Mysore/Mysuru: To create awareness and consensus among the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) teachers about specialised scientific contents, state-of-the-art tools, techniques and methodologies prevalent in the area of regional language education and mother-tongue education in line with the implementation of National Education Policy-2020, the NTS-I of Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), had organised the 2nd phase of online capacity building language training programmes for NVS regional language teachers. A six-day online capacity building programme for Punjabi language teachers was held from Aug.16 to 21.
Prof. Rajesh Sachdeva, chief guest, emphasised on the fact that a good teacher is always a lifelong learner. Language teachers must be able to exploit the similarities and differences between target language and native language of students in terms of their respective scripts, grammars, associated cultures, vocabularies, etc., to the benefit of the students. He also spoke about the importance of different variables such as motivation, attitude, age group, intelligence, aptitude, cognition and personality in classroom teaching.
