The vision of Chief Minister, Hemant Soren to improve the level of education in Jharkhand will soon take shape. On the instructions of the CM, the construction work of model school at the Panchayat level has started so that the children of poor, farmers, deprived and backward should also get good and quality education. Presently the construction work of about 80 model schools is in progress. The Chief Minister himself is monitoring the construction of the model school, so that the children of Jharkhand can be covered with quality education at the earliest. Work is in progress to train the Principals to develop their leadership skills to lead the school operations.
For this, the education department has registered 325 principals for training at the block level, out of which the training of 176 principals has been completed. The training of the remaining will be completed by January 31 of this year. Around 740 teachers have participated in this training programme. In this 10-week training program, training has been given for the development of technical capability of teachers posted in schools subject-wise and for classroom conduction process, student-centred teaching. SCERT and DIET have been made completely effective for the training of teachers.
Along with this, capacity development is being done through a continuous system of evaluation of teachers, improvement of quality of schools through State Teacher Parivartan Dal, motivation camp, educational demonstration of teachers and other oriented programs.
The proposed schools of excellence in the state will be given affiliation with CBSE. In this way, 80 schools will be developed as schools of excellence under the Adarsh Vidyalaya scheme. A target has been set to benefit about 15 lakh children while expanding the scheme in future. Adarsh Vidyalaya Yojana has been taken up as the flagship scheme for the State to make Government Schools at national and international standards in terms of access, equity and quality excellence.
The government is working on a plan to start the Aao Padhe, Khub Padhe Pathan campaign to enable all the students studying in model schools to have the ability to read textbooks. Reading textbooks, stories, articles and words will be practiced as reading material. Along with this, the cooperation of NCERT, NEIP and organizations working in this field will be taken to develop the ability of children to speak English. With the establishment of language labs in schools, spoken English courses will be prepared and conducted in schools.
