The British Council in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Education organised a weeklong workshop for 30 government school teachers to improve their performance in classrooms by enhancing their ability to use English language in basic teaching methodology.
The workshop was the part of "English for Teaching: Teaching for English (ETTE)" programme of the Education Ministry, said a statement issued here on Tuesday. The participants from Islamabad, Peshawar, Mardan, Nowshehra, Fata, Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Tando Allahyar, Naudero, Bahawalpur, Gujrat, Jhang and Muzaffargarh received the training of teaching English language through activity based learning.
The workshop would make the trainers to train more teachers in their respective areas. Each out of these 30 teachers will train approximately 25 more teachers reaching a total number of 750 teachers to be trained by March 30. Nabeel Alvi, Head of programmes, British Council informed that over the next three years, ETTE aimed at training 20,000 government schoolteachers across Pakistan to improve their teaching skills in classrooms.
Alvi praised the role of both Federal and Provincial Ministries of Education for their co-operation in selecting teachers, providing venues for training and helping teachers to implement and further cascade the training to their peers on their returns. He also mentioned that the British Council had also planned to expand the vision of ETTE through establishing 10 resource centres across the country with all necessary facilities.
"In this regard, the venues will be provided by Ministries of Education in all four provinces, while British Council will arrange reading material and other facilities from the UK for which we have allocated three million rupees," he said. Those resource centres would provide teachers an opportunity of self-learning through the best quality material available from the UK and those centres would be operational before the end of March, he stated.
The ETTE has been started in the Central and South Asia region including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan and is particularly for the teachers who have not yet been benefited from any training or development opportunity. The aim is to build the ccapacity of government schoolteachers who have not yet benefited through any training as yet to work towards positive social change. In this regard, a series of workshops across Pakistan are planned to be held in the next three months.