Mysore/Mysuru: To create awareness and consensus among the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) teachers about specialised scientific contents, state-of-the-art tools, techniques and methodologies prevalent in the area of regional language education and mother-tongue education in line with the implementation of National Education Policy-2020, the NTS-I of Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), had organised the 2nd phase of online capacity building language training programmes for NVS regional language teachers.   A six-day online capacity building programme for Punjabi language teachers was held from Aug.16 to 21.  

Prof. Rajesh Sachdeva, chief guest, emphasised on the fact that a good teacher is always a lifelong learner. Language teachers must be able to exploit the similarities and differences between target language and native language of students in terms of their respective scripts, grammars, associated cultures, vocabularies, etc., to the benefit of the students. He also spoke about the importance of different variables such as motivation, attitude, age group, intelligence, aptitude, cognition and personality in classroom teaching. 

In his Presidential address the Director of CIIL, Prof. Shailendra Mohan spoke about the competency based learning, and expressed that the teachers must be able to adopt and adapt to 21st century skills in teaching Indian languages. He further assured that these programmes will enable the teachers to revise and re-invent different aspects of teaching, testing and evaluation, especially, in the area of language education. 

These training programmes will play an important role in the development and promotion of Indian languages and thereby they will also contribute towards fulfilling ‘EK BHARAT SHRESHT BHARAT’ vision of the country. 

Prof. P.R. Dharmesh Fernandez, Head, Centre for Testing and Evaluation, briefed the participants about the activities undertaken by NTS-I, CIIL and its seven regional centres, while Gyanendra Kumar, Joint Commissioner, NVS expressed his happiness on CIIL and NVS coming together to train the teachers. Dr. Pankaj Dwivedi, Programme Coordinator, welcomed. N.P. Rajan, Deputy Commissioner, NVS proposed a vote of thanks. Dr. Pawan Tibba briefed about the objectives.  About 250 teachers in four languages — Punjabi, Odia, Assamese and Urdu — were trained by renowned experts during the training held separately. The programmes were organised under the patronage of Prof. Shailendra Mohan and Vinayak Garg, Commissioner, NVS (HQ).