While students enjoy summer vacations, over 36,000 teachers working at Delhi government schools will be trained to enhance their skills.
On Tuesday, the government kick-started a five-week-long training programme conducted by the SCERT. The training is a capacity building exercise being attended by 26,000 Trained Graduate Teachers (TGTs) and 10,000 Post Graduate Teachers (PGTs).
Various venues
The government informed that each batch of TGTs will be trained over the course of four days in six cycles at 27 venues across the city. Similarly, PGTs will be trained over five days in four cycles at 45 venues.
“This round of training is the first of many in-service training capacity building exercises scheduled to be held over the year. However, this one is the most extensive among them, as it’s being conducted during the summer break,” said a government official.
The official said training sessions have been planned in a way that teachers are seated in small groups and facilitators conduct the modules through group activities. The teachers are encouraged to think originally and promote a culture of peer-learning.
“The concept of group-based learning has been introduced to teacher training so that the technique percolates to classrooms of Delhi government schools as well,” said the official.
For TGTs, the programme focuses on orienting teachers to use pedagogy that will enable all children to achieve learning outcomes envisioned by the government.
For PGTs, the focus would be to deepen the understanding and process of transaction of different concepts that are part of the syllabus for Classes XI and XII.
