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NCERT counselling course for teachers

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32 teachers attend six-month course

NEW DELHI: "Teachers are like counsellors and we need to equip them with skills for building a relationship with students based on trust, security and safety.

This is the key to the entire teaching-learning process and essential for encouraging students to share their intimate problems with teachers," said former National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) director A.K. Sharma.

He was speaking at a function organised earlier this week to mark the end of the six-month diploma course in Guidance and Counselling (2005-06) offered by Department of Educational Psychology and Foundations of Education.

The course was organised for 32 teachers and teacher-educators from Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Manipur, Kerala, Bihar, Meghalaya, Rajasthan, Karnataka, and Pondicherry. The course also had seven participants from Bhutan and one from Fiji Island.

"Guidance and counselling are meant not only for helping students resolve education or career related problems but it has to enhance every aspect of school life and cover wide range of concerns such as improving peer and family relationships, resolving personal, social and value conflicts, time management, nurturing interests, hobbies and coping with stress and demands of day to day life," added Prof. Sharma.

The course is based on the premise that every teacher is a counsellor and a mentor rather than only a subject expert and the content is aimed at enhancing teachers' understanding and insights into guidance and counselling processes and procedures, dynamics of human adjustment and career development, psychological assessment and appraisal and uses of career information in career planning and guidance.

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