To train all in-service teachers in affiliated schools, CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) has reportedly set up a total of 16 Centres of Excellence (or COEs) across the country. There will be two types of the training in question: generic, and subject-specific. 23 subject-specific training courses have been allotted for Higher Secondary classes, whereas 22 courses are there for generic training, which will focus on a variety of topics: from inclusive education, art integration, happy classrooms, adolescent education programs, to dire topics like cyber safety and security, and others.
According to the NEP (National Education Policy) 2020, all school teachers nationwide are recommended to participate in more than 50 hours of intensive training as Continuous Professional Development (CPD).
CBSE will ensure that each Government teacher receives at least 25 hours of training as organised by the Board or State Government or any Regional Teachers’ Training Institutions, while the remaining 25 hours of training must be provided by the school itself. For this, CBSE has set up a higher committee that will overlook the quality of the training imparted. An Annual Training Calendar dating from April to March will be developed by each State/UT/Body specifying the training requirements.
All State Governments and UTs have finalised the modes of the training, as they will sponsor and affiliate online registration from their respective Government, Govt. aided, and PPP (Public-Private Partnership) schools the CBSE portal for training.
Recently, CBSE has undertaken a large number of government schools in its list of affiliations: 124 secondary and higher secondary schools in Ladakh, Uttarakhand, and more than 1000 in Andhra Pradesh itself.
