Imparting training to Edu Dept officials vital: Radheshyam
Source: The Sangai Express / DIPR

Imphal, November 17 2017: Education is a need for every person to grow and develop.

For an organisation to grow, the human resource needs to be updated.

For this, training of personnel of Education Department, specially the teacher is a must and the most important is to implement the knowledge received by them to improve the quality of education, asserted Education Minister Thokchom Radheshyam Singh.

He was inaugurating a 10-Day Training on School Leadership organised by the Directorate of State Council of Educational and Research Training (SCERT) in collaboration with SSA, RMSA, Directorate of Education (S) and National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) at the Multipurpose Hall, SCERT, Lamphelpat today.

He said that knowledge received from the training programme should be used to transform the existing educational system in a positive direction.

He appealed to the school heads to utilise the best of training for the development and betterment of the education of Manipur instead of keeping it to oneself.

He also requested the teachers to love and regard their profession.

Stressing the importance of imparting training, he said that the vision of the training is to develop leaders and new generations and transform schools so that every child receives quality education and every school excels in imparting education.

He maintained that the vision of the training is to enhance leadership capability at school level for institutional building to deliver quality education.

Elaborating the essence of leaders and leadership, he said that the best leaders are those who utilise the best out of the limited resource.

The Education Minister also requested the teachers to set a target and identify the students who are bright and weak to make them better and achieve higher goals in their life.

He expressed the need to introduce feedback in the education system to facilitate teaching-learning process.

Feedback will enable one to identify the weakness and strength, giving a chance to improve and develop, he observed.

Director, Education (S) Th Kirankumar Singh said that the main focus of the Education Department is to improve the education system of the State.

He said that teachers should have details of their respective schools and regulate the guidelines honestly.

Those teachers participating in the training on School Leadership will be made the ambassadors to other schools to expand the knowledge received from the training, he added.

Asst Professor, NUEPA, Dr N Mythili said that six key areas perspective on school leadership, developing self, transforming teaching-learning process, building and leading teams, leading innovations and leading partnerships will be the main topic of the training.

Director, SCERT Dr M Meenakumari Devi, Additional State Project Director SSA Manipur T Phullen Meetei, principals, heads of schools and teachers attended the function.

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