Mysuru: A five-day training-cum-workshop on Testing & Evaluation and Item writing for Urdu teachers of South India, began at National Testing Service-India (NTS-I) of Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysuru, on July 23.
Pankaj Dwivedi, Officer In-charge of NTS-I, in his inaugural address, introduced the research and academic activities of CIIL and its various schemes. He emphasised on the importance of testing and evaluation for teachers and students engaged in teaching and learning of Urdu language and literature.
While briefing the objectives of the workshop, he highlighted the learner-oriented teaching and its importance in classrooms. He added that teachers should know what kind of strategies, methods and techniques to be followed for effective teaching and objective assessment of the learners.
He assured that this training-cum-workshop will provide the teachers with solutions to deal with the common problems faced by the teachers and students at their respective ends in teaching-learning process.
Dr. G.M. Ansari, Junior Resource Person-Academic, welcomed. Dr. Md. Saleem Ahmed proposed a vote of thanks. Prof. N. Nadaraja Pillai, former Professor-cum-Deputy Director, CIIL, Mysuru; Prof. Abdur Rahman Khan, former Principal, DIET, Mysuru; Dr. Zubair Shadab Khan, Associate Professor, CPDUMT, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh and NTS-I faculties — Dr. V. Ilangovan, Dr. Biresh Kumar, Dr. G.M. Ansari, Dr. Md. Saleem, Dr. Taiyab Ali Khan and Dr. N. Murali Mohana will train participants along with the external experts.
Prof. D. G. Rao, Director, CIIL, Mysuru, is overall patron of the workshop.
Thirty teachers, who are engaged in teaching of Urdu in various Universities, Colleges and Schools of South India are participating in this workshop.
This post was published on July 24, 2018 6:30 pm