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A 10-day teachers' training programme by 10 resource persons from the Gandhigram Rural University of India was conducted from 5 - 14 December 2009 in Kandy and Hatton

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A 10-day teachers’ training programme by 10 resource persons from the Gandhigram Rural University of India was conducted from 5 – 14 December 2009 in Kandy and Hatton. The training programmes were conducted as part of an initiative put in place by the Government of India in 2006, under which resource persons in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology and English visit Sri Lanka for training Sri Lankan teachers in these fields in various schools. This year, the training programme for English, Maths and Biology was conducted in Trinity College, Kandy while the training programme in Physics and Chemistry was conducted in SIDA Centre, Hatton. Nearly 200 teachers from the Central and Uva Provinces joined the 10-day programme, which was organized with the cooperation of the Ministry of Education of the Central Province. This year’s programmes focused on the “Methodology of Teaching” and were greatly appreciated by the trainee teachers who familiarized themselves with new teaching methods and learnt about new concepts of presenting subjects and solving problems.

Twenty teachers in the abovementioned five disciplines have been selected for a further 4-week training programme at the National Institute for Technical Teachers’ Training and Research in Chennai, which will be held in January-February 2010.

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