Aim and Objectives of FLN Mission -
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Dear Learners,
You must be eager to know about Foundational Literacy and Numeracy
mission. Why this mission has been launched? What is the aim? What are
its objectives? And How this mission will be implemented?
In this video we will try to find out answer to these questions.
The national FLN Mission is an important step of Government of India
towards ensuring that our children attain literacy and numeracy skills by
Class III. There is a set deadline of 2026-27 to achieve Foundational Literacy
Numeracy Mission targets.
Let us first understand what is foundational literacy and numeracy?
Foundational Literacy means oral language development, Decoding (sounds
and symbol relationships), reading fluency, reading comprehension and
writing.
Whereas Foundational Numeracy means developing number sense,
understanding shapes and spatial relationships, measurement, data
handling etc.
Now you must be thinking why this Mission?
There is a strong national concern today regarding the poor learning levels
of children at various stages of school education. NEP 2020 highlights that
a large proportion of students currently in elementary level – estimated to
be over five crore – have not achieved foundational literacy and numeracy.
In India, we have children who are first generation learners and do not
have an environment of literacy and numeracy at home.
Neuroscience researches highlight that rapid and extensive brain
development takes place during early years. The all-round capacities
that emerge in 3-6 years age-group are pre-requisite for later success in
school and life. Positive experiences received by a child at the foundational
stage, supports the child’s lifelong learning and development. If there are
learning gaps and they are not filled at the earliest, they continue to widen.
As a result children start falling behind in their learning levels and their
learning outcomes may not be achieved successfully. Besides this, NEP
2020 has highlighted that attaining foundational literacy and numeracy for
all children must become an immediate national mission.
Hence, FLN mission has been set up under the aegis of the centrally
sponsored scheme of Samagra Shiksha, which is an integrated scheme of
school education that covers from preschool to senior secondary level.
The intent is to systematically tap this phase of child development under
NIPUN BHARAT to overcome the learning crisis and build foundational
literacy numeracy with understanding, through a play and activity-based
approach.
If we wish to implement foundational literacy numeracy mission successfully
then we must know what is the aim of the mission. The basic aim of the
national mission of FLN is to enable all children to read and respond with
comprehension, independently write with understanding, develop number
sense, mathematical thinking, problem solving and reasoning.
The focus is on the holistic development of child. All children in the class
should be happy, confident, thinking and learning.
The major objectives of the mission are:
• To ensure that an inclusive classroom is built by incorporating play,
discovery, and activity-based pedagogies, linking to the daily life
situations of children and formal inclusion of children’s home languages.
• To enable children to become motivated, independent and engaged
readers and writers with comprehension, possessing sustainable
reading and writing skills.
• To make children understand reasoning in the domains of number,
measurement, shapes; and enable them independent in problem
solving by way of numeracy and spatial skills.
• To ensure availability and effective use of high-quality and culturally
responsive teaching learning material in children’s familiar/home/
language(s).
• To focus on continuous capacity building of teachers, head teachers,
academic resource persons and education administrators.
• To actively engage with all stakeholders that is teachers, parents,
students and community, and the policy makers for building strong
foundation for lifelong learning.
• To ensure assessment ‘as, of and for’ learning through portfolios, group
and collaborative work, project work, quizzes, role plays, games, oral
presentations, short tests, etc.
• To ensure tracking of learning levels of all students.
To lay emphasis and prioritise foundational learning, the programme will
be implemented in mission mode, with the use of and strengthening of the
existing mainstream structures. The Department of School Education and
Literacy, Ministry of Education (MoE) will be the implementing agency at
the national level and will be headed by a Mission Director.
Thank you!!
