Academic calendar, teacher training
SCERT seeks work report from DIETs
Srinagar: The J&K State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) on Wednesday convened a meeting with the Principals of all the District Institutes of Education and Training (DIET) to discuss the progress made academic calender and teachers’ training for the current session.
The meeting was convened in the backdrop of the instructions issued by the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi in accordance with the principles of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
In this regard, the SCERT has updated the academic calendar and the teacher training action plan to reflect these updates.
“This is done in an effort to discourage rote learning. Copies of the updated academic calendar and teacher training manual have already been distributed among all the DIETs,” the official handout reads.
Joint Director, SCERT, Mohammad Sharif Dedhar stressed on the importance of the assignment and said any laxity in adherence to the academic calendar would not be tolerated.
“The authorities want to see the assignments carried out in the most professional manner possible because they are fully aware of the costs associated with such exercises,” Dedhar said, adding that modules for the assigned task shall be completed within the briefest time possible.
He said the SCERT will extend all possible support to the personnel involved in the exercise.
“Once a program is concluded, make sure the goals are accomplished on the ground,” advised Dedhar. He said the SCERT will form a team to monitor the ground-level execution of the programs.
Meanwhile, a senior academic officer at the SCERT Dr. Rabia Naseem Mughal, demonstrated how to build a module of a program contained in the academic calendar in a thorough PowerPoint presentation as she outlined the way forward.
Meanwhile, the Education Research Survey and Assessment (ERSA) Wing’s five-day workshop on the creation of sample papers for classes 5 and 8 came to an end today.
According to Dr. Nazneen, Head of the ERSA Wing, “Learning outcomes (LO) have never been matched with the various competences and content load offered through the model papers.
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