Four-day National Initiative for School Heads and Teachers Holistic Advancement (NISHTHA) integrated teachers training for key resource persons (KRPs) and state resource persons (SRPs) of Nagaland got underway Tuesday, at AIDA Centre, Don Bosco Dimapur.
The training programme has been organized by NCERT, New Delhi in collaboration with SCERT, Samagra Shiksha and department of School Education.
At the programme, welcome address was delivered by SCERT Nagaland director T Sekhose where he asserted that the national curriculum framework 2005, has rightly pointed out that in service, teachers’ training has to be a process where skills, knowledge and other requirements that a teacher required have to be constant and inputs should be given.
Highlighting the recognition by MHRD, about the importance of an integrated approach, Sekhose said that the government of India has recognized the importance of a stakeholders, teachers, functionaries, principal and people who were instrumental in ushering quality education. He added that they are all brought on one common platform so that the needful are done.
Sekhose also reiterated that earlier initiatives have mostly been confined to specific categories but he believes that the integrated approach was going to be extremely important and beneficial.
He also maintained that in Nagaland the student and teacher ratio was far above the national average. Furthermore, Sekhose informed that the participants for the training programme will be oriented to the needs of Samagra programme, after which they will be assigned the role of functioning as resource of state group and work on orienting a total population of seventeen thousand teachers. The entire assignment should be completed by March 31, 2020 and for which he informed that the first phase of training will start from last week of January.
Briefing about the different modalities of NISHTHA, National NCERT, New Delhi department of Education Institute Aesthetic professor Jyotsha Tiwari, mentioned that NISHTHA is a capacity building programme for “Improving quality of school education through integrated teacher training”. It aims to build competencies among all the teachers and school principals at the elementary stage.
The functionaries (at the state, district, block, cluster level) shall be trained in an integrated manner on learning outcomes, school based assessment, learner – centred pedagogy, new initiatives in education, addressing diverse needs of children through multiple pedagogies, etc. This will be organized by constituting National Resource Groups (NRGs) and State Resource Groups (SRGs) at the national and the state level who will be training 42 lakhs teachers subsequently.
Resource person of the training programme were National NCERT, New Delhi department of Education Institute Aesthetic professor Jyotsha Tiwari, department of Education for Groups with Special Needs, NCERT New Delhi Dr Bharti Kaushik and NERIR, NCERT Shillong assistant professor, Arnab Sen.
The programme further followed training and interactive sessions. The four-day training programme will culminate on December 20.