The Nagaland Board of School Education in collaboration with the Trinity College, London conducted the third annual teachers training programme in English communication skills from March 11-12 at NBSE office conference hall, Kohima.
Resource persons at the training were Dr. John Bentley, Trinity Academic Support Specialist, India and Soma Podder, Trinity faculty, India.
The training focused on orienting teachers to prepare students for Trinity College’s Graded Exam in Spoken English (GESE) as well as on classroom management and ways to integrate communication skills in classrooms.
GESE exams, which are highly sought-after qualification with international validity, which is being accepted for entry into university throughout Europe and the US, has a unique form of assessments, focusing on 1-1 interactions between the examiner and the examinee with graded approach to language acquisition.
In the last two years, students of Nagaland who took this exam have a record 100% pass percentage.