Under the leadership of the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Goa, Shri Pramod Sawant, the Government of Goa has given high priority to the implementation of value education in schools across the State.
The educational materials for the ongoing value-education initiative, Mulyavardhan, have been redesigned by the Shantilal Muttha Foundation (SMF) to align with the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2023. These materials were reviewed and approved by expert groups constituted by SCERT, Goa in May 2024.
To enable teachers to effectively use the new Mulyavardhan materials, teacher training was planned in two stages:
- centralized training of government master resource persons (MRPs) by SMF staff, and
- block-level training of teachers by MRPs.
Accordingly, the training of MRPs was conducted in two phases:
- training of 66 MRPs for primary schools from 11th to 14th June 2024, and
- training of 48 MRPs for middle schools from 18th to 21st June 2024.
Since the new Mulyavardhan books were received from the printer only in the last week of September 2024, the block-level teacher training workshop could be scheduled only for October 2024.
SCERT and GEDC arranged a meeting with all the ADEIs and BRCCs to plan the block-level training. In this meeting, it was decided that primary-school teachers’ training would be conducted first. Accordingly, the block-level training of primary school teachers was conducted from 4-22 October 2024.