IIM module now in schools

Top Indian Business school techniques are likely to find their way to government schools across the country. And what?s more, to ensure that teachers can effectively use those skills, teachers will be put through an intensive training module designed by the B schools.

Updated on: Feb 11, 2006, 13:34:00 IST

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Top Indian Business school techniques are likely to find their way to government schools across the country. And what’s more, to ensure that teachers can effectively use those skills, teachers will be put through an intensive training module designed by the B schools.

The HRD Ministry is asking not just business schools but also some of the country’s premier universities to pitch in to upgrade teacher training modules to ensure that students in government schools read underprivileged children get better quality education.

The ministry has already short listed Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad), Administrative Staff College of India (Hyderabad), the University of Delhi and the Jamia Millia Islamia as the first four institutions to be roped in for the “new, improved teacher training project”.

Ministry sources said the plan was to get the country’s best educational institutions to design an all new module for teacher training which in turn can be implemented through teacher training programmes regularly offered by all State Councils for Educational Research and Training.

At the conference of the directors of SCERTs on Thursday chaired by Secretary Elementary Education, Kumud Bansal, participants agreed to tackle the teacher training issue on a war footing. This would effectively change the entire method and syllabus of training provided to government school teachers and is consequently expected to reflect in their classroom manner, government sources said.

Participants at the meeting on Thursday also agreed to re-assert the original mandate of District Institutes of Education and Training (DIET) by re-involving them in action research and functioning as evaluation centers for teacher training programmes.

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Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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