7th Orientation Course on Basic Education Policy for Tibetan Teachers Begins[Friday, 8 January 2010, 3:30 pm]
The nine-day
training aims to impart skills and training required for effective
implementation of the Basic Education Policy in the Tibetan schools.
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| Orientation course on the basic education policy for Tibetan schoolteachers gets underway/Photos:Tenzin Wangchuk |
Dharamsala:
The education department of the central Tibetan administration is
organising the 7th orientation course for Tibetan primary
schoolteachers on the basic education policy at the College of Higher
Tibetan Studies at Sarah near Dharamsala from 8 – 16 January. Forty-two
teachers from 10 different Tibetan schools, particularly those
administered by the Tibetan Children’s Village and Tibetan Homes
Foundation, are attending the training.Mr. Thubten Lungrig, Kalon for the department of education, delivered the opening address this morning. Speaking
on the objectives of introducing the basic education policy, Kalon
Thupten Lungrig said “the policy aims to develop and incorporate values
and culture that define Tibetan in the individual’s over all
characters.”“The policy broadly and basically aims to create a
‘Tibetan mind’ in individual’s personality amidst the growing trend of
‘westernisation drive’ especially among the youth,” he said.Thanking
the attending teachers, as many amongst them have already served for
more than two decades in academic circle, Kalon Thubten Lungrig lauded
their dedicated services and said they should lead others on this
profession.
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| Kalon Thubten Lungrig (1st R) delivers the opening address on 8 January 2010 |
He
urged the teachers to be loving and compassionate to the children, and
said the conventional ‘stick-induced learning’ strategy is an outdated
notion. The administration has invited a battery of resource
persons to teach on important subjects, such as child psychology,
concept of non-violence, inter-personal relation management, Tibetan
traditions and customs, basic education policy, Tibetan calligraphy and
language programme. The participants will also have interactive
sessions with the trainers on each topic.The
basic education policy, unanimously approved in 2004 by the 13th
Assembly of Tibetan People’s Deputies was founded on the study of inner
science, with the universal human values advocated by His Holiness the
Dalai Lama in general and on the matter of Tibetan education in
particular as its central theme. The
policy follows a three-language policy with Tibetan language as the
medium of teaching from the pre-primary level up to the class III,
while English and a third language would be taught from class IV and
class VI respectively.
