Applications invited from ICT teachers for National Awards

by Haryananewswire

CHANDIGARH, JAN 30 

The Haryana School Education Department has invited applications for   ‘National Awards for Teachers using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Innovation and Education in schools level’ in the State under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme.

          While giving this information here today, a spokesman of the department said that under this scheme sponsored by the Central Government, those teachers would be honoured who have enhanced student learning by effectively and innovatively integrating technology supported learning into the school curriculum and subject teaching     thereby promoted enquiry based cooperative-collaborative learning using ICT among the  students.

 He said that teachers of primary, upper primary, secondary and  higher secondary schools pertaining to State Government Schools, schools run by local bodies and government aided, schools including the government and private schools affiliated to State Board of Education, Central Government Schools that is Kendriya Vidyalayas, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, Central Tibetan Schools, Schools run by Atomic Energy Education Society, schools affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education and schools affiliated to Council for Indian Schools Certificate Examination were eligible under the scheme.

The spokesman said that the schools would send entries in the prescribed format alongwith supporting documents to the Directorate of Education through the concerned Principal, District Education Officer or Regional Offices. He said that a Committee under the Chairmanship of Secretary or Commissioner, Education would scrutinize all the entries and shortlist the candidates and forward the same to the Chairperson of the Awards Committee. The State would recommend only twice the number of teachers as its award quota, in order of merit, he added.

He said that the shortlisted candidates would be required to make presentations before the Awards Committee headed by Director, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi. Invitation in this regard would be sent to teachers directly by Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET)-NCERT with intimation to their Directorate. The Awards Committee would recommend the requisite number of awardees to the Ministry with justification who would process the recommendation for the awards.

          In all there would be 87 awards to be given away in different categories. These included three awards for each large State, having teacher strength of one lakh or more and two awards for each small State having teacher strength of less than one lakh. He said that each awardee teacher would get a laptop, a silver medal and a commendation certificate. All the winners would form a community of resource persons through networking.The cases complete in all respect might reach  the Directorate, School Education latest by March 31, 2013. Cases received after this date would not be entertained, he  added.