Gurgaon: State Council for Education Research and Training (SCERT) plans to change the training program for teachers and give them the choice to choose and choose the training module of their choice.
Under the current model, all teachers must take all the training modules, but, according to the council, he waste teaching time and other resources.
So, now, this will arrange training programs depending on the needs mapped by the teachers.
Scerts emphasized that it would make a comprehensive teacher-centric training module, following a new educational policy, and ensuring at least 50 hours of training in a year.
“Teacher training has been in the Planning and Education Policy Center.
NEP also provides special emphasis on teacher training, and each country must ensure that they have a comprehensive plan in carrying out at least 50 annual training hours of teachers.
So we have decided to involve teachers In mapping the needs of training and workshops, and based on it, we can formulate the revised training module, “said Director of Scert Goel Rishi Toi.
Academics have suggested to adopt an approach in which the teacher gets the freedom to choose a series of training modules every year.
Scerter is compiling a proposal based on their advice and will send it to the National Council of Education Research and Education (NCERT) for approval.
On the other hand, pandemics have thrown new areas for teacher training, according to Scerter.
Increased registration in state-run schools because the decline in income has led to the need for a revised training model.
“Pandemics have changed the need for teaching learning.
It has thrown new challenges, which, if handled properly, can cause opportunities.
So, we need to change the previous training mechanism, where all teachers are asked to take all the training.
There is a request and suggestion to make Training is more centered on the teacher in this case that the teachers can decide on the topic they want to train, “said a Scerter official.
The teacher said that in addition to this step, the Ministry of Education and Scerter must actively work on the lack of teachers at school.
Some teachers in fields such as Noah have claimed that, because of crisis staff, they have failed to improve education standards while many students drop out of school.
“Training and everything is fine, but what’s the point when a single teacher is forced to teach many subjects to several classes; sometimes, hold two classes together? All of this, because there is no enough teacher.
We have demanded that the government Appoint new teachers, but there is no action until now, “said a high school teacher in Block Nagina Noah.