CBSE launches Online Teachers Training Program on DIKSHA

CBSE has launched a training course for teachers on DIKSHA platform for capacity building.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has come up with online training courses for teachers on the DIKSHA platform to help them enhance and improve their skills. The courses will be based on selected CBSE training manuals and NCERT's NISHTHA modules.

Those teachers who are interested can register for the course on DIKSHA portal and complete the training course. CBSE has also released the training calendar for the upcoming online training on DIKSHA.

Presently, the Board has launched two courses - 'Pedagogy of Environmental Studies' and 'Health and Well-Being in Schools', and plans to launch more courses in the coming months.

Two courses, 'Pedagogy of Language' and 'Learning Outcomes and Pedagogy', will be launched on June 15, and 'Pedagogy of Mathematics' will be launched on June 29, 2020. To get access to the courses, teachers need to download the DIKSHA app on their smartphone or access the platform through their laptop or computer systems.

Those teachers who will successfully complete the training programme will be given digital certificates. Teachers can download the same from DIKSHA portal.

Earlier, CBSE had also introduced the Online Teacher Training Programme through its Centre of Excellence (CoE). The Board's decision to conduct online training for teachers came after the success of the technology-enabled pilot teacher training programme which was conducted during the third week of May.

After the success of the pilot training programme, CBSE launched a structured online teacher training programme. In the month of May, CBSE had planned over 1200 online sessions for teachers.

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