The distinctive experience..Teachers Trining.. Swarnimsiddhi-12

The 21st century is the emblem of knowledge and scientific innovative mindsets..To enable the youth of Gujarat to be able to expand his adroit capabilities, in order to face the challenges posed by education, various institutions are active. G.C.E.R.T. [ Gujarat Council of Education Research and Training.] is the leading institute of the state Govt. that deals with qualitative expansion at primary and secondary level. The G.C.E.R.T. was originally named as State Education Bhavan, started in 1962, after Gujarat earned the status of a separate state. This institute was re named and re developed in 1988 as G.C.E.R.T. It has been the backbone of revolutionary and unique developments in the field of learning, which includes educational research, burden less education, pleasing curriculum, science and children fairs, children sports camps, youth education, physically handicapped and mentally challenged children’s education, reading camps etc.. These programs have reached students residing in the far off border areas.
Education and learning, generally synonyms with huge unattractive and enormous number of pages to be mugged up and tutor to be disinterestedly taking up the mugged up syllabus from the students, irrespective of the various levels of students capacity to absorb and understand. The role of teacher was considered to be of “know all”.
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The empathy and compassion of Hon. C.M. Shri Narendra Modiji, compelled the Gujarat Govt. to re invent the education policies, constructing them to be students friendly, which would project the student-teacher relationship to be much more qualitative.
Education is an ever going and ever growing process, where the teacher is as much a student, as the students themselves. It is a duty, of the teachers faculty to learn the new innovations and various different ways to deal with students of different capacities. Shri Modiji’s Govt. took upon themselves to create such healthy atmosphere where teachers take training to teach better and deal better with the aspiring students.
Keeping this principal in forefront, each teacher is imparted with the basic training, of twenty days in a year. In accordance with the content and methodology, the subjects like Child Psychology, Environment Learning, Mathematics, English, Science, Hindi, Gujarati are covered, on the base of prepared module. Then the Key Resource person, Resource Person and Masters Trainers are trained, to carry out the functions. Such training sessions are held twice in the year and it enriches the competence of the instructor. This operates as an inspiration, to the would be generation of tomorrow.
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The Gujarat Govt. does not stop at conveying this fundamental form of guidance, only. On the contarary, they have inspired to develop a novel plan, to enhance the ability of the tutors to deal with various levels of complexity faced by the students force. For this purpose, the special programme designed by Dr. Swaroop Rawal, the eminent educationist, has been adopted since September 2008. The course named as Dr. Swaroop Rawal Certificate Course, is a deep insight into the betterment of teaching, empowering the teachers to teaching life skills, which emphasizes education that help people think, feel, act and interact as individuals and as participating members of the society. Life skill education is a way to make children resilient, so they can confront the problems they face in life with strength. This programme also includes spiraling emotional understanding, empathy, understanding self, communication skills, creative thinking etc. which assesses the emotional health of young children and is especially designed for teachers of std 1-7. more complex skills like Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Problem Solving are enveloped for the older kids. Teachers are trained to deal with the stress and anger faced by students, young and old. They are instructed theory as well by the method. The course deals with the Learning Disabilities. Reflective Practice, ascertains both the process and the learning objectives could be clarified and evaluated by the teacher and the students to deepen the experience created. The Action-Research method is applied and followed.
The teachers have to collect data while teaching and write a paper each. The interesting news concerning the training programme are regularly posted on the blog. mig2008.blogspot.com
The programme was a hit from the beginning. At the end of first year, 17 trained tutors were were available and at the end of second year, 52 instructors were trained. In the first year,the district of Gandhinagar was covered and a 10 day, residential drama camp was co-organized by the Rajpur School. About 25 students, from 3 villages and 5 teachers participated. In the second year, the districts covered were Vadodara, Vadodara Co-operation, Bharuch, Panchmahal and Anand participated. The third begins in 2010. A team of 5 teacher-trainers plus Dr. Swaroop Rawal, [the chief facilitator] would address the 26 districts simultaneously.
The super success of this programme is due to the long-sightedness as well as profound vision by visionary C.M. Shri Modiji as well determined and devoted passionate efforts by Swaroop Rawal. Dr. Swaroop Rawal, needs no introduction. She has achieved a doctorate in Psychology from U.K. and a passionate dramatist, has incalculated Drama Therapy in the formation of this programme. Dr. Rawal, a former Miss India, has been actively involved with theatre and has first hand information of the same. These skill has been inculcated in the above mentioned programme. Her commitment towards this cause is noteworthy. Practicing as a lecturer in the subject could have fetched her tons of money, but Dr. Rawal’s zeal to impart her knowledge for betterment of the coming generation of Gujarat, takes her mission forward. Her motto is “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” The sky high vision and immense inspiration of Hon. C.M. Shri Modiji, inspires the soul and ignites the enthusiasm of dedicated person like Dr. Swaroop Rawal to serve the society.
When there is a will, there is a way..
Vande Gujarat.