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Srinagar May 19: The Director School Education Kashmir (DSEK) Dr G N Itoo on Monday said that around 17000 teachers were untrained in the School Education Department (SED).
Itoo was talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function organised at Institute of Advance Studies in Education (IASE) M A road Srinagar to release the 4-C lesson planning for teachers. The four Cs include – Consider, Co-construct, Clarify and Consolidate. All these Cs are aligned with 21st century teaching skills.
Meanwhile G N Itoo said the department is training all the left out untrained teachers in a phased manner.
“We have around 17,000 teachers who are yet to get B.Ed. training. But because we are going in a phase-wise manner, we are not only collaborating with this college (IASE) because we depute 100 people (teachers) per year. We have already signed an agreement with IGNOU,” he said.
Itoo said Kashmir University is also offering B.Ed. course in distance mode as it was slightly difficult to leave so many teachers in regular mode for B.Ed. course. “Teachers will have to be kept in the classroom too. But we will prefer distance mode, because the batches are also big there, and teachers have to come only for contact courses.
The process is going on and in the coming days, this will be our target to provide training to all teachers as early as possible,” Itoo said.
He said the department should be in a position to train all the teachers who are yet to take B.Ed. training.
“The benefit of this will not only be in our classroom, but also in our teaching fraternity for their exposure and confidence level,” he said.
He said the department will try its best to ensure that all the teachers are covered as early as possible.
When asked teachers deputed for B.Ed course, were not regularly attending classes in IASE, G N Itoo said that all the teachers deputed here have to attend the classes.
“Once they come here, they have to attend classes. This time we ensured that teachers have full attendance as we have introduced biometric attendance for them here at the college. I have personally monitored that each and every teacher is relieved on time,” Itoo said.
He said the teachers report in college on time.
“We have been in regular touch with the Principal of this college. They have been giving us feedback about the teachers,” Itoo said.
He said this year there has been very encouraging attendance bearing few cases where there are some health issues.
“The rest of the teachers have been regularly attending this college,” he said.(Agencies )
