<span style="color: #222222;">Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE today jointly launched an online certificate course on Experiential Learning for the 21st Century for Eklavya Model Residential School and CBSE teachers. It was jointly launched by Secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Anil Kumar Jha and CBSE Chairman Manoj Ahuja. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The certificate course is for capacity building of educators to achieve the aims of National Education Policy,  2020.The Experiential Learning for 21st Century Programme has been conceptualized as an online certificate course for educators – teachers, school heads and principals to help them adapt classroom learning to real life experiences. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Out of 650 educators, who applied for this, 350 have been selected based on the criteria of digital literacy, comfort with English, and their motivation to learn new pedagogies.  The program will be offered free of cost to all the selected teachers and principals from  20th November onwards. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Select teachers will be recognized as "Teacher Leaders" by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and will espouse the Experiential Learning Pedagogy to the Eklavya Model Residential School teaching fraternity in a phased manner. The course will capacitate the teachers to equip the students with 21st century skills and learning processes.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Addressing the participants, Secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs said taht  the program will do a great service for the cause of tribal education development having exponential impact on the way Eklavya Model Residential Schools  emerge as model schools in the times to come.</span><br />''