Training programme for newly recruited school heads started

Jalandhar, July 1

With an aim to develop motivational leadership qualities among the newly recruited school heads, the Education Department, in collaboration with the Indian School of Business (ISB), has started an online five-day training programme.

As many as 989 headmasters, including 317 recruited under the Rashtriya Madhymik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), will be given training in various batches. In the first batch (from June 29 to July 3), 95 head masters are being trained. The training will continue throughout July.

Training sessions would be conducted by experts, including Arushi Jain, ISB; Chanderashekhar Sripada, ISB; M Kanchan, Rajeshwar Upadhayay, director, Par Excellence Leadership Solutions Pvt Ltd; Gulshan Sharma, Director-General, ICSI; Sarada Chandrasekaran, academic director and head of Whitefield Global School, Banglore; Profs Doreswamy Nandkishore, Shweta Rajput, Amita Chakraborty, Isha Mahajan, Pranav Garimala and Radhika Rao.

The topics to be covered include ‘Introduction about using online portal and training’, ‘Challenges and opportunities, management principles and their applicability to school level management’ and ‘Theories of motivation, group behaviour, pedagogy and transformational leadership’. The experts would also share with school heads tips on managing different academic as well as conducive curricular activities to ensure all-round personality development of students.

“In the present crisis due to the pandemic, as schools are closed, it is important to keep the students updated with the academic syllabus and engaged them in other extracurricular activities to ensure overall personality development,” said Krishan Kumar, the Secretary of the Education Department, adding that the training had been started to turn the challenges of posed by the crisis into opportunities.

The programme aims at developing motivational and leadership qualities among the school heads and so they have been asked to devise innovative techniques and handle the testing times with professional approach, he said.

Online events to mark birth anniv of Guru Tegh Bahadur’s

In a letter addressed to all District Education Officers (DEOs), nodal officers and school heads, the State Council of Educational Research and Training on Wednesday, issued a set of guidelines for the teachers, DEOs on organising online cultural events for students of government schools to mark the 400th birth anniversary of Guru Tegh Bahadur.

Activities planned by the department include ‘Shabad gayan’, poetry recitation, declamation contests, instrument singing, poster making, painting, slogan writing, creative writing and turban-tying competitions and other events based on the teachings and the life of ninth Sikh Guru. — OC