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 TALIM under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Samagra Shiksha in 2020.
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 UTs.
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.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).All the elementary school level Teachers, Principals, Block Resource Centre Coordinators (BRCs) & Cluster Resource Centre Coordinators (SRCs) will be trained by SRGs.
Highlights of NISHTHA
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
Expected Outcomes Expected Outcomes
Improvement in learning outcomes of the students
Creation of an enabling and enriching inclusive classroom environment
Teachers are trained as first level counselors to be alert and responsive to the social, emotional and psychological need of students
Teachers are trained to use Art as pedagogy leading to increased creativity and innovation among students
Teachers are trained to develop and strengthen personal-social qualities of students for their holistic development
Creation of healthy and safe school environment
Integration of ICT in teaching-learning and assessment
Develop stress-free School Based Assessment focused on development of learning competencies
Teachers adopt Activity Based Learning and move away from rote learning to competency based learning
Teachers and School Heads become aware of new initiatives in school education
Transformation of the heads of schools for providing academic and administrative leadership in the schools for fostering new initiatives
OFFLINE COURSE MODULES - GENERIC
Curriculum, Learner-centered Pedagogy, Learning Outcomes and Inclusive Education
Improving Social-personal Qualities and Creating Safe and Healthy School Environment
Art Integrated Learning
School Based Assessment
Health and Well Being
Integration of ICT in Teacher-Learning and Assessment
Recently, the National Initiative for School Heads and Teachers Holistic Advancement (NISHTHA) programme has been launched for the first time in online mode in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
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Initially, the NISHTHA programme was launched in 2019 through face-to-face mode to improve learning outcomes at the elementary level in the country.
Covid-19 pandemic situation and lockdown has affected the conduct of this programme in face-to-face mode. Therefore, NISHTHA has been customized for online mode to be conducted through Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing (DIKSHA) and NISHTHA portals.
Online Nishtha Teacher Training Aim:
National Initiative for School Heads’ and Teachers’ Holistic Advancement (NISHTHA) is a capacity building programme for improving the quality of school education through integrated teacher training.
It aims to build competencies among all the teachers and school principals at the elementary stage.
Online Nishtha Teacher Training Implementation:
The functionaries (at the state, district, block level) will be trained in an integrated manner on learning outcomes, school based assessment, learner – centred pedagogy, new initiatives in education, addressing diverse needs of children through multiple pedagogies, etc.
It is being organized by constituting National Resource Groups (NRGs) and State Resource Groups (SRGs) at the National and the State level who will be training 42 lakhs teachers subsequently.
Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing
DIKSHA Portal was launched by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)
It provides a digital platform for teachers giving them an opportunity to learn and train themselves and connect with the teacher community.
It is built considering the whole teacher's life cycle - from the time student teachers enroll in Teacher Education Institutes (TEIs) to after they retire as teachers.
It also provides access to NCERT textbooks and lessons, following the regular school curriculum.
States, government bodies and even private organizations, can integrate DIKSHA into their respective teacher initiatives based on their goals, needs and capabilities. Nishtha Talim Aheval | Online Nishtha Teacher Training Programme Details
