EMN
Dimapur, April 30
Private schools in Nagaland want the government to introduce changes in the academic calenadar so that there would be more working days for schools without having to leave out the high school and higher secondary classes. The All Nagaland Private Schools’ Association met on April 29 in Kohima. About 140 heads of private schools from across the state attended the meet, the association said in a press release issued to the media on Thursday. The chairperson of the Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE), Asano Sekhose, was the chief guest.
During the meeting, the members of the association said the government should introduce changes in policy “such as change in academic sessions which would add more working days to the school calendar without singling out classes 10, 11 and 12 only to take classes for nine months in a year, which was happening now”.
In the new proposed academic session, a school would be having classes for nine months a year which would improve the teaching learning process and thereby produce “very good results,” the press release form the organization stated.
In here address in the latter sessions, NBSE’s chairperson Asano Sekhose spoke about the educational system in Nagaland state and the ways to making education ‘learner-oriented’.
‘For so long education was teaching oriented but now we have to make the paradigm shift from teaching to learning,’ she is said to have told the heads of schools. She emphasized the duties of the heads of schools especially in leading reforms that would raise students’ achievements.
‘The role of the teacher and the role of the parent are equally important’, Sekhose said.
‘Students are spending 15% of their time at school and the rest of the time they spend at home. So without active participation of the parents students cannot become achievers’.
She reiterated the importance of teaching values such as honesty, interiority, humility, dignity of labor, character-building and discipline. ‘Our children are our assets. We need to take care of them,’ the NBSE chief said in encouragement. She encouraged the heads of schools to keep ‘updating themselves in all areas, learn new things and improve the system’ so that their efforts can become fruitful products.
