CBSE requests IIMs to design courses for teachers

NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education has requested all the Indian Institutes of Management, India’s premier business schools, to “explore the possibility to design and offer” short-term courses for principals and teachers working in schools affiliated to the board.

There are over 21,000 schools across the country affiliated to the board, the vast majority of them are private.

The statement from the board’s spokesperson, issued on December 18, also listed a set of “learning outcomes” for these training sessions. These included “preparation of pedagogical plans”; “train teachers to track progress of students on learning goal/outcome and implement competency based education”; “lead teachers in assessing and improving lesson plans and instructional designs by incorporating 21 st Century skills”; “collect and use data to oversee the organization and resources” and “model democratic value systems, team building, and growth of traits”.

The CBSE has also requested the IIMs to keep “a reasonable fee for such programmes to facilitate participation of both well-resourced schools as well to schools situated in remote areas or most educationally backward sectors of the country”.

The board is also reaching out to the Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research to "donate" e-content for its online learning programme, Vidya Daan.

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