The"Wake up Calls" to students and parents for motivating them forpreparing well for the Board Examinations, is an innovative good practicestarted by dedicated teachers as part of their concerted and consistent effortsto accomplish "MIssion Shat pratishat".
Thisgood practice has been discussed in the Motivational Meetings being convenedfor giving a boost to ‘Mission Shat Pratishat" by the education departmenttime and again.
TheState Education Department has just been playing a role of “catalyst “ andmotivating the officials, teachers and community for emulating good practicesshared in the motivational meetings. The Department has not issued any officialorders. The Mentors are just playing a role of “facilitators”; asking them toshare these good practices in Social Media groups to motivate others.
MissionShat Pratishat was kick-started by Chief Minister Capt Amrinder Singh; that’swhy it has assumed much significance, says District Education Officer (SE),Jagjit Singh.
“TheMission is Not just the wishful thinkingbut a well thought-up strategy planned by the department to raise the academicstandards of the govt schools as well as make the govt schools as centres ofacademic excellence”, DEO further said.
“Witha view to mobilizing the students and parents, the morning calls are being madeby the school heads, teachers and mentors voluntarily to encourage them tostudy hard for the upcoming board exams”, said Amarjit Khatkar, Principal,Government Senior Secondary School, Mukandpur.
VijayKumar, Principal, Govt. Sr. Sec. School, Malewal further elaborated that Govtschool teachers had been braving all odds be it covid or the extreme cold weather and resorting to the innovativetechniques; during prevailing inclinedsituations; so as to bring about quality education in its true spirit.
KavitaSabharwal, state awardee, English Mistress, Government Senior Secondary Schoolfor boys, Rahon said that the teachershad voluntarily been taking extraclasses both physical and virtual as per the requirements to achieve missionshat pratishat.
Meanwhile,the Education Department has mobilised the school heads to prepare a data baseon the basis of the performance of the students in the house examinations sothat a micro planning for the weak, average and meritorious students could beprepared.
“Thesimplified study materials, question banks, model question papers for thestudents and requisite material for meritorious students have been prepared andbeing uploaded on Punjab Educare App. The study material is also being providedto the students through a well knit vast network of district and block levelmentors. The teachers at grass root levels has been exhibiting exemplary commendable zeal and enthusiasm to getthese innovative practices implementedat the cutting edge levels,” said DEO (SE), Jagjit Singh.