The JSPl Foundation, Angul organised a seven-day training programme in collaboration with the district Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan for the Community Teachers of peripheral vernacular medium schools that ended on Wednesday.
The programme, aimed to ensure effective classroom teaching, witnessed active participation of 87 Community Teachers. District Education Officer Sarbeswar Behera encouraged the teachers to give their best to ensure quality education in their schools.
JSPl HR VP Saroj Kumar Mahapatra said, “If all the 87 teachers who underwent this programme give their best efforts to develop an effective, joyful and meaningful learning environment side by side a good student-teacher relationship then only its objective will be achieved.”
JSPl CSR&R AVP SK Sharma said the programme would help the community teachers enhance their teaching skills in tune with the prescribed curriculum of the Board of Secondary Education.
The JSPl’s initiative of community teachers was started in 2008. A total of 96 teaching and nonteaching staffs are engaged under this programme to enhance student-teacher ratio in the schools.
“Community Teachers in the vernacular medium Schools is a major initiative by JSPl to supplement the efforts of the State Government to reduce the dropout rate and improve quality education,” said JSPl Executive Director Dinesh Kumar Saraogi.