Dignitaries and resource persons along with participants of
a three-day training on career counseling during the inaugural session at SCERT
in Kohima on Tuesday.
- KOHIMA — The
second phase three-day training on career counseling for block level resource
persons, organised by Samagra Shiksha Nagaland and Directorate of School
Education in collaboration with Antarang Foundation, Mumbai, and YouthNet, got
underway at SCERT in Kohima on Tuesday.
- Speaking at the inaugural programme, Kevileno Angami,
commissioner and secretary of School Education and SCERT, asserted that it
should be the responsibility of schools to provide career guidance to the
students. She expressed hope that they would be able to gradually provide
career counselor teachers in the schools who could guide the students and help
them choose the right profession.
- She stated that schools should be a place where children
gain knowledge, life skills and social skills to enable them find a career
path. To ensure the students find a sustainable livelihood, she stated that the
schools, through the teachers, should play the medium.
- She recalled how in the past years, the students chose their
own career paths without any guidance from others and without knowing their own
strengths and weakness. She pointed out that students even today opt for
subjects without knowing their own strengths and also decide their career by
following advice of their parents and friend.
- While reminding that children in the secondary stage opt for
subjects based on peer pressure, she called upon the teachers to guide them.
- Dwelling on NEP 2020, which talks about flexibility of
curriculum and disciplines, she mentioned that schools are required to provide
all the disciplines in the schools and colleges in the days to come so that
students have the flexibility and option to choose.
- As the government has mandated providing vocational
education in schools, she informed that they are providing vocational education
in more than 100 schools through Samagra Shiksha. She added that such
facilities would be extended to other schools in the days to come.
