To prepare State’s school teachers for emerging challenges of cyber age besides to equip them with new educational tools, Punjab Education Department on Wednesday finalised a major re-training programme of over 1,01,983 teachers.
The programme was finalised in the meeting of State Advisory Committee of Education Department presided over by Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema wherein members of Punjab legislative Assembly Chatin Singh Samao, Joginder Singh Jindu and Sukhjit Kaur Shahi, besides experts from education, psychology, sociology and teaching techniques department shared their notes for new training modules.
Focussing on teachers’ re-training to keep a pace with modern day requirements, Cheema said that it was matter of great regret that some teachers have not got any training after getting recruited 20-30 years ago.“If Punjab has to keep pace with the developing economies like USA, Canada, Australia, it would have to focus on re-training its teachers with new educational tools,” he said.
Cheema asked the department to finalise a training schedule of over one lakh teachers in a phased manner besides ensuring that normal teaching work of students especially in the rural areas do not suffer.Participating in the debate, the members of SAC said that in the age of internet and connectivity of every village with 4G connection, we should make optimum utilisation of new technology and training programme should be both online and offline.
They opined that while structuring their training modules and training kits, the focus should be on improving the psychological makeup of students and redrafting the training kits according to the modern teaching tools.