Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya: Where the helpless become empowered with education
Founded by the School and Mass Education Department of Government of Odisha, the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Sangathan is the apex body that supervises t .. .
Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya: Where the helpless become empowered with education
Founded by the School and Mass Education Department of Government of Odisha, the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Sangathan is the apex body that supervises the establishment and running of a chain of model schools called the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya.
These CBSE affiliated model schools are set up in nearly every district of Odisha. The focus is to establish one of these model schools at every backward block of Odisha where children face many obstacles on the road of education.
The Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya project is especially beneficial for kids who come from underprivileged sections of the society and belong to economically unstable families. The Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya provides free education from Class VI to Class XII. From nutritious mid-day meal programmes designed for the complete development of the kids to appropriate textbooks and study materials, the students of an Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya get access to all kinds of resources needed for a fruitful and successful academic career. Like other government schools, the uniform of Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya is also free.
What sets Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya apart from other state government run schools is the CBSE affiliated academic structure they follow and the modern facilities offered to students on the premises of the schools. From smart classrooms to well-equipped laboratories, sports infrastructure to highly educated faculty, an Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya offers everything that a national level CBSE affiliated school provides its students with.
Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya hold an annual entrance exam for school admissions every year and this year, the case was no different. Deserving children from different parts of Odisha and from different backgrounds get the chance to study at the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya through the annual entrance examination. Children who have suffered from an early age and are at risk of losing their basic rights of education and safety are given the opportunity to study at the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya. This year, 31 kids saved by government and non-government organisations from atrocities like child marriage, child labour, trafficking and abuse have cleared the annual entrance examination to study at the Odisha Adarsh Vidyalaya . Out of the children who will be joining the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya for education, 7 are from Cuttack, 7 and 7 are from Gajapati. Children from Nabarangpur, Sonepur, Jharsuguda will also be joining the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya this year. By giving the underprivileged and abused children an opportunity to study at the state model schools, the Odisha government is helping thousands of children in building a golden future for themselves.
Posted On:10-03-2021
The Wheel of Progress goes on for Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya in Sambalpur
The Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya as an institution aims to bring parity in the education sector of the state and provide educational resources for free to .. .
The Wheel of Progress goes on for Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya in Sambalpur
The Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya as an institution aims to bring parity in the education sector of the state and provide educational resources for free to children from different regions of the state.
The establishment and running of these OAVs is monitored and reviewed by the top officials of the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Sangathan. The top officials of the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Sangathan often go on block and district visits to take an onsite review of the progress and functioning of an Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya.
One such visit was undertaken by the Honourable Adviser of Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Sangathan, Dr Bijaya Kumar Sahoo and Project Director of Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Sangathan, Mr. Lingraj Panda recently.
On 7 March 2021, Dr. Sahoo and Mr. Panda went on a joint visit to the Sambalpur district. They visited the construction site of OAV Maneswar Block & OAV Dhankauda Block and OAV functional school at Rengali & Bamara. During their visits to the block Odisha Adarsha Vidyalayas, they also interacted with the principals, teachers and officials of the institutions. Their interactions with the staff at the institutions gave them a deeper insight and understanding into the progress that has been made in Sambalpur under the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya initiative and the problems that need to be resolved for their smooth functioning in the future.
Dr. Sahoo and Mr. Panda also visited the Rengali test centre and interacted with the parents and students who came to appear the entrance test for induction into OAVs at the centre. They connected with the young students and encouraged them to do well in the entrance test.
The visit concluded on 8 March, 2021 with a review meeting chaired by Dr Bijaya Kumar Sahoo which was held at the Collectorate with Collector Subham Saxena, IAS, Sub Collector, DEO, all BEOs, BDOs, all Principals of OAVs of Sambalpur, representatives from Works, RD and RWSS Depts in attendance. The overall review of the pace of establishing OAVs in the Sambalpur district was taken in the meeting. A discussion on the upgrade of educational infrastructure and sports facilities and the improvement of teaching and learning methods at the district Odisha Adarsha Vidyalayas was also on the agenda of the meeting.
Posted On:06-03-2021
The success story of students at Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya
For today’s generation, failure is not an option. It has been found through studies that each successive generation of the human race is more intellig .. .
The success story of students at Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya
For today’s generation, failure is not an option. It has been found through studies that each successive generation of the human race is more intelligent than the previous one. It is therefore, not a surprise that the world is becoming highly competitive and students are eyeing success more and more. For the present generation of students, achieving success in the academic sector is highly important. The students are also highly motivated and are committed to put in the effort needed to succeed in their academic career.
