Workshop for govt school teachers from June 29

CHANDIGARH, June 24: To enable the school heads to perform their varied roles effectively, two training workshops of six days' duration each...

CHANDIGARH, June 24: To enable the school heads to perform their varied roles effectively, two training workshops of six days’ duration each are being organised by the UT Education Department from June 29 to July 4. While 30 school heads will be participating in the workshop on creative approach to school management at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Theog (HP), as many as 50 heads will attend the other workshop on effective school management at State Institute of Education, Sector 32. A decision to this effect was taken after the Adviser to the UT Administrator, Jagdish Sagar, had a meeting with the school heads to evaluate their performances. Keeping in view the poor performance of the school heads of government schools in rural areas and colonies, it was decided to equip them with the required managerial qualities through an innovative approach.

According to UT Education Secretary Anuradha Gupta, the workshop at Theog has been visualised as a "space" wherein the participants would be able to take time to allow themselves to articulate their concerns about the organisation of the schools, to share their perceptions about the change required, brainstorm about possible alternatives and work out creative ways of managing the complex organisational structure of schools.

During the workshop, knowledge of skills required for better decision making and management, fostering better relationships at work for smoother team functioning will also be imparted. The emphasis will be on making the participants work out for themselves how the attitudinal change that has been wrought during the workshop is to be translated into behavioural change at work place. DPI (Schools) D.S. Mangat said that participatory methods of community theatre will be used to create an environment conducive for openness in communication.

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In the first phase, creative exercises and games would be used for breaking barriers and identifying the issues of concern; during the second participatory exercises would be used to direct attention towards `thinking skills’ and in the third emphasis will be on perception of change and its management, he said.

In case of the workshop at Chandigarh, topics have been selected in such a manner that after completing the training programme the participants will be able to reflect on the policies, problems and prospects of school education. Besides this, they will be able to equip themselves to plan, guide and monitor the implementation of various educational programmes in the school, develop capabilities for effective management of office personnel and finances and contribute effectively to the implementation of national projects like IED and UEE.

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