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Extra Class Activities/ Co-Curricular Activities

Co-curricular activities are activities conducted alongside academic curricular activities. They are important for developing students' personalities and supplementing classroom learning. They include activities like sports, music, dance, debate, drama, and more. Co-curricular activities provide educational, psychological, social, civic, physical, recreational, cultural benefits and help promote overall student development. Teachers play an important role in organizing these activities.

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Extra Class Activities/ Co-Curricular Activities

Co-curricular activities are activities conducted alongside academic curricular activities. They are important for developing students' personalities and supplementing classroom learning. They include activities like sports, music, dance, debate, drama, and more. Co-curricular activities provide educational, psychological, social, civic, physical, recreational, cultural benefits and help promote overall student development. Teachers play an important role in organizing these activities.

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Extra Class Activities/

Co-Curricular Activities
• These are the activities through which a learner
explores ones abilities, develops the strengths
and eradicates the shortcoming through informal
guidance, observation and self assessment.
• The activities undertaken to strengthen the
classroom learning as well as other activities both
inside and outside the classroom to develop the
personality of the child.
Meaning of
Co-Curricular Activities
• Co-curricular activities (CCAs) earlier known as
Extracurricular Activities (ECA) are the
components of non-academic curriculum helps to
develop various facets of the personality
development of the child and students. For all-
round development of the child, there is a need
of emotional, physical, spiritual and moral
development that is complemented and
supplemented by Co-curricular Activities.
Definition of
Co-Curricular Activities
• Co-curricular Activities are defined as the
activities that enable to supplement and
complement the curricular or main syllabi
activities. These are the very important part and
parcel of educational institutions to develop the
students’ personality as well as to strengthen the
classroom learning.
• These activities are organized after the
school hours, so known as extra-curricular
activities. Co-curricular Activities have wide
horizon to cater to the cultural, social,
aesthetic development of the child.
Importance of
Co-Curricular Activities
1. Co-curricular activities stimulate playing, acting,
singing, recitation, speaking and narrating in students.
2. Activities like participation in game debates, music,
drama, etc., help in achieving overall functioning of
education.
3. It enables the students to express themselves freely
through debates.
4. Games and Sports helps to be fit and energetic to
the child.
5. Helps to develop the spirit of healthy competition.
6. These activities guide students how to organize
and present an activity, how to develop skills, how
to co-operate and co-ordinate in different
situations-all these helps in leadership qualities.
7. It provides the avenues of socialization, self-
identification and self-assessment when the child
come in contact with organizers, fellow
participants, teachers, people outside the school
during cultural activity.
8. Inculcate the values to respects other’s view
and feeling.
9. It makes you perfect in decision making.
10. It develops a sense of belongingness.
11. CCA provide motivation for learning.
12. CA develop the values like physical,
psychological, Ethical, academic, civic, social,
aesthetic, cultural  recreational and disciplinary
values
Co-Curricular Activities have number of Values:
Educational Value
• These activities have great "educational"
potential
• All classroom teaching is theoretical
• Practical knowledge can be imparted through co-
curricular activities
• Language and expression improves through
debates
• Celebration of functions develops organizational
capacities and leadership qualities in students
Psychological Value

• The activities as the name suggests meet the


psychological needs of the students, mainly with
reference to social demands of the pupils.

• They help in expressing personal behavior and


provide a vehicle for creative thinking
Development of Social Value

• Social cooperation is recognized as one of the


important demands of citizenship
• It is difficult to teach through school subjects like
Languages, Mathematics or Social Sciences
• By participating in group activities, students learn
good manners and develop a sense of cooperation
• Students learn to appreciate the relationship of
an individual to the social group.
Development of Civic Value
• Qualities like initiative and leadership are not
always developed in a classroom
• On the playground, students get opportunities to
develop leadership qualities like initiative,
decision making, judgment, tolerance etc.
• These qualities are required for a democratic
society.
• Many girls and boys have little practice in
controlling themselves and in directing their own
affairs
Physical Development Value

• Games, sports and athletics directly contribute to


physical development of students, other co-
curricular activities also indirectly contribute to
it

• These activities provide a useful channel for the


growth and development of the body
Recreational Value

• By providing and organizing various activities,


opportunities can be provide to students, rather
than to spend their spare time in undesirable
activities e.g. movies, TV, idle talk etc.
Cultural Value

• Co-curricular activities are of tremendous value,


as they help in providing opportunities for better
understanding of our cultural heritage and
traditions, for example, activities like dramatics,
folk songs, dance, folk music, exhibitions and
celebration of various religious and social
festivals provide better knowledge and
understanding of our culture
Scope of
Co-Curricular Activities
• The scope of co-curricular activities is wide due to a
nearly inexhaustible list of interests •Good platforms to
secure the future both professionally and socially and
promote leadership quality
• Co-curricular activities are a great source of developing
student’s interest in studies, classroom and school
routine
• It nurtures student’s ability in co-operation, co-
ordination, organization and leads toward leadership
• These activities prepare a child for future challenges
Role of Teachers Organizing School Activities

1. The teacher must be a good planner so that the


different activities could be carried out
systematically throughout the year.
2. It should be the duty of the teacher to give
more and more opportunity to the child while
performing co-curricular activities.
3. The Teacher should act as Innovator by
introducing some innovative programs.
Role of Teachers Organizing School Activities

4. The teacher must be a good organizer so that


the students experienced maximum of it.
5. He should too act like as director, recorder,
evaluator, manager, decision maker, advisor,
motivator, communicator, coordinator, so that the
student and child could gained maximum of finer
aspects of Co-curricular activities.
Role of Co-Curricular Activities in Student Life

Co-curricular activities are the true and


practical experiences received by students.  To a
greater extent, the theoretical knowledge gets
strengthened when a relevant co-curricular
activity is organized related to the content taught
in the classroom. Intellectual aspects of
personality are solely accomplished by Classroom,
Role of Co-Curricular Activities in Student Life

while aesthetic development, character building,


spiritual growth, physical growth, moral values,
creativity, etc. are supported by co-curricular
activities. Frankness and clarity in language and
personality is supported by these activities. It helps
to develop co-ordination, adjustment, speech
fluency, extempore expressions, etc. among student
both at the school as well as college levels.
Benefits of Co-Curricular Activities

• Increase physical stamina


• Students can learn new things
• Betterment of communication skills
• Helps to develop the spirit of healthy competition
• Games and sports help to be fit and energetic to the
child
• It enables the students to express themselves freely
through debates
Types of
Co-Curricular Activities
1. Academic Development Activities
2. Aesthetic Development Activities
3. Cultural Development Activities
4. Emotional Development Activities
5. Leisure Utilization Activities
6. Literacy Development Activities
7. Moral Development Activities
8. Physical Development Activities
9. Productive Activities
10. Social Development Activities
11. Scientific Development Activities
12. Spiritual Development Activities
13. Multipurpose Activities and Projects

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