Teachers to have online boot camp on problem solving

Initiated by the School Education Department, the 12-day boot camp will provide coaching to teachers in the areas of data analysis, artificial intelligence, web developing and machine learning, and scientific computing.

A senior official from the Directorate of School Education told DT Next that boot camp would be a technical training programme that would teach skills, especially in the field of Information Technology, to handle students in the classrooms.

More than 50,000 teachers from government and aided schools, particularly those teaching Mathematics and Computer, are expected to be benefited from the programme. The official said the training would be conducted by experts in Amphisoft Technologies, which had tied up with the government.

“The objective of the online course include familiarising them with writing algorithms, fundamentals of python and philosophy of problem solving,” he said adding that it would also help teachers to implement different programming constructs and deconstructing problems into functions.

Claiming that the programme would enable teachers to teach efficiently, as students studying in high and higher secondary have various subjects in Python, the official said 10 real-time exercises would be taught every day so that each teacher would have completed at 120 real-time exercises at the end of the training.

“Each teacher who register through E-box colleges portal will have two hours online session and six hours practice session,” he said.

The official added that for higher secondary teachers who are deployed for answer sheet evaluation, the programme would be completed before the beginning of evaluation duty.