An eight-day long workshop for preparing teaching modules to improve quality of education in the Government schools of State started here on Tuesday. In the workshop training modules would be prepared for teachers of Government schools.
In the workshop for class I to VI subjects like language, mathematics and sanitation would be emphasised while for class VI to VIII, mathematics, science and sanitation would be incorporated for increasing the quality of education. After finalising the training modules the chief resource persons at State level, resource person at DIET level and teachers at block level would be trained on these modules.
Speaking on the occasion, Additional project Director Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Mukul Kumar Sati said that the special emphasis should be laid in the preparation of teacher’s diary. He said that the teachers should mention the efforts done by them for development of schools and corrective measures they adopted for weak students in their teacher’s dairy. He suggested that DIETs should conduct research on effect of training on class room teaching. Sati added that the resource persons doing better work would be felicitated by the department.
The trainees suggested that the department should make arrangements for providing tools used in mathematics and science training. They were of the opinion that monitoring of training should be done at the level of State.
The State Project Director SSA, D Senthil Pandian has said that the preparation of the teaching modules should be done after proper assessment of the weakness and requirement of students. Taking a strong exception of absenteeism in such workshops, he has ordered that the annual increment and promotion of such absentee teachers be stopped. More than 65 participants from SCERT, DIET, NGOs, and different schools were involved in the deliberations.