New Delhi:East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) and Tech Mahindra Foundation (TMF) jointly inaugurated the In-Service Teacher Education Institute (ITEI) at the EDMC Primary School, A Block, Dilshad Garden in New Delhi. The partnership project was flagged off by Ram Narayan Dubey (Mayor, East Delhi) in presence of Harsh Malhotra (Chairman, Education Committee), PreetiBehan (Municipal Councillor) and VariamKaur (Leader of Opposition). Loveleen Kacker (Chief Executive Officer, TMF) facilitated the launch with the Foundation team.
The official inauguration of the project was followed by a workshop on ‘Developing proficiency in teaching English’, which was attended by 28 primary school from East Delhi’s Shahdara region. The 3-day workshop will address important aspects of transacting English language to children in primary schools, most of who are first generation learners and come with diverse linguistic, cultural and social backgrounds. EDMC has 113 English medium schools, which face the challenge of delivering good quality language learning to the students.
Malhotra said “We are extremely glad to have Tech Mahindra Foundation come forward to shoulder responsibility with us. With the new ITEI, it would be possible to run a quality teacher training programme, which will have experts from different parts of the country share best practices of teaching through like videoconferencing, a dedicated helpline and extensive use of ICT.”
Explaining the importance of English for a better future, Kacker said, “The widespread reach and scale of the government combined with sophisticated technology, high quality research and pedagogical inputs of the Foundation will lead to the establishment of a state of the art teacher education institute, which will empower the teachers to reach out to the most underprivileged children, many of who attend EDMC-run primary schools.”
The ITEI is one of the two long term projects that EDMC and TMF are running jointly in the school. Under the second project, All Round Improvement in School Education (ARISE), TMF has adopted the school for five years for an overall turnaround including the important aspects of enhancing school environment, improving school management, conducting teacher training and working on pedagogy to improve learning levels of children. TMF is running 8 projects under ARISE in New Delhi and Mumbai.
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