Training programme for Teachers to improve quality of education

Updated on: Wednesday, August 22, 2012

In its effort to improve the quality of education in the state-run schools, the Haryana government announced a special training programme for 68,000 teachers.

The training programme for the in-service teachers would commence from the first week of September and each session would be of 20 days, Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal said here. An amount of over Rs 20.48 crore had been approved for the project, the minister said.

In addition, 1,665 recently recruited science and maths teachers have already received training under the induction programme, she said. Bhukkal said that a 12-days training programme for 5,784 Head Teachers had also been approved and a sum of Rs 115.68 lakh would be utilised on the project.

Adopting innovative techniques of teaching subjects like maths and science, the Haryana government has launched the new "building as learning" programme in schools of Sirsa district.

Under this programme, walls, doors, fans, toilets, computer room and various such places would be painted with different educative models within the school premises.

The doors of the school building would be used as protractor which would help the students in better understanding of geometry and angle-related concepts.

He said that under the scheme, digital classrooms would be set up in 71 schools of the district for building as learning programme, 20 schools have been chosen out of these 71 schools.

The programme would be initially launched in two schools of Sirsa district as a pilot project, an official spokesman said. Later under the Backward Region Grant-in-aid Scheme, this programme would be started in 20 Government schools of the district by spending an amount of Rs 60 lakh.

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