With the aim of improving discipline, cleanliness and conduct of students in Government schools, the Education Department has been conducting sessions called let’s Share with around
1,000 principals under the Directorate of Education (DoE) to discuss the importance of right leadership.
“In the sessions, principals, who have been running their schools comparatively well, will share their views on how with limited resources, schools can be optimised. These views are then shared with all principals,” said Director of Education Padmini Singla, who added that an international firm, along with NGOs, has been roped in to train principals on how to run a school. This is the second part of the DoE’s tristructured development model.
According to Singla, principals are the linchpins of educational reform. “A good principal can transform a school completely and within given resources, impart quality education. However, if a principal is not motivated enough to do anything, then the school suffers along with education. Thus, it is important that principals are trained and motivated on how to manage a school,” said Singla.
last month was the first phase of this programme to train teachers under the Directorate of Education. Singla explained, “Principals came together and thought of innovative ideas to make their schools more safe, disciplined and clean. We asked principals to voluntary give in cutting-edge ideas that can work with the limited resources we have. We got a total of around 80 entries from the principals on what best can be done. 10 entries were shortlisted and handed to all the principals present so that they could practice the same in their schools.”
An NGO called Create-Net is helping DoE train principals as well. They are starting with 100 principals, who will be divided in groups of 10 each. Each group will have one resource person and the group will be heterogeneous.