Nagaland SCERT Director Kevirale-ü Kerhuo and others during the release of new syllabus for diploma course in school counselling in Kohima on March 6. (Morung Photo)
Our Correspondent
Kohima | March 6
The new syllabus for one year diploma course in School Counselling has been developed by State Council of Educational Research & Training (SCERT) Nagaland and the same was formally released today by its director Kevirale-ü Kerhuo during the induction programme for 5th batch at SIEMAT Hall, Kohima.
Among others, the new syllabus also included integrated alternative therapies and Naga indigenous practices of dealing with emotions.
Kerhuo said that SCERT Nagaland became the first SCERT in India to introduce Diploma course in School Counselling in Nagaland during 2018.
“Initially, the duration of the course was 6 months, later on extended to 9 month and further it was extended through a state cabinet approval (2023) to one year,” she said.
She said that the primary objective of this course is to train teachers and to provide professionally trained school counsellors so as to ensure that every school in Nagaland will have atleast one male and one female professionally trained school counsellors.
The training will focus on three main objectives-Development of Knowledge, Development of Skills and Development of attitude as a Counsellor.
Kerhuo said that the training will be given through role play, demonstration, PowerPoint presentation, face to face interaction blended with regular counselling practice to enable the trainees to learn and experience certain therapies of healing.
Based on these objectives, a new syllabus for one year Diploma in School Counselling has been developed by SCERT with the help of professionals and subject experts from St. Joseph University, Chümoukedima, she said.
Stating that a lot of hard work has gone into the making of this new syllabus, she thanked all the counsellor and professionals led by Dr Zavise Rume, Head of School Counselling SCERT for their hard work and dedication.
“I hope this syllabus will serve as a roadmap for both trainers as well as trainees, providing a clean path to achieving our desired goal,” the Director said.
24 seats still vacant for 5th batch
Dr Zavise Rume, Head of School Counselling, Guidance & Counselling Cell, SCERT Nagaland said that the induction programme for 5th batch of one year Diploma course in school counselling, commenced today.
There will another phase of induction programme, he told the media persons.
So far, 26 candidates have been nominated by the Directorate of School Education Nagaland for the course.
Stating that another 24 seat are still vacant for the course, Dr Rume asked the school authority and the teaching community to come forward and join the same.
It is only for government teachers, he said. However, we may even invite the private candidates to fill the vacant seat.
He informed that the trainees will be sent to the field and to different institution across the state.
“After that, they (trainees) will come back with field experiences and base on those experiences, we will try to design, explore some of the relevant therapies and counselling strategy required to deal with the problem face by students,” he said.
On completion of this course, the trainees are expected to be professional counsellors in the schools.
This course is totally free of cost, sponsored by Samagra Shiksha.
Around 10 to 20 highly professional counsellors from All Nagaland Counsellors Association will take the class.
Dr Rume said that there is government policy to ensure that atleast one female and one male counsellor should be made available in all the schools.
He said that once the policy is implemented in toto, “we may need atleast 5000 to 10,000 counsellors in Nagaland.”
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