Monday, 13 December 2010
14th Orientation Programme by DCE, Rajkot
This is the group of 32 wonderful teachers who were part of our 14th Orientation Programme which concluded on 11th Dec. this month. Under District Centre for English (DCE) we invite English teachers teaching in govt. schools coming under the purview of
The fact that these teachers are newly recruited and that this training is amongst the first trainings they have gone through so far makes me feel more hopeful about them and about the training they have got here. They have 30 or 30+ years to be in this teaching career before they finally retire. And nothing is better for them than the kind of training that DCE is proving to them during the last five-six years. As a Resource Person(RP) in DCE, I have got chance to come across around 600 English teachers for one or another reason during the last one and half years. And most of them have confessed about the lack of conducive atmosphere where they themselves can feel motivated to teach English in an untraditional way. Most of them have said they don't even get chance to speak English in their schools and villages. It is only when they come to training like this when they come out of their monotonous routine, and think of something innovative for their students.
During the 10 days, we discuss about the nature of language, how a child masters it, perspectives on language learning and teaching, all four skills LSRW with their sub-skills, phonetics, study skills, and writing. The only thing that we take care of is that the classes are not lecture based. They should be interactive and activity-base where all teachers get chance to come out of their shell and open up
DCS has provided us with everything that we need to conduct our programmes successfully : Laptop, computer, internet, printer, photocopy machine. For OHP and LCD and the screen etc we take help of other branches of District Centre of Education and Training(DIET). MHRD provides funds enough to run the programmes efficiently. And so we can invite visiting faculty who can come and meet teachers with their innovative ideas. I always tell trainee teachers : "Don't think of such training as mere ritual without meaning. It is the time when you are away from your school and your students and so your mind is free from all worries of your routine work, taking periods, checking answer copies and all. You come across the best people in your field and your mind is free to think of innovative ideas and be filled with them."
At the end of the O.P., we find teachers unwilling to part, wanting to stay for few more days. Parting is always painful for both teachers and us because we know that after they leave the class-rooms will look like a deserted island without them. But we have to part somewhere. How long can training last? It has to end. And we have to go back to implement what we have got during the training
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