NISHTHA Capacity Building Programme
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GS II : Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources

Approach “NISHTHA Capacity Building Programme” : Mains and Prelims

1. About NISHTHA Capacity Building Programme

Why in News ?

To fulfill the long-standing vision of Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA) to achieve academic excellence in Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRSs) a 40 days NISHTHA-National initiative for School Heads’ and Teachers’ Holistic Advancement Program completed

• National flagship program of NCERT on 19th June 2021.

Key Facts

• The capacity building program is aimed to build competencies among teachers and school principals and Improving Quality of School Education through Integrated Teacher Training.

  

• MoTA has recently collaborated with National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) which a national apex education body for several programmatic initiatives and interventions, for conducting such programs across 350 functional EMRS schools across the country.
• The participants were capacitated on 18 holistic and comprehensive modules covering different aspects of education such as Learning Outcomes, Assessment Practices, learner-centered pedagogy, Art-Integrated Learning, Gender Equality, Covid Response of Schools, POCSO Act, Pedagogy of Science, Mathematics, Language, Social Science Subjects etc.
• The training was conducted in an online mode adopting a blended approach.
• Amalgam of strategies were adopted by National Resource Group (NRG) members of NCERT using narratives, stories, quizzes, and puzzles etc. as part of the training methodologies.
• National Education Policy (NEP-2020) recommendation of Providing In-service continuous professional development
  • These will be strengthened and substantially expanded to meet the needs of enriched teaching-learning processes for quality education.

Unbox Tinkering – ATL Teacher Training Program

• Unbox Tinkering – ATL Teacher Training Program also organised earlier. 
• Organised in coordination with Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, IBM and Learning Links foundation for 60 EMRS Heads, Teachers and ATL incharges from 12 States.
• During this simulation sessions which allowed open learning and exchange of ideas on wide ranging topics like computational thinking, Arduino Basics-Coding to Design Thinking etc.

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