Mentor teachers to be sent on educational visits across India
With an aim to strengthen the ability of mentor teachers to facilitate sessions with the rest of the teachers in Delhi on content and pedagogy, the Delhi government has decided to send Mentors to visit locations across India to learn from educational innovations.
Several groups of mentors will visit Mumbai, Bangalore, Jaipur and Ahmedabad to adopt and bring successful models from across the country to the classrooms of Delhi government schools.
Officials said that the government has, over the last two years, taken several steps to upgrade the quality of education in its schools. Successful practices and policies from around the world have been adapted and employed to ensure the most effective transformation of schools.
One such innovation has been the mentor teacher Program, which comprises around 200 specialised cadres of government school teachers. Mentor teachers have played a pivotal role in enhancing teaching and learning methodologies inside classrooms.
“The government has decided to send batches of mentor teachers to Mumbai, Bangalore, Jaipur and Ahmedabad. The mentor teachers will immerse themselves in various innovations at leading educational institutions,” a state government source said.
“In Rajasthan, a batch would spend time at Digantar Vidyala and Grameen Shiksha Kendra. In Gujarat, Anupam Moti Dau Primary School and Gyanshala are educational centres which will host the mentors. In Mumbai, they will be at Gateway School of Mumbai and Teach For India. Mentors will visit the educational innovations of Dream A Dream Foundation,” the source further said.
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said: “Mentor teachers will be deeply enriched by their exposure trips that the government has organised for them. I am positive that this will significantly improve their ability to build capacities of other teachers in future.”
The government plans to further send mentors to various government and private schools, and non-governmental organisations working in the field of education to observe and understand the innovations developed by them in pedagogy.