Driving Naari Programme launched in Chandigarh
* GROUP TO MEET TODAY TO CHALK OUT CURRICULUM, TRAINING MODULE OF ENGLISH TEACHERS
CHANDIGARH, JUNE 25: Deeply concerned over the standard of English shown by English teachers of different government schools with poor results in English language, the Punjab Education Minister Dr Daljit Singh Cheema today constituted a core group of experts to work out a long term strategy to improve the language skills of English teachers.
Disclosing this here today, the official spokesman said that core group consisting of heads of 17 District Institute of Education Training (DIET), heads of 12 Government In Service Teachers Training Institutes (GIST) have been called for emergent meeting tomorrow at Mohali to chalk out a long term and short term strategy to improve the English language skills of English teachers. The core group has been mandated with the task of studying the problem in depth, work out a crash course for the teachers, curriculum of the crash course besides working out the details of long term training programme for English teachers of such schools. Dr Cheema has issued instructions that he would personally monitor the training programme and would ensure that teachers would have to raise their teaching standards to tackle this problem permanently.
