Thursday, August 22, 2019

HRD introduces biggest teachers’ training programme
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi  22.08.2019

: The HRD ministry has launched what it called one of the biggest teacher training programmes in the world, aiming at capacity building of 42 lakh in-service teachers and heads of schools at the elementary level in all government schools. Union HRD minister

Ramesh Pokhriyal

launched the national mission, National Initiative for School Heads and Teachers Holistic Advancement (NISHTHA) on Wednesday.

Pokhriyal said, “This is the largest teachers’ training programme of its kind in the world. The basic objective of this massive training programme is to motivate and equip teachers to encourage and foster critical thinking in students.”

The programme includes training of faculty members of State Councils of Educational Research and Training (SCERTs), District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs) as well as block resource coordinators and cluster resource coordinators in all states and UTs. This training will be conducted directly by 33,120 key resource persons and state resource persons identified by the state and UTs, who will in turn be trained by 120 national resource persons identified from NCERT, NIEPA, CBSE and KVS, among others.

Teachers will get awareness and develop their skills on various aspects related to learning outcomes, competency based learning and testing, learnercentered pedagogy, school safety and security, personal-social qualities, inclusive education, ICT in teaching-learning including artificial intelligence, health and well being including yoga.

Pokhriyal said that this training programme has been included as one of the two transformative ideas from this ministry for the 100 days programme of the government.

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