1. Basic Information

CBSE PoliciesExpectations of CBSE from CBSE Teachers
Appointment and Service-Related Rules

You:

  • Should be aware of and follow service rules.
  • Should be aware of Affiliation Bye-Laws/ Examinations Bye-Laws of the Board.
  • Have to maintain several records regarding your service. Please familiarize yourself with the ones that are mandatory.

2. Responsibilities

CBSE PoliciesExpectations of CBSE from CBSE Teachers
Teacher’s Responsibilities

You must:

  • Aim and work for nurturing students’ personality through a stimulating environment in such a manner that they develop into conscientious citizens who realize their rights and duties towards the nation
  • Ensure that learning is shifted away from rote methods.
  • Keep a record in your Teacher’s Diary regularly of the teaching process and pedagogical activities done by them for the students.
  • Work for the enrichment of the curriculum to ensure children’s overall development with competencies that will make them future-ready, rather than remaining textbook centered.
  • Make assessments more flexible and integrated into classroom life
  • Connect knowledge with life outside the school making children learn how to learn so that they become lifelong learners.
  • Ensure inclusivity and equity, taking into account diversities and differences
  • Empower and enable marginalized learners to develop their capacity to realize their full potential.
  • Provide a safe and secure environment and ecosystem for the child to learn.
  • Ensure continuous augmentation of standards of teaching and learning through continuous self-evaluation, innovation and planning in advance.
  • Respect colleagues’ professional understanding and opinions and maintain relations with them in accordance with the highest standards of professional courtesy.
  • Be prepared to help junior colleagues in every way.
  • Accept senior colleagues’ authority while retaining the right to express personal professional opinions.
  • Recognize your duty to promote the causes of education and, therefore, the causes of the teaching profession.
  • Recognize the duty to improve as a teacher, becoming efficient in every way possible.

3. Pedagogy

CBSE Policies/InitiativesExpectations of CBSE from CBSE Teachers
Pedagogy

You should:

  • Download And Read Cbse Guidelines On Arts Integration, Handbook On Experiential Learning, Artificial Intelligence Integration, Available At www.cbseacademic.nic.in
    • Map the syllabus to the Learning Outcomes uploaded on the NCERT website.
    • Read the CBSE guidelines on Arts Integration and prepare Lesson Plans integrating Arts.
    • Devise Experiential Learning activities for different subjects.
    • Come together to plan activities and lesson plans of interdisciplinary nature.

3.1. Pedagogical Plan

CBSE Policies/InitiativesExpectations of CBSE from CBSE Teachers
Pedagogical Planning

You should keep in mind the following while preparing pedagogical plans:

  • Competency to be focused on.
  • Identifying how this competency relates to other disciplines and to real life.
  • Resources required.
  • Challenges to be addressed.
  • Lesson plan with innovative Pedagogy to meet the goal.
Curriculum

You must know that:

Subjects
  • You must be aware that CBSE does not follow any stream-wise distribution of subjects. For example, a student is free to choose Physics with Fashion Studies and Legal Studies.

4. Students and Inclusivity

CBSE Policies/InitiativesExpectations of CBSE from CBSE Teachers
Students

You must:

  • First meet the basic physiological needs of the students, before they can meet their cognitive needs.
  • Convey to students that they are valued and respected.
  • Make reasonable efforts to protect the student against harmful learning or health and safety conditions.
  • Ensure that your school does this:
    • Provision of clean healthy and hygienic toilets on each floor, with washing
    • Facilities for boys and girls separately, in proportion to the number of students.
    • Separation of toilets for the primary students from other toilets.
    • Provision of separate toilets for staff members.
    • Signage Boards displayed prominently in the toilets of all categories.
  • You must be aware of child counseling facilities given by the Board and also make students aware of the policies.
Measures for Inclusion

5. Assessment Practices

CBSE Policies/ InitiativesExpectations of CBSE from CBSE Teachers
Assessment Practices

You should:

  • Follow innovative assessment practices and should use a variety of assessment tools as mentioned in the various circulars of CBSE.
  • Use Portfolio as a tool of assessment.

