Ludhiana, June 4
A four-day workshop on ‘Empowerment of teachers in personality development and quality education’ concluded at Kundan Vidya
Mandir, Civil Lines, here today.
In the morning session of the seminar, representatives of 11 groups of teachers discussed various topics, including various steps, which could be taken to help teachers become good role models, the need to impart education to parents. There was also a session which involved enacting life stories of great personalities.
In the second session, Ms Raveena Gandhi discussed the use of interactive walls, crosswords, flash cards, charts, wall magazines, mail boxes, tackle boxes and suggestion boxes to be used as aids while teaching primary and middle section students.
Members of the staff also presented papers on the occasion. Ms Sonia Verma spoke on ‘Role of teachers as
counsellors’, Ms Kalpana Sharma delivered a speech on ‘Role of modern technology’, Ms Baljinder Kaur spoke on ‘Role of modern management techniques in modern education’ and Ms Jaspal Pannu talked about ‘Role of teachers and parents together for imparting value education’.
Dr Mulk Raj
Chilana, director of the programme, explained the concept of quality education. He emphasised upon emotional quotient, which was a measure of the emotional stability and social adjustment and held much significance in life.
Speaking of the duties of parents and teachers, Dr Chilana said that they should help children discover their interests, kindle their imagination and guide their growth. Children should neither be forced to follow any type of development task nor be bullied to follow the prescribed standards of reading, writing, memorising and social
behaviour, he said.
The resource person, Ms Raveena Gandhi, dwelt on developing writing skills and a team of teachers from Bhartiya Vidya Mandir explained with the help of illustrations the use of computers in effective learning.
Dr
D.J. Singh, Deputy Director, Punjab Police Academy, Phillaur, was the chief guest. Dr Lajpat
Rai, member of the school management committee and Ms I.Kumar, Principal, were also present on the occasion.