Delhi government teachers to undergo training at National Institute of Education in Singapore

Government school teachers will have to undergo a training programme at the National Institute of Education in Singapore as per the new plan chalked out by the Education Department, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Friday. 

"For the next two years, our team at the Education Department have chalked out a well-thought out plan which is based on two questions: how to teach and what to teach," the minister, who also holds the education portfolio, wrote in a letter to teachers. He also added that while it is important to seek inspiration from several experiments and techniques that are carried out across the world, we should not get too affected by them, since that will lead to blind copying of those techniques. 

Manish Sisodia Delhi Deputy Chief Minister

To learn more from techniques around the world, the teachers will have to undergo a training programme at Singapore's famous National Institute of Education. I will also try that they get a taste of some of the international schools based in Germany and Finland."

As part of its teachers training initiative, the Delhi government has also decided to send 90 principals of the government-run schools to the Cambridge University in the United Kingdom for a leadership training exercise.

Delhi government has allocated Rs 102 crore for international training of principals and teachers in the budget for the current financial year.