Avelu Ruho speaking at the block level teachers training on use of TLM for ECCE in Kohima on October 31. (Morung Photo)
Our Correspondent
Kohima | October 31
A two-day Block level teachers training on use of Teachers Learning Materials (TLM) for Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE) and Fundamental Literacy & Numeracy (FLN) for Educational Block Resource Centre (EBRC) Lhisemia Khel Block, Kohima commenced in the Morung Hall of Directorate of School Education on October 31.
A total of 140 teachers from 35 primary schools under EBRC L Khel, Kohima are attending the training being conducted under Samagra Shiksha Nagaland. It will conclude on November 1.
Addressing the trainees during the inaugural session, Joint Secretary School Education and Deputy Project Director, NECTAR, Avelu Ruho said that teachers are nation builders because every citizen comes through a classroom and teachers play a major role in moulding them.
For every child, the teacher is their hero, she said, adding that ‘government teachers as parents should always give their best to impart the best quality education to the students of their school because every parent wants their children to attain the best education.’
“We must respect the desire and aspirations of the parents of the children enrolled in government schools, who cannot afford to send their wards to private schools,” she said.
There are so many wrongs in government schools, the activities that are being carried out to make the government schools better, but since the education department has been lagging behind for so many years things cannot change overnight, she said.
In this, she said that NECTAR (Nagaland: Enhancing Classroom Teaching and Resources) is one such project towards augmenting government schools in the State.
Asking the teachers to focus on the positive thing so as to bring the required change in quality education, she emphasized on a good educational foundation at the primary level as it is the most important stage of a child’s life.
Ruho hoped that such training would help improve the use of TLM and help teachers to make classroom teaching more interesting and enticing for children so as to bring about qualitative change in the education system.
Further, she challenged the government teachers posted in the state capital to make efforts to bring changes and transformation in the government schools as models for the rest of the state.
Nagaland to implement new NEP from next session
Coordinator EBRC L Khel Block and Project Coordinator NECTAR, Visato Koso said that Nagaland will be implementing the new National Education Policy (NEP) 2022 from the next academic session and therefore the training is being conducted throughout the State.
NEP 2020 lays emphasis on the creative potentials of every individual based on the principles that education must not only develop the cognitive capacities of literacy and numeracy but also the critical thinking and problem solving on social, ethical and emotional capacities as well.
NEP 2020 stresses that teachers be the centre of fundamental reforms of the society, and therefore much importance is being given to teachers, he said.
