Malaviya Mission – Teacher Training Program
Recently, the Union Ministry of Education and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has launched ‘Malaviya Mission – Teacher Training Programme’.
Malviya Mission – Teacher Training Program is organized by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education.
Mission Objectives:
- The objective of this initiative is to provide tailored training programs for teachers and enhance the quality of education in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). For this, they will be trained in different training centers within two years.
- This program will enable 15 lakh teachers across India through 111 Malviya Mission Centres. It may be noted that the name of Human Resource Development Centers (HRDC) has been changed to ‘Madan Mohan Malviya Teacher Training Centre’.
- It aims to prepare teachers for the future, improve the quality of training, build leadership skills and align with the goals of the ‘National Education Policy (NEP) 2020’.
- This program will help in developing innovative teaching methods and high level institutional facilities in all component areas of higher education.
Teacher Training Program at Elementary (School) Level
National Initiative for School Heads and Teachers Holistic Advancement -NISHTHA
- ‘Nishtha’ is the largest teacher training program of its kind in the world. This was started by the Department of School Education and Literacy of the Ministry of Education in 2019-20.
- Nishtha Yojana is a national mission under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Samagra Shiksha, which aims to improve learning outcomes at the elementary level through an integrated teacher training programme.
- It is a capacity building program to “improve the quality of school education through integrated teacher training”.
- It aims to build competencies among all teachers and school principals at the elementary level. It is the world’s largest teacher training program of its kind.
- The primary objective of the Nishtha Yojana training program is to motivate and equip teachers to encourage and promote critical thinking among students.
Source – PIB
