Kathmandu, March 18

Community school teachers participating in the training provided by National Centre for Educational Development will also get certificates now.

Recently, a meeting of National Educational Development Council under the chairmanship of Education Minister Giriraj Mani Pokharel had approved the Teachers Competency Framework and Teachers Professional Development Framework on March 16 to set standards for professional development of teachers.

Teachers participating in the NCED training will be issued certificates on the basis of marks obtained in the written and practical exams.

The Teachers Competency Framework has set eight areas such as content analysis, pedagogical knowledge, ability to assess learners’ need, use of Information and Communication Technology in classrooms and others, to measure teachers competency.

Tulasi Thapaliya, director, NCED, today said they had introduced two frameworks as they wanted to standardise the teachers’ training. “Eventually, it is expected to bring changes in the learning outcomes of the students,” he said.

Earlier, the NCED used to provide 30-day training in three phases (ten-day each) but now onwards a month-long training will be given to teachers in two phases (15-day each).

In the first phase, the teachers will get 10-day training in education training centres or lead resource centres.

They will then be required to prepare an action plan to teach students in the classroom in the remaining five days and teach them for more than a month according to the action plan.

“Trainee teachers will then have to appear in the written exam and submit a report based on the training outcomes and its effect on students in the classroom in each phase,” he said, adding, “They will be given certificates with divisions based on marks obtained in the written and practical tests.”

In the past, the teachers training course was designed and run in the resource centres but they will now be designed and approved at the central level and will be held only in ETCs in 29 districts and LRCs in 46 districts.

According to NCED, there are around 100,000 permanent teachers from primary level to secondary level in more than 35,000 community schools across the country and almost 99 per cent teachers have already received some kind of training.

“Thus, while starting new training programme, priority will be given to fresh teachers,” he added.