Heads of government schools in rural belts attend online capacity building workshop

The initiative started by the Punjab education department in collaboration with Indian School of Business

Tribune Web Desk

Updated At : 02:35 AM Aug 09, 2020 IST

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, August 8

Bharti Institute of Public Policy (BIPP) at Indian School of Business conducted online workshops throughout Punjab on ‘Leadership and Motivation’ for directly recruited Heads of Government High Schools through Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) of Punjab Education Department. Three cohorts of 100 participants each have been trained during these online training. A total of 989 directly recruited school heads would be imparted training by holding webinars for different batches. The each training webinar would be of five day duration.

Four heads of government schools in rural belt in district have already attended the five- day online training workshop under this initiative. The workshop is a part of an overarching project titled ‘Improving Quality of Education in Punjab’, that BIPP is undertaking with the Department of Education, Punjab.

The project is aimed at studying the policy, institutional and capacity building reforms needed to give a fillip to the qualitative improvement drive in education sector. With emphasis on building not only the physical, behavioural and attitudinal changes in teachers, the workshops also aim to equip them with managerial and leadership skills.

“These workshops have helped us understand that it is important for a head of a team to communicate with the team and even bridge the communication gap between teachers and students. The workshops helped us to understand that leadership requires building a strong, communication based network of human resources, in this case teachers, who would in turn improve their teaching as well as mentoring skills,” said Narinder Singh, who is the head master at Govt High School, Chavinda Kalan and also the district mentor for Science.

DEO Satinder Bir Singh said that the training has been designed with a special focus on critical roles of school heads as decision-makers, team leaders and other functional areas. “The goal here is to transform government school heads into leaders with exposure and knowledge. This is required to adapt to the changing education system globally and also to improve the human resources at Government schools.”