Prepare students for achieving 'Mission Shat Pratishat', teachers told

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 8

The Education Secretary, Krishan Kumar, while addressing a virtual meeting with the District Education Officers, school heads, block nodal officers, mentors of different subjects, directed them to make the parents aware about the progress of their wards in the pre-board examinations so that they could be mobilised for achieving ‘Mission Shat Pratishat’ during the two-day parent-teacher meet ( PTM) scheduled on March 8 and 9 in all middle, high and senior secondary schools across the state.

To ensure meticulous adherence to the Covid-19 precautions, Krishan Kumar also asked the education officers to adopt innovative practices such as micro-planning, extra classes and morning wake-up calls for achieving Mission Shat Pratishat.

“The PTM is the best opportunity to display various projects as well as innovative activities launched by the department for sprucing up infrastructural facilities and quality in teaching-learning at government schools. The projects include smart schools, smart class rooms, bala work, educational parks, computer labs, science labs, language labs, sohna furniture, civil works, playgrounds, Word of the Day, Library Langar, English Booster Clubs, Buddy Groups, Each One, Ask One, Each One, Bring One, optimum utilisation of latest digital applications including Punjab Educare App. Concerted and dedicated efforts should be taken up by the schoolteachers to transform the unprecedented challenges posed by the pandemic into an opportunity.

New vistas of digital education launched during the lockdown to reach out to the students via TV, radio, WhatsApp, YouTube and Google classrooms should be explored more to make the “Ghar Baithe Sikhiya” programme successful”, Kumar further added.