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How Telangana has revamped its training of teachers, administrators and top education officials

How Telangana has revamped its training of teachers, administrators and top education officials

<div id&equals;"content-body-71244371" class&equals;"articlebodycontent col-xl-9 col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-12">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"schemaDiv" id&equals;"schemaDiv" itemprop&equals;"articleBody">&NewLine;<p>Picture a training hall somewhere in a State capital&period; It could be a residential multi-day teacher training or the opening session of a capacity building programme for Block Education Officers&comma; or a leadership workshop for senior officials of the education department&period; The details may differ&comma; but the atmosphere&comma; remarkably&comma; does not&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&lpar;Sign up for THEdge&comma; The Hindu’s weekly education newsletter&period;&rpar;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The room is attentive&comma; as someone senior in the system has addressed the gathering and emphasised the importance of this training session&period; Participants take careful notes and the trainers convey their ideas with visible conviction&period; A well-designed module moves through its paces&period; By the end of the last day&comma; people generally leave with a lot of positive energy&comma; the sense that something useful has happened&comma; that they now know something they did not know before&comma; that they are ready to do things differently&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The authors of this piece sat in rooms just like this&comma; across levels and across various States&period; One of us as a senior official&comma; watching systems mobilise&comma; while the other as a practitioner&comma; tracking what follows&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And we have quietly observed and asked ourselves as to how that buoyant ebullience of the last day in the workshop can be sustained&period; Because what happens next is almost always the same&comma; whether the participants are teachers&comma; Block&sol;Mandal Education Officers &lpar;BEOs&sol;MEOs&rpar;&comma; Cluster Head Masters&comma; or the leadership in School Education&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The training ends&comma; everyone returns to where they came from&comma; and within weeks&comma; sometimes less&comma; the intended change often becomes uneven&comma; fragile&comma; or much slower than the training had promised&period;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4 class&equals;"sub&lowbar;head">The training challenge is not just about teachers<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>When we talk about training in education&comma; the conversation almost always circles back to teachers&period; And the concern is legitimate&comma; classroom instruction is where children’s learning is ultimately won or lost&period; But focusing only on teacher training misses something fundamental&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The education system trains at every level&period; Teachers are trained on pedagogy and classroom practice&period; Middle managers – be it Cluster Head Masters&comma; Mandal&sol;Block Education Officers &lpar;BEOs&rpar;&comma; District Educational Officers &lpar;DEOs&rpar;&comma; Academic Resource Persons &lpar;ARPs&rpar;&comma; are trained on school supervision&comma; data use&comma; academic mentoring and review processes&period; Senior leaders attend leadership programmes on systemic reform&comma; reviews&comma; planning and governance&period; Each of these trainings costs time&comma; money and organisational energy&period; And almost all of them share the same structural weakness&colon; they are designed around the content to be delivered and rarely&comma; around the behaviour to be changed and how to create the enabling environment required for that behaviour to survive after the training&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A District Education Officer &lpar;DEO&rpar; who attends a three-day programme on using learning data to drive district planning may return to his&sol;her district fully informed but may find it difficult to move away from the conventional command and control review mode&period; An MEO trained on academic mentoring may visit schools with a new vocabulary but have the same checklist to complete as earlier&period; A Cluster Head Master oriented on how to make cluster meetings more purposeful may return to conducting them exactly as before&comma; because the governance environment around him has not changed&comma; and the hierarchical&comma; top-down&comma; prescriptive organisational environment doesn’t encourage creativity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The failure&comma; therefore&comma; is not of individuals&period; It is systemic and it operates at every level&period; The point&comma; therefore&comma; is not to blame teachers or officials for not changing fast enough&period;&comma; but to ask whether the system has encouraged the creation of a larger vision widely shared and internalised by all functionaries&period; Do all the functionaries at various levels know the central purpose of their enterprise&quest; Do all of them feel they should and have the capacity to advance the central mission &&num;8211&semi; in this case&comma; the overall development of every child under their care&quest; Do they return from a training session with a feeling that their competence and confidence have been enhanced&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4 class&equals;"sub&lowbar;head">Starting with the right question<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>The design question that drives most training&comma; at every level&comma; is&colon; what should participants learn&quest; What content should we cover&quest; What modules should we sequence&quest; How many days do we need&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>These are delivery questions&period; The right question is different&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For teachers&colon; what must change in the classroom so that children learn better&quest; Can I make every child learn and become more competent&quest; What resources should I have and how do I use them creatively to make learning happen&quest; How do I relate to each child and how do I connect with their experiences at home and the community&quest; How mindful am I in responding to the learning needs and styles of each child&quest; What support do I need from mentors&comma; peers&comma; government and community to become a more effective professional&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For middle managers&colon; what must change in how a Cluster Head Master conducts a school visit&comma; how an MEO runs a monthly review&comma; how an Academic Resource Person provides academic feedback&comma; so that these interactions actually improve what teachers do in classrooms&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For senior leaders&colon; what must change in how education officials design reviews&comma; interpret data&comma; ask questions in meetings and signal