CBSE release trainer’s manual to train teachers in ‘ethics’

Surjit Kumar Dhal,Bhubaneswar, April 10: To create ‘ethical leaders of tomorrow’, The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) launch a capacity building programme for teachers from academic session 2019-20.This also aims to help teachers instil and reinforce a code of ethics in their classrooms.

The course called, ‘a trainer’s manual for educators’ integrity and ethics’ includes topics ranging from cognitive dissonance, Kohlberg’s stage of moral development and what the board calls ‘A to Z of Ethics’.

The programme will be launched in this current academic session of 2019-20 itself. The two day activity workshop has been carefully designed for teachers to probe and prod various thoughts and actions. It includes topics ranging from (Cognitive dissonance), Understanding Integrity, Kohlberg’s stages of moral development and A to Z of Ethics.
The training and activities are interspersed with role plays, anecdotes and approaching Ethics and Integrity through AV media, Teacher/elders as role model and creating space for Integrity in Classrooms.

The teachers will be trained to teach students five points — responsibility, respect, fairness, trustworthiness and honesty through “variety of historical topics and current events”.

As per the official report, the new course’s “objective is to create an environment in which existing practices and policies can be critically examined and students can be sensitised.”