Online Webinar on "Restoring Teachers’ Dignity and Credibility: NEP 2020"
About this program
Online Webinar on "Restoring Teachers’ Dignity and Credibility: NEP 2020" The teacher must be at the centre of the fundamental reforms in the education system. The new education policy must help re-establish teachers, at all levels, as the most respected and essential members of our society, because they truly shape our next generation of citizens. It must do everything to empower teachers and help them to do their job as effectively as possible. The new education policy must help recruit the very best and brightest to enter the teaching profession at all levels, by ensuring livelihood, respect, dignity, and autonomy, while also instilling in the system basic methods of quality control and accountability NEP 2020. Teachers truly shape the future of our children and therefore, the future of our nation. It is because of this noblest role that the teacher in India was the most respected member of society. Only the very best and most learned became teachers. Society entrusted teachers or gurus with the responsibility of disseminating knowledge, skills and ethics to the students. In the present scenario the quality of teacher education, recruitment, deployment, service conditions, and empowerment of teachers is not where it should be, and consequently the quality and motivation of teachers do not reach the desired standards. The high respect for teachers and the high status of the teaching profession must be restored to inspire the best to enter the teaching profession. The motivation and empowerment of teachers is required to ensure the best possible future for our children and our nation. NEP 2020 has put in place systemic reforms that would help ‘teaching’ emerge as an attractive profession of choice for bright and talented young minds. It proposes several reforms to empower teachers and ‘restore the high respect and status’ to this profession, hoping that it would eventually attract the best minds and talent to choose teaching as their profession. The Kothari Commission, 1966 said, ‘Of all the different factors which influence the quality of education and its contribution to national development, the quality, competence and character of teachers are undoubtedly the most significant.’ The NEP 2020 too exhorts, ‘Teachers truly shape the future of our children – and, therefore, the future of our nation’ thereby implying that teachers play the most important role in nation-building by creating high quality of human resource in their classrooms. Programme Description The webinar aims to understand issues and challenges at different levels that hinder the process of re-establishing teachers pride. Two sessions will be organized by the experts on ‘Re-establishing teachers’ pride : NEP 2020 and ‘Teachers for Inclusive Schools”. The sessions will be followed by an open house discussion. Who Can Participate Principals, Management, Teachers, Teacher -Educators and Educationists