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VSAT
enabled training for primary teachers launched
Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:43:34 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
A VSAT-enabled teachers' training programme was launched in nine
cities across the country Friday to impart conceptual clarity in
key areas of primary school teaching.
The cities are Noida, Delhi, Patna, Guwahati, Bhubaneswar,
Chennai, Hyderabad, Bhopal and Jaipur.
The five-day module, Transformational Teacher Training Programme,
has experts sitting in studios in Chennai training teachers across
the country through an interactive two-way VSAT technology that
makes the programme participatory.
Teachers can conduct verbal exchange with their long-distance
trainers in their satellite classrooms.
The module has been conceived by Macmillan Publishers in
partnership with Vidya Bhavan Society and the Delhi-based Everonn
Education Limited.
The programme compels the participants to question established
facts in the light of new evidences and thus opens the mind to
myriad ideas of making the classroom engaging and lively, a
statement released by Macmillan, one of the biggest publishers of
academic texts in the country, said Friday.
The key feature of the programme is its child-centric "approach
wherein the innate potential of the child is recognised and a
methodology evolved to strengthen and build on it so that
knowledge is constructed through a process of questioning,
reasoning and making informed inferences - and not just by
accepting textual information as sacrosanct facts".
The programme is being delivered by a team of experienced teachers
and trainers, who through their interaction with teachers over
several years have designed a very effective and transformational
teachers' training programme.
The panel includes Rama Kant Agnihotri, professor of linguistics
at the University of Delhi, H.K. Dewan, a particle physics
scientist, Kamal Mahendroo, a member of the People's Science
Movement, A.L. Khanna, a former reader in English, and Rajni
Dwivedi, a textbook developer for various state boards.
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