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Education minister vows to support QAED for teachers’ training
During his visit to the Quaid-e-Azam Academy for Educational Development (QAED) on Wednesday, Punjab School Education Minister Dr Murad Raas said that all financial and administrative support will be extended to QAED to improve its teachers’ training programmes to bring revolutionary changes for the maximum achievement of students learning outcomes in public schools. Director General […]
During his visit to the Quaid-e-Azam Academy for Educational Development (QAED) on Wednesday, Punjab School Education Minister Dr Murad Raas said that all financial and administrative support will be extended to QAED to improve its teachers’ training programmes to bring revolutionary changes for the maximum achievement of students learning outcomes in public schools. Director General of QAED Iqbal Hussain Khan gave a detailed briefing on the Continuous Professional Development Programme, the Punjab School Leadership Development Programme and the Punjab Education and English Language Initiative. The managerial and academic staff of QAED was also present during the briefing. The DG informed the minister that apart from providing different in-service trainings to the educational personnel of the Punjab, the QAED also supports other provinces for the capacity building of their trainers and curriculum developers as well. “Balochistan and Gilgit Baltistan will, in near future, replicate the continuous professional development and the promotion-linked training models of QAED”, he told the minister.
He explained that QAED has developed a pool of more than 20,000 teacher trainers on the latest pedagogical knowledge and skills for effective cascading of its capacity building initiatives. Dr Murad Raas appreciated the all-inclusive stratagem adopted by QAED to reach 400,000 teachers at their 53,000 schools. He admired the melange of resource materials and training modules developed by QAED using expertise from both the public and the private sectors. He was much admiring on the consultative expertise of reputable private educational institutes used by QAED for its promotion-linked trainings of teachers.
Speaking at the meeting, the education minister promised that School Education Department will resume the pre-service teacher education courses in the 29 district campuses of QAED. He asked the QAED to coordinate with federal and provincial Higher Education Commissions for developing need-based syllabi for pre-service teacher education. He held the QAED team in high regard and assured Government of Punjab’s full support for its efforts to bring quality education in public schools.
Published in Daily Times, November 29th 2018.
