8 Days Teachers’ Orientation Program (TOP) on Vision for Holistic Value-Based Education (22-29 June 2024)
With the vision to spread the ethos of value education, fostering individual and societal transformation through education to achieve a just and equitable society, Value Education Cell AKGEC Ghaziabad conducted an 8-day (22-29 June 2024) Teacher’s Orientation Program for the school teachers of Saraswati Vidya Mandir Rajnagar and Amrapali Global English School, Vasundhara Ghaziabad. As a great success of the previous ‘3-Day TOP’ held during 20 – 22 May 2024 at AKGEC, the 8-Day TOP requested by the principal of Saraswati Vidya Mandir was well accepted by Director General Dr R K Agarwal under the extension activity of VE Cell AKGEC. A total of 41 participants actively attended the TOP. They interacted on various issues and challenges in education in the light of proposals shared with them in a self-explorative manner. The participating teachers strongly felt the need for such holistic education that can help students realise their full human potential to ensure an equitable and just society, as expected in the new National Education Policy.
A few teachers shared their transformative experiences of the program in the presence of the Director General, Dr R K Agarwal, Chairperson, VE Cell AKGEC, along with the chief guests, Ms Deepti Mittal, Director, Saraswati Vidya Mandir Schools, and Mr Pankaj Kumar Sharma principal, Saraswati Vidya Mandir, Rajnagar. These experiences were a testament to the program's positive impact, showing that the participants received the contents well and found them urgently needed by their school teachers and students to move towards a just and equitable society. This success story is a beacon of hope, demonstrating the potential for positive change in our education system.
3 Days Teachers’ Orientation Program (TOP) on Vision for Holistic Value-Based Education (20-22 May 2024)
A 3-day (20-22 May 2024) Teachers’ Orientation Program (TOP) on “The Vision for Holistic Value-Based Education- Realizing the Aspiration articulated in NEP 2020” was organised by Value Education (VE) Cell of Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College, Ghaziabad. The TOP, a program of utmost importance, was an extension activity of VE Cell as Regional Nodal Centre for Value Education, AKTU, Lucknow. A total of 54 participants, including Principals, Advisors, Academic Coordinators, PGTs, TGTs and Counsellors from 12 schools in Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, attended the TOP with great enthusiasm and keenness, inspired by the vision of holistic value-based education. The TOP focuses on the role of education in developing human-friendly and nature-friendly mindsets in students through holistic teaching. The sessions include all aspects of human potential, like the mechanism of decision-making, health hygiene, mutually fulfilling interactions, the effort for a just and equitable society, and environmentally responsible conduct, which are aligned with the expectations stated in NEP 2020.
Prof. Gopal Babu, Coordinator, VE Cell was the Resource Person of the TOP. He, with his team members, facilitated and smoothly conducted TOP. The Director, Dr Hemant Ahuja, and Head of VE Cell, Prof V.K. Parashar, inaugurated the session, and the Director General, Dr R.K. Agarwal, graced the closing ceremony of TOP. Shri R.P. Singh, Joint Secretary and Dr Biswajit Saha, Director, Department of Skill Education, CBSE, Ministry of Education, Government of India, New Delhi, were invited as guests in the closing ceremony. The Director General, with both the invited dignitaries, distributed certificates to all the successful participants. The Director General appreciated the team for the successful conduct of the TOP and expressed his generous intent for many more such future programs with the schools that want to be developed as a living model of values. All TOP culminated with a high tea with the participants along the Director General, Deans, HoDs and Section In-charges of the college.
