Special coaching and weekend tests for Teachers

Updated on: Monday, September 03, 2012

With less than one per cent of teachers clearing the teacher eligibility test (TET), several private schools have planned to conduct special evening coaching classes and periodical weekend tests for their teachers who didn’t pass the TET.

The Teachers’ Recruitment Board had conducted an eligibility test in which over seven lakh teachers participated, but less than one per cent cleared it.

Worried about the poor performance of teachers, private matriculation schools have planned to conduct special classes for their teachers.

“We plan to rope in senior college professors and subject experts for our teachers. They need some guidance to clear the test.

Our teachers can perform well in any kind of situation but as they had little time to prepare, their performance went down,” an administrator of a private matriculation school said.

The correspondent of another reputed school said teachers took the test easy which led to this debacle.

“Teachers question us whether they will get any incentive if they pass the test. They say if it doesn’t, it’s not worth taking.

We can test their teaching skills rather than subject knowledge as the present education system encourages only rote learning, for which a teacher needs no knowledge of the subject,” the correspondent said.

Special coaching and weekend tests for Teachers

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