Monday, November 2, 2009

HRD Department prepares training for the Primary Teachers during the winter break

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Gangtok: As a part of the mission of bringing about quality in education which is Hon’ble Chief Minister’s vision and dream and the emphasis of the entire HRD Department on training of teachers, a five day training programme on spoken English and Mathematics for Resource Persons was held at State Institute of Education w.e.f 26.10.09 to 30.10.09The programme was conducted by State Institute of Education, HRDD. The prime objective of the programme was to prepare Resource Persons in English and Mathematics to train Primary Teachers. Programme began with an interactive session during which Secretary HRDD, Director, Technical Education and Training and Joint Director SIE highlighted the need and importance of the programme and discussed various other related issues pertaining to the present scenario of primary education and ways and means to bring about quality in the primary education in Sikkim. Secretary also briefed the trainees about their role and responsibility ahead.The participants were mainly PGT’s and GT’s of English and Mathematics.These Resource Persons will in turn be training primary teachers in spoken English and basic Mathematics during an intensive course for a period of forty two days in forthcoming winter break.

Forty Two participants attended the training. The key resource Persons were faculty from SIE. In these five days Teachers of English were subjected to intensive session of phonetics and spoken English, where as teachers of Mathematics identified hard spots at primary level and prepared modules and teaching aids to teach these hardspots.On 30th Oct. the training ended with a valedictory programme where teachers demonstrated some of the activities designed during the training. Secretary HRD once again interacted with the teachers’ and discussed various aspects with regard to the primary teachers’ training during winters.

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