NBSE, Trinity College hold teachers’ training

Kohima, March 14 (DIPR): The Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) in collaboration with the Trinity College, London conducted the third annual teachers’ training in English communication skills on March 11 and 12 at NBSE office conference hall, Kohima. Dr. John Bentley, Trinity Academic Support Specialist, India and Soma Podder, Trinity faculty, India were the resource persons of the training, which was attended by 32 teachers from 22 institutions affiliated for the programme.   The training focused on orienting teachers to prepare students for Trinity College’s Graded Exam in Spoken English (GESE) as well as on classroom management and ways to integrate communication skills into their classrooms.

  The GESE, which is highly sought-after qualification with international validity and is accepted for entry into universities throughout Europe and the US, has unique form of assessments focusing on 1-1 interactions between the examiner and the examinee with graded approach to language acquisition.   In the last two years, students of Nagaland who took the exam have a record of 100% pass percentage.