Campus Report :
A 6-day long training program on “Teaching Quality Improvement (TQI)” jointly organized by the Institute of Education and Research (IER) of Dhaka University (DU) and the Ministry of Education began on Monday at the IER Building of the University. DU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique inaugurated it as chief guest.
Director of the IER of DU Prof Dr Md. Abdul Awal Khan presided over the function while Director of TQI Project Bannamali Bhowmick addressed it as special guest. Project Coordinator Prof Dr Quazi Afroz Jahanara delivered welcome speech.
DU Vice-Chancellor Prof Arefin Siddique urged the teachers to present themselves as icon personality for the students in their daily life. They have to deliver comprehensive lecture for the students to make them future leaders in the country as well as forward looking citizen, he said. Teachers have to be well prepared to present lecture before the students.
They should play the pioneering role to develop mental faculty of the students, he mentioned. The VC paid glowing tributes to the memory of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the month of national mourning. He said, Bangabandhu had stressed the need for development of education system in the country. Therefore, he had formed the Dr. Qudrat-e-Khuda Education Commission and nationalized all the primary schools during his regime, he pointed out. The VC said, Bangladesh could achieve hundred percent literacy rate, if Bangabandhu would remain alive till now. A group of barbaric conspirators brutally killed Bangabandhu to thwart the spirits of our Liberation War as well as the democracy and development of the country, he added.
It may be mentioned that the IER of DU organized this program to produce master trainers for the field level teachers’ under the TQI project. A total of 90 teachers from various government and non-government institutions are participating in this training program.
