SHILLONG: The Meghalaya Board of School Education (MBoSE) organised an interactive session with school principals on Monday to sensitise them on the recent trends in the field of education in modern school management and modern teaching to make the teachers more efficient in teaching.
Held at the hall of MBoSE office at Lachumiere on Monday, Joint Director of MBoSE, M Marbaniang told reporters, “As a state education board we felt it is high time that school principals should be sensitised in the field of modern teaching and to be more efficient.”
He added that the workshop was focused on uplifting skills (of the teachers) and equip them with development in recent technology which is the main focus of the orientation programme.
Marbaniang informed that the main resource person of the programme was G. Balasubramanian, a renowned academician from the state of Tamil Nadu, who retired as Director (academic) in the Central Board of School Education (CBSE) in the year 2006.
Highlighting on the notion of Global Education, he said, “We want the students from the Lower Primary Level upto the Higher Secondary level to not only learn from the textbooks. Let them also realise and they should have the thinking skill. Sometimes,” he said.
Stressing on the need for children to go beyond textbooks, to allow children to have critical and analytical thinking, he said, “We want to empower young children and empower them with the spirit of thinking. Let them think.”
“I feel that the system we have is different, perhaps, in other parts of the world. Hence, it is global education,” he added.
He observed that the orientation programme will sensitise school principals to motivate students to think critically, beyond the textbooks.
“For example, tell the students to write a poem on ‘Ward’s Lake’ or on ‘Shillong’. In this way the children can think and come up with different words and different phrasings,” he added.