priorities&comma; so that the system below them is oriented toward child development and learning outcomes rather than administrative compliance&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Each level has a specific behaviour that needs to shift&period; Each behaviour must connect to a visible outcome&period; And each training must be designed keeping in view that outcome&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When that chain is explicit&comma; participants return with something more than information&period; They return with a purpose&period; When it is absent&comma; they return with notes they may or may not revisit and a certificate they will most likely file away&period; They may even return with intent to transform&comma; but find the working environment not conducive enough to convert intent into practice&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4 class&equals;"sub&lowbar;head">The enabling environment problem&comma; across every level<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>Here is what the field teaches&comma; over and again&colon; intent to change and ability to change are not the same thing&period; The environment people return to is often more powerful than anything the training teaches&period; The external environment must not be at variance with the core work of teaching and learning&period; If it is&comma; the training message weakens and motivation wanes after the participant returns to the workplace&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A teacher comes back motivated to try a new approach to reading instruction&period; But the timetable demands syllabus coverage&period; The visiting official asks questions unrelated to what the training emphasised&period; The review meeting tracks compliance data&comma; not classroom practice&period; The headmaster is preoccupied with administrative demands&period; Within weeks&comma; the new behaviour fades&comma; not from lack of will&comma; but from an indication that something else matters more The system must have a common&comma; overarching vision and an all hands on the deck approach&period; The &OpenCurlyQuote;Why’ of the mission must be internalised across the system&period; The &OpenCurlyQuote;What’ and the &OpenCurlyQuote;How’ can be continuously shaped to achieve the common&comma; overarching objective&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is especially important in the case of classroom inputs such as teacher guides&comma; student workbooks and assessment tools&period; A workbook is not merely a printed booklet to be completed&period; Used well&comma; it can become an assistant teacher — organising practice&comma; giving children meaningful work&comma; helping the teacher reach every child&comma; and creating time for the teacher to support those who are struggling&period; But for this to happen&comma; teachers need clarity on why the workbook exists&comma; how it connects to pedagogy&comma; how it should be transacted in the classroom&comma; and how it can help children learn at different levels&period; Without that clarity&comma; even a good material can become another compliance object&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Recent field conversations&comma; including discussions after assessment cycles&comma; also remind us that teachers do not reject support&period; Many teachers value structured materials&comma; mentoring and clearer academic direction&period; What they often seek is support in a form they can absorb — practical&comma; timely&comma; non-threatening and connected to the classroom problem in front of them&period; The question is not simply whether support is available&period; It is whether the teacher experiences it as &OpenCurlyQuote;doable’&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The same dynamic operates one level up&period; A Cluster Head Master returns from training on academic mentoring&period; But his monthly school visits are still evaluated on whether registers are complete&comma; not whether he asked the right questions about children’s learning&period; The conversation he was trained to have with teachers never happens&comma; because nobody above him is asking whether it happened&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And one level above that&period; A senior official attends a leadership programme on outcome-focused governance&period; He&sol;She returns to review meetings that are structured entirely around inputs such as how many training days were completed&comma; how many schools were visited&comma; and how many reports were submitted&period; The data on learning outcomes sits in a dashboard that nobody opens during the meeting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The system shapes behaviour at every level&comma; even when it does not intend to&period; We ask people to think about outcomes while rewarding them for outputs&period; We ask them to have different kinds of conversations about reflecting on their practice while filling their time with mundane routines&period; These contradictions are not invisible to participants&period; They read the environment clearly and respond to what it actually rewards&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Telangana’s experience with Foundational Literacy and Numeracy offers a useful illustration of what alignment across levels can look like&period; Rather than designing training for teachers in isolation&comma; the State has worked to ensure that what teachers are trained on specific classroom behaviours is tied to where children currently are in their learning&comma; is the same thing that Cluster Head Masters and Academic panels look for during school visits&comma; that MEOs ask about in mandal reviews&comma; and that district-level conversations respond to&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The intent is that every touchpoint reinforces rather than replaces&period; That the teacher experiences the system as a coherent&comma; competence-building&comma; confidence-enhancing&comma; creativity-nurturing organisation&comma; not as a sequence of disconnected and often competing demands&period; A teacher should not hear one message in training&comma; another during school visits&comma; another in cluster meetings&comma; and another in district reviews&period; Unless everyone is on the same page&comma; even a well-designed training can become a weak signal in a noisy system&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4 class&equals;"sub&lowbar;head">Continuous Professional Development&colon; Reinforcement over repetition<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>Even with well-designed training and a coherent enabling environment&comma; gaps will emerge&period; This is not a failure&comma; it is the natural course of any behaviour change process&period; A teacher who understood the concept in the training hall will encounter something in her classroom that the training did not fully prepare her for&period; An MEO trained on academic mentoring will face situations where his new skills feel uncertain&period; A senior official will find that the questions she learned to ask in a workshop land very differently in an actual review meeting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is precisely where Continuous Professional Development