| Teachers, School Edu Deptt at loggerheads over disparity in IMPACT training | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 4: The Government teachers and the School Education Department are at loggerheads over confusion created on Integrated Multidisciplinary Professional Advancement Course for Teachers (IMPACT) training, terming it discriminatory.
Sources told Early Times that as per order, the IMPACT training is being initiated for untrained Grade-II, Grade III teachers but the confusion and chaos started over the issue that who will define the citatory of untrained teachers.
“Around 37000 teachers fall under Grade II, III for whom the training has been made compulsory but the teachers termed it discriminatory by saying that 90% of teachers under these grades have professional degrees including MEd, BEd etc. then who it will be defined that who will undergo these training,” they alleged.
They further informed that department maintained that the main aim of this Capacity Building Programme i.e. IMPACT is to improve the learning outcomes at elementary level and offers a platform for teachers to develop their skills. The said course is developed by the faculty members of NCERT New Delhi and the experts from Union Territory of J &K. “If IMPACT training is a capacity building for teachers then it should be for all 86000 teachers not for particular sections like Grade II, III, which create confusion and anger among the teaching community,” they said.
Substantiating their arguments, teachers alleged that it has been observed that in particular schools having strength of five teachers, who all possess the same qualification degrees, only two teachers were picked, which means they were categorized under untrained teachers, they alleged.
They said that the nomenclature of IMPACT training should be on the basis of level of students Elementary/ High rather than on the basis of categorization of teachers, only then the motive behind the training would prove more fruitful. |
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