The top CBSE schools of the country are also changing their outlook to education to suit the demands of the highly competitive world. It is no more enough to just help the students pass their exams, the goal of the top schools in the country is to bridge the skill gap between the present and the future of the students so that they emerge future ready.
High intelligence and highly competitive attitude of the students means that the schools have to employ highly educated and experienced faculty who are able to teach and guide the students in a better way than other teachers. A strong and smart faculty is the backbone of a successful school of the country that acts as the alma mater of students who emerge as leaders of tomorrow.
The aim of setting up an Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya by the Odisha state government is to set up a national standard chain of schools that educate the children of the state so that they are at par with the children of other states and set examples of education and skill nationally.
At an Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya, the students are provided with constant mentoring and guidance from the teachers. The mentoring of the students is highly emphasized during exam time when the students need a high level of preparation. For the students of Class X and Class XII of the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya, the school distributes the Gyanakosha, a bank of probable and previous year questions so that the students excel in the board examinations.
For students of other classes, the teachers help through doubt clearing sessions and self-study sessions. Students are divided into different study groups and each group is assigned a teacher mentor who supervises the learning progress curve of the group and ensures that all the students entrusted to him excel in examinations. The teacher mentor system increases the focus of the guidance that the students get. The teachers of the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya are reviewed by the principal of the school from time to time. This helps the teachers in staying at a high-performance level and ensure that students give 100% success rate in exams with zero failure.
Posted On:05-03-2021
Centre of Excellence Schools: where students learn the skills of tomorrow
Gone are the days when study was only restricted to academic books and rote learning. There was a time when schools were simply centres of rote learni .. .
Centre of Excellence Schools: where students learn the skills of tomorrow
Gone are the days when study was only restricted to academic books and rote learning. There was a time when schools were simply centres of rote learning and exams at schools were methods of testing memory of a student. Today, education has diversified into the imbibing of various skill sets. In a highly competitive world where skilled manpower and practical experience is given more importance than theoretical knowledge, it is important that the present generation of students secure an education that strikes a balance between theoretical knowledge and practical skill enhancement. It is no more enough to only teach the students what the books have reiterated over the years. It is necessary that experiential learning and teaching by example are adopted by today’s schools.
As a chain of state government run model schools, the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya are setting examples of modern education for other schools of the state and the country. Apart from offering high quality education to meritorious students of the state for free, an Adarsha Vidyalaya is also where modern education and traditional values of learning are applied to give a new face to contemporary learning. The Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya are a chain of schools run by the Odisha government where meritorious and needy students from the lower sections of the society are offered education for free. The government not only offers the opportunity of education to the young children but also gives them the proper base to develop into responsible and contributing citizens of the country.
An Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya has great infrastructure, a strong and educated faculty and all modern facilities on offer for the deserving students of the state who want to empower themselves with the light of education. The state government is constantly working towards bettering the educational infrastructure of the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya. Under the initiative to improve the infrastructure of the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya, 10 Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya have been chosen by the state government to be transformed into Centres of Excellence. These Centres of Excellence Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya will be changed into scientifically upgraded schools by the inclusion of well equipped laboratories of science. In these well equipped laboratories, students can explore the magnificence of science and emerge as future innovators and thinkers. The 10 Centres of Excellence Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya have also been upgraded with hostel facilities for the kids so that the students can live in a secure community of learning and grow up in a competitive academic environment that pushes them towards excellence.
Two of the 10 Centres of Excellence Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya are located in Bolangir District. One of these is Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Patharchepa in Bolangir Block and the other is Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Bibina in Saintala block. Similarly, two Centres of Excellence Odisha Adarsha Vidyalayas have been established in the Ganjam District in Patrapur and Polasra blocks named Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Badapur and Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Hatiota. Kalahandi district has two Centres of Excellence Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya named Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Musiguda in Bhawanipatna block and Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Madanpur in Madanpur Rampur block. Keonjhar districts has two Centres of Excellence Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya named Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Champua in Champua block and Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Salapada in Anandpur block. Similarly, Koraput district has one Centres of Excellence named Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Machhra in Koraput block and Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Sanmouda in Mayurbhanj district of Rairangpur block has also been turned into a Centre of Excellence Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya.
Posted On:04-03-2021
Introduction of Commerce at the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya
At the senior secondary level, the students of leading top CBSE schools of the country are given the choice of stream. By choosing the stream of study .. .
Introduction of Commerce at the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya
At the senior secondary level, the students of leading top CBSE schools of the country are given the choice of stream. By choosing the stream of study at the senior secondary level, the students broadly choose the professional stream they want to take in future. This decision of choosing the stream is a crucial one a student has to take when transitioning from class X to class XII. Students are often confused on which stream to choose in the senior secondary level but with proper guidance and counselling they choose the stream that they can narrow down as a profession in future.
