Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 7: A two-day national webinar on ‘Education and Leadership During A Crisis’, being organised by The School of Education, Central University of Jammu, under Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT) scheme, began here today with brain storming sessions.
The inaugural session of the webinar was graced by K K Shrama, Advisor to Lieutenant Governor; Prof Ashok Aima, Vice-Chancellor, Central University of Jammu; Anuradha Gupta, Director, School Education, Jammu; Prof A P Behera, Joint Director, CIET, NCERT, New Delhi; Prof Saroj Sharma, GGSIPU, New Delhi; Prof Rajeev Rattan Sharma, University of Jammu; Dr VPS Raju, NIEPA, New Delhi and Dr J N Baliya, CUJ and Institutional leaders from across the country. About 24 States are participating in the webinar through online mode.
Advisor K K Sharma, while delivering his presidential address, opined that on-line teaching-learning is the future of our education system. He suggested various initiatives which could be undertaken by the educational institutes to provide best alternative in the current scenario. He appealed the educational leaders and academicians to come forward with innovative and sustainable means of teaching-learning in coming days.
Prof Ashok Aima, Vice-Chancellor CUJ, highlighted various capacity building programmes being initiated by the faculty from Education Department. He emphasized the changing role of leadership from traditional to cooperative and collaborative with more involvement of subordinates in decision-making of the organization which can be more fruitful to the society at large.
Earlier, Dr J N Baliya, Programme Coordinator and Convenor of the webinar, said that this webinar is just the beginning of various other programmes to be organised in next couple of months.
Dr, Asit Mantry, facuty from Department of Educational Studies, CUJ and the Organising Secretary of the webinar, briefed the participants about outline of the webinar.
Director School Education, Jammu, Anuradha Gupta, said that the students should be given proper time for completing their learning and assessment related tasks. She focused on improvement of language skills, communication skills along with the value-addition, value-chain and value-enhancement.
Prof A P Behera, Joint Director, CIET, NCERT, New Delhi, highlighted various ICT tools and applications for teaching-learning at school level especially in these days.
Prof Saroj Sharma from GGSIPU, New Delhi, spoke on the decision-making which is a major issue during a crisis. The sessions were moderated by Dr Ritu Bakshi, Dr Aman, Dr Kiran, Dr Asit Mantry and Dr Ravi Vanguri.
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