In a bid to prepare the teachers on issues like gender, child rights and social sensitization, the UT Administration is organising a special five days training session.
Aimed at equipping teachers with knowledge of such sensitive issues, the training programme will be held at Senior Citizen Home in Sector 43 here from September 2 to 6.
The Administration has roped in prominent experts from Panjab University, Government. Medical College and Hospital Sector 32 Department of Psychiatry, Chandigarh State AIDS control society and other institutions to conduct the training session.
During the inaugural session on Monday, Rajesh Jogpal informed about the objectives of the training
programme to the participants and told that the program is a first of its kind here and will cover all gender, child rights and social sensitization issues.
This session will help teachers to teach the students effectively about such issues.
The divisive factors in Indian society like caste, religion, class, gender, language and region remedies was discussed on the first day. On the first session Dr Rajesh Gill from Department of Sociology clarified the
divisive factors in Indian Society.
later, Professor Rajiv lochan, Professor Department of History PU took the session on the use of expired ideas like caste as the organising principle of a large society.
Other sessions included concept of life skills, emotional intelligence among teachers and its functional impact on self and as a role model, convergence with step holders.
Overall, all the sessions of first day were interactive and all the queries raised by the participants were clarified by all speakers, informed Jogpal.
The UT Administration has initiated a number of special training programmes to equip the teachers in various skills to provide quality education to the students in the union territory of Chandigarh.