To ensure efficient running of training programmes for teachers to bring qualitative improvement in the standard of education in Punjab’s Government schools, State Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema on Thursday held a marathon meeting with all District Education and Training Institutions (DIETs), principals of Government in-service training centers, senior lecturers and master resource persons (MRP).
The purpose of the meeting was to invite suggestions from the field for further improving the teacher training programme during new academic session.
“Two separate committees would be formed for the purpose of making regulations for DIET funds and pondering over ETT syllabi. Experts from academic field would be included in the committee regarding syllabi,” he said.
Cheema said that consideration would also be given towards forming a separate cadre of DIETs.
He said that the subject experts of the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) were directed to take suggestions from the field for amendments in the books.
Cheema said that a projector and a computer would be given to all the DIETs and GISTs in order to make sure that the innovative methodologies are made part of the teacher training programme.
The Minister, earlier addressing the meeting, said that whereas on one hand the department is chalking out induction training programme for newly recruited teachers, on the other hand, the teachers with poor results would also be provided in service training for which a programme has been chalked out.
SCERT director Sukhdev Singh Kahlon and Deputy Director Dr Ginni Duggal informed that an e-portal has been made operational to maintain better co-ordination between the DIETs at national level which would also ensure online supervision of DIETs.