For their senior secondary education students choose a school that offers a diverse portfolio of streams. The three main streams that a student can choose from at the senior secondary level are arts, science and commerce. Arts or humanities usually include the studies like English, Sociology and Political science. Arts are taken by students who want to pursue a career in the humanities and other subjects that are closer to the way a human interacts in the society.
Sciences are taken by students who want to make a career in the technical and scientific field. The sciences include physics, biology, and chemistry, the basic sciences that form the fundamental framework of every technical level professional education. The sciences are most opted by students because there is a higher chance of professional success in the technical field. Scientific and technical professionals are some of the most highly paid professionals in the country.
After science, commerce is the most opted stream by students in India because it paves the way to entrepreneurship and managerial roles in businesses. The subjects of accounting, business studies, marketing and economics are studied by students of this stream.
An Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya, students can study till class XII. At the senior secondary level, any Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya offers streams like science. Currently, commerce stream has been introduced in 30 Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya in the initial phase. Slowly, senior secondary level commerce will be a part of the Class XI and Class XII syllabus at every Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya. The students of the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya are going to be able to pursue a senior secondary level education in different commerce subjects that will make them able enough to pursue higher education at the leading business management and commerce institutions of the country.
Posted On:03-03-2021
GYANAKOSHA: the treasure of knowledge at an Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya
In schools all around the country, the exam season is a hectic one. When it comes to the topic of board examinations, schools pull all stops in prepar .. .
GYANAKOSHA: the treasure of knowledge at an Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya
In schools all around the country, the exam season is a hectic one. When it comes to the topic of board examinations, schools pull all stops in preparing their students to face one of the deciding exams of their lives. From a small age itself, starting from somewhere around class VIII, schools, teachers and parents start preparing a student mentally for the important exam of board examinations. All the top CBSE schools of India put much stress on the practice of conducting board examinations for the classes of X and XII. To look at they may look like normal exams from afar, but everything about the board of examination has an importance attached to it.
For a student, the marks he or she secures in the Class X board examinations are the ones that determine which stream he or she chooses to study after Class X. The marks secured in the CBSE X board examinations directly or indirectly influence the career path a student takes after school finishes. CBSE XII board examination marks are again more decisive about the career path a student might take because higher education institutes and universities look at the board examination marks before choosing a student on the basis of merit for further studies. Even in different national level entrance tests that decide the fate of lakhs of students every year, the marks secured in board examinations has high importance. The marks secured by a student in the board examinations of Class X and Class XII is the benchmark of his hard work and dedication to his field of study. The marks are also a parameter of clarity for the fundamentals of early education that is needed for further studies and professional pursuit.
The CBSE affiliated schools take CBSE board examinations seriously and start preparing their students through 12th class study material and class 10th sample papers, question banks, weekly tests and quizzes. Being a CBSE affiliated school, an Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya also offers relevant material to the students through Gyanakosha. Gyanakosha was introduced during the time of the COVID 19 lockdown in 2020 to help class X and class XII students prepare for the board examinations thoroughly. The Gyanakosha’s contents were designed and divided according to the capability and learning needs of the students. The Gyanakosha has three versions, one for the scholar students, one for the average to good students who perform well in the exams and one for the poorly performing students who need additional help in preparing for the examinations. The categorization of Gyankosha helps in addressing the individual learning concerns of the students. The translation of Gyanakosha means the treasure of knowledge and the study material offered to class X and class XII students of an Adarsha Vidyalaya has the question bank of all CBSE board exam questions of last five years, Sample papers, solved and unsolved papers. For each subject, the Gyanakosha has questions and answers of CBSE board examinations 2016-2020. The previous year questions are followed by an abstract analysis of the most important topics from which maximum questions were chosen in the last five years. This helps the students in ranking the topics priority wise and cover the most important topics first. The Gyanakosha also has concept maps of various chapters included in it for the better understanding of concepts by the students. The book also contains sample question paper of every subject for the current year so that students can gauge their preparations. Each chapter of the Gyanakosha is followed by keynotes of the topic so that the students can recapitulate the important points related to the topic. The Gyanakosha has study material related to English, Odia, Mathematics, Science, Social Science, for class X. For class XII students, the Gyanakosha has subjects of English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology for practice. The Gyanakosha is a complete practice booklet offered by the government to the students of Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya so that they are empowered by learning resources to enhance their achievement level in the board examinations of Class X and Class XII.
