Delhi govt to train 24,000 school teachers during vacations

With an aim of utilising the summer vacations, Delhi Government will conduct workshops for 24,000 school teachers and train them in areas, including creating lesson plans and making the curriculum interesting.
The exercise started with the Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia sending a voice message to all the teachers asking them to conduct activities such as summer camps to make regular schooling interesting.
"The government has initiated process of conducting workshops for 24,000 teachers -over the period of one month - would be engaged in a process of creating lesson plans, teaching material and activities to make the curriculum more interesting and engaging," a Delhi Government statement said.

The teachers will participate in batches of around 500 to develop material for Hindi, English, Maths, Science and Social Science subjects.
The material would be created by these government school teachers themselves based on their teaching experiences. Launched yesterday across nine venues, the workshop sessions would go on till June 23, in a batch of four days each, the statement said.
"The material development exercise would be through mutual discussions and sharing of ideas among each other. The exercise will involve teachers in collective brainstorming and coming up with the content and transaction process which is interesting for the child," it said.

The material created by the teachers in these workshops will be printed and used as part of the class process from July onwards.
"The activities during the workshop would be facilitated by the Mentor Teachers (a learning resource group of Delhi Government schools) and Cluster Resource Coordinators under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan," it added.