Excelsior Correspondent
JHUNJHUNU (Rajasthan), Oct 10: Directorate of Rashtriya Madhyamik Siksha Abhiyaan (RMSA), J&K in collaboration with the Kaivalya Education Foundation, commenced first phase of the 10-day Leadership and Management (residential) Training of Principals and Headmasters of the School Education Department in the Piramal School of Leadership here.
Minister for Education, Naeem Akhtar inaugurated the training program from Jammu over Video Conference and interacted with the organisers and participants.
During the interaction, Minister shared his vision with the participants and exhorted upon them to take maximum benefit of the training programme. Their ways of management of the schools must bring about transformation leading to improved learning levels of the students, he added.
RMSA, J&K is looking forward to imparting training to heads of all secondary and higher secondary schools and a good number of Upper Primary Schools in a cascade mode over a period of three years.
The Department of Education has joined hands with the Kaivalya Education Foundation, a leading name in the area of leadership training of educational administrators, for a period of three years where in they will impart residential-training to the heads twice every year and handhold transformation of the schools by way of improving the way in which the schools are managed.
The present batch is training 110 heads of schools from all 22 districts of J&K, who in addition to being trained will become Leadership Facilitators and impart the training to the head of schools in every district of the State.
State Project Director, RMSA, Saugat Biswas also interacted with the participants during the video conference and urged the trainees to learn new things with an open mind. He said that the residential program has been designed to ensure that the evenings are also utilised in creative ways and the participants get enough opportunities of peer-learning.
Manmohan Singh, Program Manager, Kaivalya Education Foundation gave a presentation about the training program and how the training would bring about improvement in learning levels of the students.
On the first day the participants went through an art-integrated activity where understanding of Leadership and “Leadership in School’s Context” was built. Other activities in the involved Group Discussions on Primary Responsibility of School Head and movie screening on personal responsibility, change in self and society.
In the next few days, the workshop will include sessions Prioritizing Work; Planning, Efficiency and Output; Building Perspective on Group Dynamics and Conflict Resolution; Children’s Developmental needs; SWOT Analysis; Preparing Professional Development Plan; etc. The Leadership Facilitators after completing the first workshop will start training other Head of Institutions in batches from October 20.
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