Punjab Education Department begins capacity building webinars for teachers
Avneet Kaur
Jalandhar, June 19
To transform Covid-19 challenges into an opportunity, the Punjab Education Department, in another initiative, has launched a ‘Capacity Building’ programme for its officials and teaching staff. Under this, the department has started imparting training to the faculty members through webinars to equip them with the knowhow of the latest information technology applications.
The first training webinar was conducted today. As many as 495 officials, including District Education Officers (Secondary and Primary), Deputy District Education Officers (Secondary and Primary), In-charges and members of the Zila Sikhiya Sudhar Teams, DIET Principals, District Mentors (DM) and Block Mentors of different subjects participated in the webinar.
The resource persons for the webinar today were Karamjit Kaur, Principal, Government Senior Secondary School, Sahnewal (Ludhiana), Harmandeep Singh Mann, DM( Science, Sangrur), Jasvir Singh, DM( Science, Ludhiana), Gautam Gaurh, Acme Mittal and Gurmail Singh Saggu, who through their power point presentations made the participants aware about the features of the latest information technology applications like webinars, podcast, Zoom, Google forms etc.
They also shared tips on how to make the best use of these applications to hold meetings, prepare video/audio lessons, holding online classes as well as conducting quizzes. Meanwhile, the department has deputed an additional resource person at the district level to impart training to the teachers in their respective districts. “Though the pandemic Covid-19 has forced the closure of schools, the Education Department has virtually transformed the unprecedented challenge into an opportunity to tap advanced sources of information technology. Our dedicated teachers have been doing commendable job in making the ‘Ghar Baithe Sikhiya Programme’ successful,” said Education Secretary, Krishan Kumar.
“It is the need of the hour that all the officials and the teachers came out of their inhibitions regarding use of latest IT applications as the new innovative methodology would continue to be fruitful even after the pandemic is over,” he said.