6. Training

CBSE Policies/ InitiativesExpectations of CBSE from CBSE Teachers
Training Policy

You must attend:

  • 3 Days’ in-house training programme at the School level.
  • At least 2 days’ training programme preferably in association with the Centres of Excellence (C.O.E.) of the Board.
  • Full-time Training Programme of not less than 5 days, at least once in three years.
Annual Training Theme

You must:

  • Be aware of the annual training theme
  • Know that the theme of 2019-20 is Experiential and Innovative Pedagogy.

7. ShikshaVani

CBSE Policies/ InitiativesExpectations of CBSE from CBSE Teachers
ShikshaVani
  • You must be aware of the ShikshaVani podcast App by CBSE for latest updates on Pedagogy, Initiatives by CBSE, Education

8. Vidya-Daan

CBSE Policies/ InitiativesExpectations of CBSE from CBSE Teachers
Vidya-Daan

You must:

  • Use Vidya-Daan portal for better understanding of concepts, for queries regarding chapters
  • Share your best practices on the Vidyadaan platform
  • Share your innovative teaching-learning resources.

9. Diksha

CBSE Policies/ InitiativesExpectations of CBSE from CBSE Teachers
Diksha

You must:

  • You must access the Diksha portal at www.diksha.gov.in for teacher training courses, teaching-learning resources and assessment practices.

10.Examination and Evaluation

CBSE Policies/ InitiativesExpectations of CBSE from CBSE Teachers
Board Examination and Evaluation

You must:

  • maintain complete integrity and ethics(Remember, nobody except our own conscience watches us!)
  • be a vigilant invigilator during the conduct of Board examinations.
  • follow the instructions given by the Board for the invigilators/Deputy Centre Superintendents/ any other duty as assigned during the Board examination.
  • perform the duty with full commitment and dedication and follow the rules/ scheme/directions given regarding the Board Exam evaluation, if appointed as Examiner/evaluator/ AHE/HE by the Board.

11. Hubs of Learning

CBSE Policies/ InitiativesExpectations of CBSE from CBSE Teachers
Hubs of Learning

You must:

  • must share information and expertise, observations and reflections on areas such as:
                    • annual pedagogical plans
                    • curriculum plans and transaction strategies,
                    • learning outcomes,
                    • innovative pedagogy,
  • will make efforts for co-planning of curriculum transaction and if required, and feasible, even co- teaching in areas of difficulty.
  • must organize various activities together, such as:
                    • quizzes,
                    • project demonstrations,
                    • art exhibitions
  • must Collaborate in teaching and learning of Skill Courses viz. tying up jointly with industry, etc.

12. Competitions

CBSE Policies/ InitiativesExpectations of CBSE from CBSE Teachers
CBSE Heritage India Quiz

You must inform students about the activity and encourage their participation.

CBSE Cluster, Zonal and National Sport meet

You must inform students about the activity and encourage their participation.

CBSE Expression Series

You must inform students about the activity and encourage their participation

You must promote diversity in the competition by encouraging students to take part in various categories

CBSE Science Exhibition/ Fair

You must inform students about the activity and encourage their participation.

You must help them in thinking new topics and will support them to work in innovative manner.

Art Exhibition

You must inform students about the activity and encourage their participation.

CBSE StoryTelling competition

You must appreciate children to choose new topics and make an innovative story

You must inform students about the activity and encourage their participation.

Science Promotion Test

You must inform students about the activity and encourage their participation.

Aryabhatta Ganit Challenge

You must help students to see what kind of help they might need in mathematics.

You must inform students about the activity and encourage their participation.

CBSE Reading Challenge

You must inform students about the activity and encourage their participation.

Fit India Week

You must inform students about the activity and encourage their participation.

Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat Activities

You must inform students about the activity and encourage their participation.

13. Environmental Conservation

CBSE Policies/ InitiativesExpectations of CBSE from CBSE Teachers
Environmental Conservation

You must take all the possible actions taken to promote environmental conservation and for spreading awareness in the campus.

14. Disaster Management

CBSE Policies/ InitiativesExpectations of CBSE from CBSE Teachers
Disaster Management

You must acquaint students about various disasters that India is vulnerable to and the hazard maps to enable them to visualize their vulnerabilities.

You should prepare them for disasters through simple do’s and don’ts which they can imbibe and spread to families and communities.

You should plan activities that develop an interest of students in disaster management and they seek more information on disasters.

Do practice drills in association with State or National Disaster Response Force.