School Education-Supporting Andhra’s Learning Transformation (SALT) Programme
School Education-Supporting Andhra’s Learning Transformation (SALT) Programme- Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (ECCE)-60-day certificate course Conduct of Training to the SGTs (Secondary Grade Teachers) for 6 days in residential mode from 21-10-2024 to 26.10.2024 (first spell) Instructions- Issued -Reg
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1 NEP-2020, NIPUN Bharat guidelines and NCF FS-2022
2 MoU signed with ASER (Pratham) by Government of Andhra Pradesh, dated 17-08-2022.
3 Proceedings SS-15023/23/2023-SAMO-SSA Dated:09-10-2024 of the State Project Director, Samagra Shiksha AP.
ORDER:
All the District Educational Officers and Additional Project Coordinators of Samagra Shiksha in the State are informed that the State government is prioritizing foundational literacy and numeracy as part of aligning with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and other key frameworks. This focus on early childhood care and education (ECCE) is crucial for ensuring that children. develop essential skills at a young age.
In this context a comprehensive initiative aimed at enhancing the skills of Grade 1 and 2 teachers through a structured 60-day certificate course. This collaboration between the Department of School Education, Samagra Shiksha, and ASER (Pratham) emphasizes a blended learning approach, combining both offline and online training methods. This flexibility can help accommodate various teaching environments and learning styles, ultimately aiming to improve the quality of education in early grades over the course of three years.
Accordingly, a comprehensive training initiative is take-up by the department for enhancing the teaching skills among the secondary teachers. The 60-day certificate course (Gnana Prakash) for Key Resource Persons (KRPs) has been successfully implemented, along with the second layer of DRP trainings. Now, the focus shifts to providing ground-level training for 34,000 SGTs at the district level. This will take place over six days in a residential mode, organized into 14 spells starting from October 21, 2024, and concluding by February 1. 2025.
The total number of Secondary Grade Teachers (SGTs) to be trained across all districts of the state is tabulated below.
For providing trainings at district level for 60-day certificate course 1 primary teacher has been identified by the ASO&AMOs from the respective district who are dealing with Grade 1&2 and 9 venues have been identified and mapped the 26 districts to those 9 venues in order to start the ground level trainings from 21-10-2024.
The roles and responsibilities at the district level are proposed as below:
1. The District Educational Ofcer (DEO) will serve as the Chairman of the training program, ensuring its smooth execution. They will coordinate with DIET principals, District Academic Monitoring Officers (AMOs), Girl Child Development Officers (GCDOs), Inclusive Education Coordinators (IECo), Alternative School Coordinators (ALSCo), and clerical staff in the DEO office to facilitate effective training for SGTs. This collaboration is essential for organizing logistics, addressing any issues that arise, and ensuring that the training meets its objectives.
2. The District Educational Officers should ensure that the assigned SGTs are deputed to the training program on a spell-wise basis from their respective districts. It’s important to ensure that no teacher is sent to the training program more than once.
3. DIET is the nodal agency for academic training programmes on FLN and therefore, DIET principal where the venue is located will be the nodal officer and will act as Course Director and should see the training. process with the support of concerned DIET faculty who attended KRP trainings
4. AMOS where the venues are located has to look after the logistics, arrangements and other essentials required at the venues timely.
5. The list of the participants proceedings should be released at district level for each spell from the list which the state has received from the respective ASOS
6. “Since we have 34,000 Secondary Grade Teachers (SGTs) from all 26 districts, the participants’ list should be released at the district level for each spell, based on the list received from the respective ASOS. The proceedings for the participants’ list should also be issued at the district level accordingly.”
7. “The district officials responsible for each spell should be rotated based on the districts mapped to the respective venue. For example, at the Srikakulam venue, officials from Srikakulam district will take responsibility for the first spell, followed by Manyam for the second spell and so on. This rotation system should be applied to all venues, ensuring that all district officials share the responsibility for the successful conduction of the trainings.”
8. Each venue will have 4 in charges overseeing various aspects including coordination with vendors, food arrangements, technical support, accommodation, stationery and sanitation.
9. Concerned RJDs and DEOs are instructed to conduct the preparatory meetings with AMOS, ASOS, GCDOS, IECO, ALSCo and MEOs to send the participants to the mapped venues without fail
10. Monitoring committee to be formed at every venue with the mapped. district officials for monitoring the facilities and observe the sessions.
11.IFP Pannels should be installed by the DNOS (District Nodal Officer) with coordination of IFP vendors in each classroom and DEOs should make a follow up on this
12.2 DRPs should be allotted for each classroom and 1 KRP&1 MEO for each venue
13. The DEOs should not depute the single teachers from single teacher’s. schools for the trainings up to 4 spells and the state officials will notify the district officials with an alternative plan on how to train the single teacher. schools.
14.4 PETs (2 male and 2 female PETs) should be allotted in each venue for conducting the extracurricular activities.
15. Mobile phones should be deposited in the classroom by keeping them in silent mode and it can be used only in break times.
File No.SS-15023/23/2023-SAMO-SSA
16.G. Maheshwar Reddy, Teacher Training in charge of Samagra Shiksha, AP will be coordinating with logistics facilities across all the Venues in the state for successful completion of trainings.
The list of KRPs who are mapped to monitor and provide supportive supervision in 9 venues is enclosed in Annexure-l and contains DRPs who are mapped to the 9 venues to train the spell 1 participants is enclosed in Annexure-II.
In view of the above, the District Educational officers & Ex-Officio Project Coordinators, Samagra Shiksha and the Additional Project Coordinators, Samagra Shiksha in the state are hereby instructed to follow the above instructions scrupulously and depute the allotted SGTs number indicated in the table against the district to the respective training venues and ensure that all the allotted
SGTs spell wise to attend the FLN residential training without fail..
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