Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 6: The Department of School Education & Literacy has decided to celebrate Shikshak Parv-2021. The theme of Shikshak Parv has been identified keeping in view three of the five pillars of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations - Ideas@75, Actions@75 and Achievements@75 and looks at the practitioners of school education like Teachers, Principals, etc. to share their experiences on webinars based on the current year’s theme: “Quality and Sustainable Schools: Learnings from Schools in India”. The Shikshak Parv 2021 will be commencing from 5th September, 2021 till 17th September through virtual mode. National Award to Teachers: The Hon’ble President of India, Sri Ram Nath Kovind conferred the awards to 44 Awardees through Webinar, on 5th September, 2021 in New Delhi. On 7th September, 2021 at 10:30 AM, Hon’ble Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi will be addressing the teachers, students, parents and stakeholders associated with education. Hon'ble Prime Minister will be launching five initiatives of the Department, that is, Indian Sign Language dictionary of 10,000 words, Talking Books (audio books for visually impaired), School Quality Assurance and Assessment Framework (SQAAF) of CBSE, NISTHA teachers' training programme for NIPUN Bharat, and Vidyanjali Portal. The conclave will be graced by Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon’ble Minister for Education, Smt. Annpurna Devi, Hon’ble Minister of State for Education, Dr. Subhas Sarkar, Hon’ble Minister of State for Education, Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, Hon’ble Minister of State for Education. The inaugural conclave will be followed by webinars, discussions, presentations etc. upto 17th September, 2021 in which the educational practitioners from various schools of the country have been invited to share their experience, learnings and the roadmap ahead. The theme of Webinars has been further segregated into nine sub-themes in the subsequent webinars such as Technology in Education: NDEAR, Foundational Literacy and Numeracy: A Pre-requisite to Learning and ECCE, Nurturing Inclusive Classrooms etc. |