All you need to know about club system introduced in Odisha schools

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has introduced an aspirational curriculum at the secondary level.

The Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha, issued a notification in this regard today.

The aspirational components of this curriculum are book review, project work, Information Technology (IT) skills and co-curricular activities.

To strengthen the student participation in these aspirational areas, a student-led club system is being established across all secondary schools in the state.

Students Clubs are small learning communities, equipping pupils to learn, adapt and enhance various skills and behaviours.

Along with attracting students with similar interests, clubs also encourage a spirit of building skills and healthy competition with collaboration, constantly motivating the students to find specialised areas of interest.

 School Clubs:

With an aim to nurture the students for future ready skills, it is decided to introduce four clubs in the secondary schools.

Jigyansa – Science, Nature & Culture Exploration Club

Sahitya Srujani – Literary & Artistic Club

Kaushali – Computing (ICT) & Social Innovation Club

Kridangan – Sports and life skill development Club

The clubs will comprise a pilot, co – pilot, a mentor, two class/ section representatives and the student members.

A teacher, nominated by the headmaster, will function as the mentor and guide the students as per the requirements of the club.

The mentor should report on the progress of the club to the headmaster on a regular interval as decided by the school.

For club such as Sahitya Srujani  and Kaushali more than one subjects are tagged to the system. Teachers from each subject will be either mentor/co – mentor for that club. The senior most teacher among them will be the mentor and other teachers will act as co-mentor.

Curriculum for the Clubs:

Along with aspirational curriculum, the curricular subjects according to suitability have been included in the club system as given below.

The club shall function separately for classes IX & X.

 FUNCTION OF THE CLUBS:

 GENERAL:

1. Mentor of the club will convene meeting of the club periodically and ensure that the students of that particular class are performing activities relating to Aspirational components as per programme schedule notified by the Board.
2. The members of the club are also to ensure whether evaluation on Aspirational components has been conducted in time or not.
3. The club should see records regarding conduct & evaluation are maintained properly as per Board’s norm.
4. It is also required to ensure that marks awarded have been uploaded in the Board’s online portal with attendance of each student for each quarter within scheduled time period.

SPECIFIC FUNCTION OF THE CLUBS:

 JIGYANSA:

1. For assessment purpose, General Science subject comes under this Club System.
2. Marks converted out of 10 marks in Internal Assessment in each quarter and out of 20 marks in Aspirational Components in each half will be awarded to the students against this particular subject.
3. Internal Assessment mark will be from Periodic test & Multiple Assessment conducted after completion of each chapter of the subject as per break up of syllabus converting into 10 marks for each quarter separately.
4. For Aspirational Components, Project based Learning Curriculum comes under this club system.
5. Under the Project based Learning Curriculum, the students have to prepare project activity relating to the chapters as per breakup of the syllabus.
6. Students have to prepare at least one project in each half which will carry maximum of 20 marks.
7. The subject teacher will conduct the Internal Assessment and award marks. The project work shall also be evaluated by the subject teacher for award of marks. This will be supervised by the mentor of the club.
8. The marks awarded out of 40 marks in both Internal Assessment & Aspirational Components shall be entered in the format (I & II) in each Half and handed over to concerned class teacher for preparation of Tabulation Register (TR) (Format III) for that half.

 SAHITYA SRUJANI:

1. For Internal assessment purpose, language (first, second & third) subject comes under this Club System.

2. Marks converted out of 10 marks in Internal Assessment in each quarter and out of 20 marks in Aspirational Components in each half will be awarded to the students against this particular subject.
3. Internal Assessment mark will be from Periodic test & Multiple Assessment conducted after completion of each chapter of the subject as per break up of syllabus for each quarter separately.
4. For Aspirational Components, Book Review comes under this club system.
5. Students are free to select at least one book from Odia/English/Hindi/Sanskrit/ other language for review. This review work will be spread over the entire academic session and shall be evaluated half yearly.
6. Book review will be compulsory for all students. Selecting same book in both classes is not permissible. Students should be encouraged to choose book in Class-IX & X in different languages.
7. Marks awarded to the student choosing an Odia book for review will be included under Aspirational Components in subject Odia (FLO) and similarly for other language books.
8. Students not doing book review in subjects have to perform other creative or group activities such as Literacy activities comprising publication of school magazine, wall magazine, bulletin board, debates, newspaper reading, creative writing under the guidance of Mentor/Co mentor, so that mark awarded out of 20 marks in each half shall be entered against those subjects.
9. Similar procedure as discussed under Jigyansa will be followed for preparation of TR and uploading of marks.

KAUSHALI:

1. For Internal assessment purpose, Mathematic & Vocational Trade subject s comes under this Club System.
2. Procedure for award of marks under Internal Assessment in subjects Mathematic & Vocational Trades will remain the same.
3. Students having vocational trades have to prepare related project or develop related models or perform creative activities based on break up of syllabus for award of marks under Aspirational Component to be entered against the trade subject in each half.
4. For Aspirational Components, Computing and Coding comes under this club system along with basic IT skills.
5. Under the Computing and coding Curriculum, the students have to prepare project activity relating to the chapters as per breakup of the syllabus.
6. Students have to prepare one project in each half which will carry maximum of 20 marks.
7. Similar procedure will be followed for entry of marks in TR and uploading of the same along with the attendance of the students in each quarter.

KRIDANGAN:

1. The subject Social Science has been included under this Club system.
2. Internal Assessment marks will be awarded to subject “Social Science” as per the procedure followed for other subjects.
3. Performance of students in life skills and co-curricular activities will be assigned under the Aspiration Component through the activities undertaken by the club.
4. The physical development activity has been made compulsory for the students.
5. Along with the Physical development activity, the students are free to choose at least anyone sports offered by the school.
6. Students participated in State/ National level Sports event need not choose any other activities.

Internal Assessment & Assessment on Aspirational Components

The formative assessments and performance of students in Aspirational Components can be better evaluated in Club system thereby reducing the fear psychosis among students.

Since many of the divisions of Aspirational Components & Internal Assessment are common, two out of the four divisions of the Internal Assessment introduced during 2021-22 shall be taken for evaluation that is Period test and Multiple Assessment in each subject.

The frequency of periodic test & multiple assessments has also been revised and with the introduction of the club system one periodic test and one multiple assessment shall be conducted after each chapter in every subject.

 ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE: -

1. Internal Assessment will be done under each subject in four quarters and Assessment on Aspirational Components under each subject will be done in each half as per breakup of syllabus.
2. The syllabus has been divided into four parts. Each part of the syllabus will be covered in one quarter. The time schedule has also been notified which is as follows.

3. (i) Internal Assessment in each subject will be done and marks will be awarded out of 10 in each subject in each quarter.

(ii) For Internal Assessment, Periodic Test & multiple assessments will be conducted in all subject after end of each chapter. This will be done during the course of teaching within the period assigned. No additional time has to be allotted for this assessment. It will be done by the subject teacher. Periodic test will be short type questions having one word/ one sentence answer. No. of questions must not exceed fifteen.

4. The suggested multiple assessments for both the classes IX & X in different subject may be as follows.

(a) Languages: Debate for Speech and language development, Vocabulary, Pronunciation, Explanation, Writing of Summary, Explanation and Moral of the Topic.

(b) Mathematics: Applying axioms, theorems and constructions in a different way, Examine and break information into parts by identifying causes. Proposing alternative solutions.