Kejriwal became the chief minister of Delhi education has in every budget got the highest allocation In the first few years the focus was on sorting out the basics to ensure that infrastructure is in place proper cleanliness is there in schools there is proper training of teachers but now the focus is how education really has to happen in classrooms Atishi told PTI in an interviewAlso Read Mumbai lsquoRise up against the tyrannyrsquo says AAP leader as party launches countrywide lsquoModi Hatao Desh Bachaorsquo poster campaignThe government already has the model of Schools of Specialised Excellence where students from class 9 onwards get to choose what will be their grade of specialisation Already there are several streams of specialisation STEM performing arts humanities higher 21st century skills she saidFrom the coming year another form of school called the School of Applied Learning SoAL has been budgeted This school will run right from nursery to class 12The focus will not just be on regular disciplines but what is their applicability in the daily day to day lives of students and the world around she addedExplaining about the system the minister said education will be divided into three parts the primary years programme the middle years programme and the third part will be focussed on different skills that can be utilised for the students participation in the economyTwelve of these schools will be set up in the coming yearThese schools will be a model for our KG to class 12 education in coming years We have a tieup IB Board on how the curriculum can be applicationbased rather than rote learning based till class 8From Grade 9 onwards students will get to participate and interact with leaders from different industries so that by the time they finish their education they are not just in a position to think about what it is they want to pursue but they have already had that exposure to a high number of fields industries and businesses she opinedCan these schools be called an extension of the governments Business Blasters and Entrepreneurship Mindset curriculumSo far a lot of these programmes have been implemented For example in a piecemeal manner along with the regular curricula running in our school The School of Applied learning really focuses on creating an alternative and presenting that vision right from nursery to class 12What is it that a student should be taught that is applicable in their real life rather than what is mugged up in the exam and then forgotten for the rest of their lives she explainedThe government has 12 new buildings for these schools and thereafter after this pilot existing schools will also be converted into SoALThere will be two kinds of schools in Delhi School of Specialised Excellence and School of Applied Learning Atishi addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever