National Annual Sahodaya Conference

16th National Annual Sahodaya Conference 2009
December 9th – 11th, 2009
at
Epicentre, Sector 44, Gurgaon, Haryana, India
The theme of the Conference is “Re-thinking School Reforms – Opportunities and Challenges”.
The proposed venue for the conference is Epicentre, Sector-44, Gurgaon. It is located 15 km from Airport and 40 km from New Delhi Railway Station. The contact person for the conference is: Dr. Indu Khetarpal, Chairperson, Sahodaya School Complex/Principal, Salwan Public School, Sector-15-II, Gurgaon. Tel. No.2333956, 2311421 and Ms. Nirmal Yadav, Secretary, Sahodaya School Complex Principal, CCASchool, Sector-4, Gurgaon. Tel. No.2330098, 2331264 and Mobile No.: 09810543840. Please note that the travel expenditure and the boarding and lodging expenses have to be borne by the individual participant and the Board will not reimburse any expenditure.
The following are the sub-themes of the conference:
- CCE – Paradigm shift from ‘Teaching to the Test’ to ‘Holistic Education’
- Examination reforms and Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE)
- Assessment for learning
- Objective assessment of learners for CCE
- Holistic Assessment
- Changing classroom assessment
- Building capacity for enhancing classroom assessment
- Contextualizing pedagogy to CCE
- CCE and Societal Change
- Engaging parents and community for CCE
- Embedding technology in Assessment
The conference souvenir is planned to be published by the Board which will consist of series of articles on the conference theme and sub-themes.
Those wishing to contribute for the conference’s souvenir may kindly send their articles on the E-mail addresses given below:
They may also post it at the address given below:
Shri Al Hilal Ahmed Asstt. Education Officer CBSE,
Academic Unit 17, Rouse Avenue,
Delhi 110002
Specifications for the article.
(i) It should be relevant and specific to one of the sub-themes rather than being generic in nature.
(ii) It should be based on real experience of the practitioner and should not in any circumstances be taken from internet.
(iii) It should be neatly typed with1.5 space on A4 size paper.
(iv) The soft copy may be mailed to : science.cbse@gmail.com , sadhanap.cbse@nic.in
(v) Principals who wish to find a slot of 5-8 minutes on any of the sub-themes may prepare a power point presentation and mail it to the following E.mail IDs : science.cbse@gmail.com , sadhanap.cbse@nic.in. These will be shortlisted after approval by a committee:
(vi) For any further query regarding the above, you may contact Shri R.P Sharma, Contact No.011-23211200.
more details at www.cbse.nic.in/circulars/cir49-2009.pdf