Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Applications invited for National Awards to teachers

by Haryananewswire (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH, DEC 7
The Central Government has invited nominations to confer National Awards to the teachers for the year 2011. An official spokesman said here today that in Haryana all District Education Officers and District Elementary Education Officers have been directed to recommend the cases for the National Award by December 15.
He said that the names of the teachers for these awards would be first recommended by the Block Education Officers to the District Level Committee comprised of District Education Officer, Principal, District Institute of Education and Training (DIET), Principal of Senior Secondary School and Principal of Navodaya School of the district.
The Committee would recommend the names to the State Level Committee which would finally recommend the names of teachers for these awards to Government of India. The State Level Committee was comprised of Director Secondary Education, Additional or Joint Director Administration, Director State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) and nominee of the Government of India. He said that the categories of teachers eligible for nominations would be primary teachers who were teaching upto class 8th and secondary teachers who were teaching classes 9th to 12th.
The eligibility for these awards included classroom teachers with atleast 15 years of regular teaching experience and headmasters and Principals with 20 years of regular teaching experience. For teachers promoting integrated inclusive education, the regular teaching experience would be reduced from 15 years to 10 years and in case of Headmasters and Principals it would be reduced from 20 years to 15 years.
He said that the main consideration for awards would be academic efficiency including results, teacher’s products and teaching innovations and personal achievements which were good annual confidential reports, personal conduct, team spirit and academic growth like acquisition of higher qualifications.

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