Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh, October 18-
As a part of the commitment of the state government led by CM Bhagwant Singh Mann to upscale the skills of teachers of state for imparting quality education to students in government schools the state government has sent more than 500 teachers to acquire training at Singapore, Finland and even in prestigious IIMs within country too.
“The single motive is to enable the students acquiring education in the government schools to compete with their convent educated peers globally”, said the Chief Minister, while underlining the need for teacher training program.
The Chief Minister said that competence and ability of teachers and school heads directly reflect on the quality of learning of their students and performance of their schools. He said that in this backdrop, the state government envisioned that the concept of exposure visits of school teachers and school heads to a foreign nation would create a systemic impact of cross learning, high motivation and better teaching learning processes in the educational institutes.