Our Correspondent
Kohima, Jan.17 (EMN): Additional mission director of Samagra Shiksha, Limawabang Aier on Friday stressed on the importance of communication and the role of administrators in schools for holistic growth and progress.
“We have so many drop-out students from the elementary school, and if this continues, there will be no literate person in Nagaland after 35 years. Let us focus on elementary education first before high school," he stated during the introductory session of a two-day training programme for educational administrators on academic supervision and monitoring and educational administration and management, organised by Samagra Shiksha at SIRD Auditorium in Kohima on January 17.
Acknowledging that communication is needed to disseminate information on time, he asked the officials to use social media platforms like Whatsapp or find other means for quick communication. “People cannot wait for our information, so we need to hurry up (sic) with the information system,” he added.
He said that 'administration is not just going to school and seeing how they are progressing' and advised them to know what is happening in and around the school. "As administrators, you have to know which file or paper has to go where,” he told the officials.
“Academic supervision means not only checking teachers’ attendance; but it is to motivate teachers and we are supposed to invoke their aspirations,” he stated, adding that it is their duty to motivate teachers to perform better.
Stating that “there are teachers who hesitate to speak English,” he requested them to use the language as the medium of instruction. “Most of our students cannot form a single English sentence including our officers, and we should try to avoid such criticism in future,” he said.
“Let us all sacrifice for our state so that it will benefit us in the long run and therefore, please take all the work seriously,” he appealed. He asked the officials to follow the academic calendar issued by the department to make 'schooling meaningful'.
Assistant mission director of Samagra Shiksha Kelhikha Kenye stated, “We need to constantly make effort to build a robust education system by improving our schools through constant supervision and monitoring of our schools."
He said that everyone is aware of the urgency to improve the education system in the state by improving administration and management of our schools, and this can be brought about "if we work out a mechanism for effective supervision and monitoring of our schools by extending constant academic supervision."
“Reports on learning outcomes and performance of our schools are a concern for all though many government schools are performing exceedingly well,” he said, adding that ‘it calls for all of us to work hard to improve our system collectively’.
He also asked the education officials to train the teachers on evaluating students and to solve the problem with the hope that quality teaching and learning will take place in schools, which will lead to improvement of educational institutions and education system in the state.