Dimapur, May 30 (MExN): With an aim to enable the teachers, village community and the concerned departments to come together, learn and share from their experiences in providing quality education, a one day consultation program was held on May 18 last where the participants were enlightened about the practical problems in education.
A press release issued by Samuel Therieh, Program Manager, Mon ADP (a project of World Vision India), stated that the resource persons for the consultation programme were Besiiyi Swiiro, the District Education Officer Mon, Wangno the CDPO of ‘Wakching’ and Samuel Therieh the Program Manager of World Vision India Mon ADP.
The release stated that the DEO Mon, Swiiro opined that there are a lot of practical problems especially among those who are working in the interior villages. However, he encouraged the teachers to take it as a challenge to groom the future generation of the Nagas in general and the Konyak community in particular.
The release stated that the CDPO of ‘Wakching’, Wangno stressed on the importance of a teacher’s role in shaping the future of a community. It disclosed that the CDPO, while stressing on the need of dedicated teachers, emphasized that a teacher in a fast changing world, needs to change in order to bring about real changes and further called upon them to give their priority to teaching, if their calling is to teach at all.
The CDPO, while opining that teachers require “human touch” in their profession, encouraged them to become a teacher who can ‘hear, understand, motivate, acknowledge, news, train, open, uniqueness, contact, and honour’ the needs of the students. The release stated that the CDPO further said that one has to be dedicated and disciplined to demand dedication and discipline from others.
Giving some of the points of the programme manager of World Vision India ADP Mon, the release stated that Therieh stressed on some of the immediate concerns in relation to education at the village level for further deliberations, like poor response to importance of education for children by the parents, lack of ‘visionary leaders’ and commitment for education among the community and lackadaisical attitude of the students for their education.
The release also stated that during the general discussion at the end of the programme, the teachers shared some of their concerns like shortage of teachers in the school, high enrollment but less number of class-rooms, need for extra coaching class after school and lack of qualified and experience teachers.
The release further stated that the programme was attended by around 140 participants representing the teaching community, Village Education Committee, Village Development Committee from 20 different villages of Mon Block.
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