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4.2 Pedagogical Plans:

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• Vide circular Acad 15/2019 dated 9 March 2019, CBSE has issued guidelines related
to Pedagogical Plans. Do go through them.

• Pedagogy is the manner in which a teacher teaches her/his learners to acquire certain
CHAPTER 4 : PLANNING BY TEACHERS
competencies as stated by the outcomes of learning. There are several pedagogical
approaches, but in accordance with the NCF 2005, we follow the constructivist
approach. According to this approach, the child is placed at the centre of learning and
the approach believes that children learn best through experiencing and reflecting
on the topics/concepts being taught.

DICtIoNaRY

Pedagogy
Noun

According to Merriam-Webster: the art,
science or the method of teaching.

• The Board envisions that each teacher must have the capacity to make her/his own
lesson plan for each lesson to be taught by her. These lesson plans must be innovative,
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based on experiential learning and preferably integrate art in the pedagogy.
• Single lesson plans can then be combined into an annual pedagogical plan of the
teacher.

• The Principal will combine all annual pedagogical plans of all teachers of all grades
and subjects of the school into an Annual Pedagogical Plan of the school.

• This plan must give equal importance to the scholastic and co-scholastic areas.

• Pedagogical plans are VISIoN to aCtIoN plans. For the teachers, a Pedagogical
Plan means converting his/her vision of the teaching-learning process in his/ her
classroom to action.

• Pedagogical Plans imbibe all thinking, preparation and steps of execution involved in
making each stage of curriculum transaction (setting learning objectives, preparing

2 Please see examples of innovative and experiential learning based lesson plans in the Experiential learning
Handbook of the Board.

3 Please see examples of innovative and art integrated lesson plans in the Integration of Art in Education
Guidelines of the Board.
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