The Department of School Education, Nagaland in association with the Pratham Education Foundation conducted four days online training programme ‘Gurushala’ for nearly 10,000 Govt. School teachers. ‘Gurushala’ is an initiative of Indus Towers Limited and Vodafone India Foundation. Nearly 8,700 Govt. School teachers of classes 1-8th were trained on the theme ‘Remote techniques for parent & student engagement, assessment methods and post lockdown strategies’ on 15th & 16th January 2021 and over 1000 teachers of class 9-12th participated in the training conducted on the theme ‘Remote techniques for parent &student engagement, content creation and post lockdown strategies’ on 18th & 19th January 2021.

The training discussed teaching strategies that will help teachers transition smoothly from Remote/Online teaching to classroom teaching. Principal Director, School Education, Nagaland, Shanavas C, IAS during the inauguration session said “Let this be a beginning, because it is high time for our state to venture into alternative methods of education and teaching.” The online teacher portal ‘www.gurushala.co’ launched by Gurushala curates free and high-quality content for teachers. Gurushala is now available both as a website and as an application that can be downloaded from Google Play Store. The website works for capacity development of teachers to improve student learning and achieve holistic development of students even with remote teaching.

                                                                                                (DIPR)