State Government is likely to open coaching centres in every district to provide career guidance and assistance to students seeking admission in engineering and medical institutions as well as those aspiring for job soon after completing studies. Such centres in each districts is likely to come up in the current financial year.
“We have prepared the proposal and have asked all respective district officials to identify institutions for those centres. We are receiving suggestions from districts. And we need a pool of teachers for each subject to teach at the centres,” said Secretary, Human Resource Development, Aradhana Patnaik.
Patnaik was addressing a group of master trainers on the concluding day of a 10-day workshop organized for teachers of government schools who have been equipped with skills necessary to help students in the preparation for medical and engineering competitive examinations. The trainers will impart training to other teachers as well. The programme will be extended to other districts in later phases, said Patanaik.
The Secretary appealed teachers to change their attitude and adjust their focus to benefit students’ part of the education system instead of going by the conventional approach of focusing on selected few in a class.
“Education should be such all should be involved. Teachers must focus on backbenchers as they need more attention compared to those who are good students,” added Patnaik.
Notably, around 40 teachers were selected for the workshop where training was
provided by Divisional Commissioner Ranchi, KK Khandelwal; Secretary to Chief Minister, Sunil Barnwal; Deputy Commissioner, Ranchi, Manoj Kumar; Additional Director General in Jharkhand Police, Niraj Kumar Sinha and renowned academicians of all branches of science.
The workshop was inaugurated on May 21 and classes had begun on May 22.
Significantly, Chairman of Jharkhand Academic Council, Anand Bhushan expressed that the council transcended its sphere and played an active part with HRD in improving standard of teaching in government schools. The JAC Chairman apprised the teacher on the concluding day about the rational for organizing the special workshop.
“The department has made all efforts to bring back the lost glory of teachers and that will be restored only when teachers will work with sincerity. Your (teachers) one fault is scrutinized very closely by society,” maintained Bhushan.
Meanwhile, the JAC Chairman also emphasised on taking black sheep among the teaching fraternity to task and advocated a strict penalty system for erring lot who throw spanner in the noble work of improving teaching standards and do not perform duty entrusted on them.
“Our heads hang in shame because of one per cent teachers. They are anti-teachers and we need to target them and introduce the system of reward and punishment,” asserted the JAC Chairman.
The workshop ended with sharing of experiences by teachers who were provided training however most of them requested for planning the exercise in advance to let others also take benefit of the benign effort of HRD and JAC.