Srinagar, Jul 05 (KNS): A three day consultative module design conference of Master Trainers of Jammu and Kashmir concluded at the Directorate of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan at Srinagar. The conference was attended by forty five Master Trainers from all over the State. Farooq Ahmad Shah, Secretary Education, J&K was the chief guest at the concluding function.
The conference of Master Trainers was organized for upgrading the training module for the training of over 90000 teachers of the State during 2017-18. State Project Director, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Saugat Biswas, briefed the Secretary Education about the massive training programme organized for in-service teachers of the State during 2016-17. The State had planned the training programme in cascade mode and organized the training in collaboration with Simple Education Foundation, New Delhi with advise from NCERT, Jammu University and Colleges of Education, SIEs of the State. The training programme was rolled out at the Zonal/Bi-zonal level and concluded as per a meticulously planned schedule. Eventually the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) acknowledged it to be one of the best practices in the country.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp ChannelBiswas announced that in the current year there would be two kinds of refresher trainings, one on pedagogy for middle school teachers and the other for primary teachers on activity based learning to be facilitated by PRATHAM. The consultative workshop dealt with both the trainings.
In his concluding remarks Farooq Shah, Secretary School Education, J&K emphasized the need and importance of the refresher trainings for Middle and Primary school teachers. The quality of education imparted to the students of the government schools can be raised only when the teachers will be capacity enabled and given enough motivation and support for teaching in the schools with innovative methods he added. He urged the Master Trainers to remain focused on the trainings of the teachers and monitor that the trainings show results at the classroom level. He appreciated the efforts put in by the Master Trainers, Resource Persons who worked with high dedication and completed the refresher trainings of an unprecedented 85,000 plus teachers in 2016-17. He distributed certificates of appreciation to all the Master Trainers as recognition of their accomplishment. (KNS)