Gurgaon: State Council for Educational Research and Training (SCERT) plans to tweak its training programme for teachers and give them the option to pick and choose the training modules of their choice. Under the current model, all teachers have to take all training modules, but, according to the council, it wastes teaching time and other resources. So, now, it will set up the training programme depending on the needs mapped by the teachers.
SCERT asserted that it would set up a comprehensive teacher-centric training module, following the New Education Policy, and ensure at least 50 hours of training in a year. “Teacher training has been at the centre of education planning and policies. NEP also puts special emphasis on the training of teachers, and every state has to ensure that they have a comprehensive plan of conducting at least 50 hours of annual training of the teachers. So, we have decided to engage the teachers in mapping the training and workshop needs, and based on that, we can formulate a revised training module,” SCERT director Rishi Goel told TOI.
Academicians have suggested adopting an approach where teachers get the freedom to choose a set of training modules each year. The SCERT is drafting a proposal based on their suggestions and will send it to the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) for approval.
On the other hand, the pandemic has thrown up newer areas for the training of teachers, according to SCERT. Increased enrollment in state-run schools due to a decline in incomes has led to the need for a revised training model. “Pandemic has changed the teaching and learning needs. It has thrown up new challenges, which, if addressed properly, can lead to opportunities. So, we need to change the previous mechanism of training, where all teachers were required to take all the training. There was a demand and suggestions to make the training more teacher-centric in terms of this that the teachers get to decide the topics they want to get trained in,” said a SCERT official.
Teachers said that aside from this move, the education department and SCERT should actively work on the shortage of teachers in the schools. Several teachers in areas such as Nuh have claimed that, due to staff crunch, they have been failing to improve education standards while many students are dropping out.
“Training and all is good, but what’s the point when a single teacher gets forced to teach multiple subjects to multiple classes; at times, holding two classes together? All this, because there aren’t enough teachers. We have been demanding that the government appoint new teachers, but no action to date,” said a teacher of a senior secondary school in Nagina block of Nuh.
SCERT asserted that it would set up a comprehensive teacher-centric training module, following the New Education Policy, and ensure at least 50 hours of training in a year. “Teacher training has been at the centre of education planning and policies. NEP also puts special emphasis on the training of teachers, and every state has to ensure that they have a comprehensive plan of conducting at least 50 hours of annual training of the teachers. So, we have decided to engage the teachers in mapping the training and workshop needs, and based on that, we can formulate a revised training module,” SCERT director Rishi Goel told TOI.
Academicians have suggested adopting an approach where teachers get the freedom to choose a set of training modules each year. The SCERT is drafting a proposal based on their suggestions and will send it to the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) for approval.
On the other hand, the pandemic has thrown up newer areas for the training of teachers, according to SCERT. Increased enrollment in state-run schools due to a decline in incomes has led to the need for a revised training model. “Pandemic has changed the teaching and learning needs. It has thrown up new challenges, which, if addressed properly, can lead to opportunities. So, we need to change the previous mechanism of training, where all teachers were required to take all the training. There was a demand and suggestions to make the training more teacher-centric in terms of this that the teachers get to decide the topics they want to get trained in,” said a SCERT official.
Teachers said that aside from this move, the education department and SCERT should actively work on the shortage of teachers in the schools. Several teachers in areas such as Nuh have claimed that, due to staff crunch, they have been failing to improve education standards while many students are dropping out.
“Training and all is good, but what’s the point when a single teacher gets forced to teach multiple subjects to multiple classes; at times, holding two classes together? All this, because there aren’t enough teachers. We have been demanding that the government appoint new teachers, but no action to date,” said a teacher of a senior secondary school in Nagina block of Nuh.
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