MANISH GUPTA
Ranchi, Oct 27: The Jharkhand government on Thursday chalked out a detailed blueprint to transform principals and teachers of 80 model schools in the state as changemakers to improve the educational standards of the government schools.
“Under the directions of Chief Minister Hemant Soren, efforts are being made to provide quality education to the children of the government schools that is at par with the educational standards of the private schools,” the CM’s office said in a statement.
To help secure this, the Azim Premji Foundation will provide training to headmasters and teachers of the model schools. The foundation will help in building the capacity of the principals and teachers to secure better and quality education of the children.
“Through the ambitious Adarsh Vidyalaya Program, the government is giving necessary impetus to the secondary and higher secondary level of education and is all set to project teachers of these institutions as “Changemakers” of the society,” it said.
In this regard a comprehensive action plan has been prepared through which special attention is to be given to subjects like English, Science, Mathematics, Social Science and Hindi in the due course of training of the teachers.
The Department of School Education and Literacy will collaborate with the Foundation to conceptualise and conduct the capacity building program for Adarsh Vidyalayas’ headmasters, DIET faculty, subject specific master trainers and other key stakeholders.
The program will provide training through a series of workshops for around 4,000 model schools in the state with an aim to create an effective ecosystem.
In the first phase, the Foundation has designed a 10-month comprehensive training program with the principals of 80 schools identified as “Changemakers” to develop a better vision for the schools, raising the standards of education, enhancement of leadership skills so as to provide quality education to the children, development of learning culture, and creation of learning environment, among others.
It is to be noted that the principals and teachers of these schools are also receiving their training from eminent institutions like the IIMs.
In addition to the 10-month training, capacity building workshops for stakeholders have been planned in the coming months. The subject experts teaching at secondary and senior secondary level will be identified.
Comprehensive capacity building programme will be organized for 150 DIET faculties, which will include visualisation and job description of the DIETs. Under this scheme, a total of three workshops will be organised every five days. These workshops will be conducted with an aim to develop the capacity of 200 subject specific master trainers of English, Science, Mathematics, Social Science, Hindi and Science.
