Teachers should strive to ensure that quality education is imparted to every student and it is essential that the students achieve the required education level. The Director -General (DG) of School Education and State project director, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), D Senthil Pandian said this while addressing the inaugural session of a three-day workshop on mathematical ability improvement on Monday.
The three-day workshop is being organised under joint aegis of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and the SSA.
Pandian said that the academic record of every child should be reviewed by the Chief Education Officer (CEO) and respective District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) and they would held responsible if the children are found weak in any subject.
He said that the works of the Block Resource Coordinators (BRC) and Cluster Resource Coordinators (CRC) should be monitored closely by the officials concerned.
The DG said that every DIET should identify training needs and inform the SCERT so that the training programmes are made accordingly. He said that vediography of training programmes should be made for effective monitoring.
The aim of the workshop is to increase in the knowledge of mathematics among the students of class I and II. The programme is being taken up under ‘Padhe Bharat, Badhe Bharat’ campaign of government of India.
The NCERT has devised a Mathematics learning kit for the purpose. It has also prepared a manual for usage of the kit. The department has recruited 50 master trainers who would teach the use of kit and help the students in understanding mathematics in a play way method.
In the workshop the resource persons of State Council of Education Research and Training (SCERT), BRC, CRC, representatives of DIET, master trainers and teachers are participating. The workshop was attended by additional secretary school education Ranjna, Additional Project Director SSA, Mukul Kumar Sati, advisor of NCERT, Anchal Arora, teacher fellow, Chavvi Kataria, Assistant Professor of Regional Institute of Education (RIE), Odisha, Saurav Kapoor and Assistant Professor, Delhi University, Sunita Mishra.