TEACHERS' NISTHA BY GOVT. OF INDIA

NISTHA

(NATIONAL INITIAVE FOR SCHOOL HEAD’S AND TEACHERS’ HOSLISTIC DEVELOPMENT)

The Department of School Education and Literacy has launched a National Mission to improve learning outcomes at the elementary level through an Integrated Teacher Training Programme called NISHTHA under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Samagra Shiksha in 2109-20.

NISHTHA is a capacity building programme for "Improving Quality of School Education through Integrated Teacher Training". It aims to build competencies among all the teachers and school principals at the elementary stage. NISHTHA is the world's largest teachers' training programme of its kind. The basic objective of this massive training programme is to motivate and equip teachers to encourage and foster critical thinking in students. The initiative is first of its kind wherein standardized training modules are developed at national level for all States and Union Territories.

Aim of NISTHA

· Capacity building of 4.2 million teachers

· Integrated training of principals/heads as key academic support

· Focus on competency and higher order thinking skills based teaching learning

· Training of all heads and teachers as first level counselors

· Promoting experiential and joyful learning

· Awareness of centrally sponsored schemes/initiatives

· Online monitoring and support system

· Convergence of multi-departmental efforts

· Activity based training modules

It provides training in following areas

· Curriculum, Learner centered Pedagogy, Learning Outcomes and Inclusive Education

· Developing Social - Personal Qualities and Creating Safe and Healthy School Environment

· Art Integrated Learning

· School Based Assessment

· Health and Well-being in Schools

· Integration of ICT in Teaching-Learning and Assessment

· Initiatives in School Education

Pedagogy modules

Pedagogy of Environmental Studies (Primary Stage)

Pedagogy of Mathematics

Pedagogy of Languages

Pedagogy of Science (Upper Primary Stage)

Pedagogy of Social Sciences (Upper Primary Stage)

Introduction to the Package for School Leadership Development

School Leadership : Concepts and Application

Pre-School Education

Pre-Vocational Education

Relevance of Gender Dimensions in Teaching and Learning Process

Initiative in School Education

Workshop Schedule and Session Design

Ø It has aim to train 120 National Resource Groups (NRGs) will train Key Resource , Persons (KRPs) & State Resource Persons- Leadership (SRPL) of the States/Union Territories. One NRG includes 15 national level resource persons.

Ø 33000 state resources person .One State Resource Group (SRG) includes 05 KRPs & 01 SRPL from SCERTs, DIETs, CTEs, IASEs. SRGs will train the school teachers and school principals (functionaries at district, block and cluster level).

Ø (42,00,000)All the elementary school level Teachers, Principals, Block Resource Centre Coordinators (BRCs) & Cluster Resource Centre Coordinators (SRCs) will be trained by SRGs.