Education Department Kalon Inaugurate Teachers’ Training Course

Thursday, 2 February 2006, 11:00 AM

Dharamshala (TibetNet): Yesterday, Kalon for the Education Department of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), Thubten Lungrik, inaugurated his department’s 15-month teachers’ training course at the Sahara College for High Tibetan Studies, Dharamshala.

Addressing the inaugural ceremony, Kalon Thupten Lungrik appreciated and congratulated all the participants for their participation in this 15-month training course. Kalon then spoke on purposes of building separate schools for the Tibetan children and gave an overview of the present education system in our communities.

He stressed the importance of developing characteristics of a good teacher and a good human being, who can be an example to his or her students.

There are 33 graduate students participating in this Bachelor of Education (B. Ed) degree training course. During the course of training, they will be taught on how to develop teaching skills in connection with the new Basic Education Policy as well as modern education system.

Besides contemporary subjects and teaching methodology, the training also contain instructions on the qualities and characteristics that behove a teacher and methods of cultivation of pupils as given in traditional sources. History of traditional Tibetan education and Basic Education Policy will also be given to the trainees.

Present at the inaugural function were Geshe Kelsang Damdul, assistant director of the Institute of Buddhist Dialectic, Geshe Jampal Dakpa, principal of the Sahara College, Tsering Phuntsok and Tsering Samdup, education officers of the Department of Education.

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