becomes essential — not as a calendar of fresh workshops on fresh topics&comma; but as a sustained&comma; structured process of returning to the same terrain with greater depth each time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The monthly cluster meeting&comma; where teachers gather under the leadership of their Cluster Head Master&comma; is perhaps the most underutilised platform in Indian school education&period; Currently&comma; these meetings function largely as information relays&colon; instructions passed down&comma; data collected upward&comma; and sessions that nobody is truly prepared for&period; They could function very differently&period; A cluster meeting that returns month after month to the same foundational questions&comma; are children reading&quest; are they reasoning&quest; what is getting in the way&quest; what did you try&quest;&comma; creates the conditions for professional learning that no residential training can replicate&period; It is proximate to the classroom&comma; grounded in real children&comma; and cumulative in a way that annual events can never be&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The design of such meetings requires nuance&period; They need not be over-scripted to the point where teachers and Cluster Head Masters become passive recipients&period; Nor can they be left completely loose&comma; where the meeting depends only on individual initiative&period; The real opportunity lies in semi-structured professional spaces&comma; enough structure to keep the conversation anchored in children’s learning&comma; and enough agency for Cluster Head Masters and teachers to respond to their own classroom realities&period; Telangana’s recent efforts reflect this thinking&comma; where training design and enabling conditions are being aligned more deliberately so that what is discussed in professional spaces is reinforced through school visits&comma; reviews and classroom practice&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The same principle applies at higher levels&period; District review meetings that return&comma; month after month&comma; to the quality of academic interactions at the school level&comma; rather than cycling through new administrative priorities each time&comma; build the kind of collective focus that produces genuine system improvement&period; Leadership convenings that revisit the same strategic questions&comma; with fresh evidence from the field&comma; deepen understanding in ways that one-time programmes cannot&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Across all of this&comma; technology extends the reach of reinforcement considerably&comma; and it is perhaps here that the greatest untapped opportunity lies&period; Short videos demonstrating a teaching technique&comma; structured reflection prompts&comma; curated examples of children’s work at different learning levels&comma; these can bridge the space between monthly meetings&comma; keeping the focus alive when the next formal gathering is weeks away&period; Not as a substitute for human support and dialogue&comma; but as reinforcement available precisely when it is most needed&colon; in the quiet moments between one cluster meeting and the next&comma; when a teacher is unsure and has nobody immediately to ask&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Technology helps most when it acts not as another reporting layer&comma; but as a quiet companion to practice&comma; offering short demonstrations&comma; worked examples&comma; peer videos&comma; classroom prompts&comma; or simple diagnostics that guide teachers in real time&period; Its value lies not in replacing human support&comma; but in making it more timely&comma; accessible and usable&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is also where mastery learning becomes central&period; Foundational learning cannot improve by rushing through textbooks&semi; children need time&comma; practice and feedback to truly grasp concepts&period; Classrooms must balance teacher-led instruction&comma; peer learning and independent work&comma; allowing teachers to support those who need it most&period; Training must help teachers build this balance in practice&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The design principle&comma; ultimately&comma; is simple- the same core behaviours&comma; returned to repeatedly&comma; at increasing depth&comma; in spaces as close as possible to where the work actually happens&period; Not different topics each time and a training for its own sake&comma; but a system that understands that behaviour change is slow&comma; that it requires iteration across all levels&comma; and that the work of professional development&comma; whether for a teacher in a village school or a Director in the State secretariat&comma; is never really finished&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4 class&equals;"sub&lowbar;head">The only measure that matters<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>As States begin another annual round of trainings&comma; the temptation will be to measure delivery&colon; batches completed&comma; districts covered&comma; officials oriented&comma; attendance recorded&period; These things matter but are not the only ones that should be measured&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The real measure at every level is whether something changed in the class rooms&comma; in the daily lives of young children&comma; whether schools are creative hubs of joyful learning and whether the teachers enjoy teaching and catalysing the all-round development of every child&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Did the senior official’s review meeting surface a different conversation than it did six months ago&quest; Did the MEO’s school visit produce a genuine academic dialogue with the headmaster&quest; Did the Cluster Head Master ask a teacher something she had to think about&quest; Did the teacher feel more able to reach every child in the classroom&quest; Did a child who could not read in June read with greater confidence in October&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We ought to build that kind of a learning ecosystem where everyone in the system reflects on how their knowledge&comma; skills and attitudes can be put to optimum use for advancing the mission&period; Learning does not stick for teachers&comma; for middle managers&comma; for senior leaders because a workshop was conducted&period; It sticks because the environment after the workshop supports the new behaviour&colon; in the classroom&comma; in the school visit&comma; in the cluster meeting&comma; in the district review&comma; in the questions that those at every level of the system choose to ask&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At the heart of this work is a simple belief&colon; every child is capable of learning&comma; and every teacher deserves the conditions that make it possible to act on that belief&period; Training can introduce that belief&comma; but only an enabling system can help teachers practise it every day and make them creative&comma; reflective practitioners&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The training hall may begin the process&period; The work that follows must complete it&period; And that work&comma; purposeful&comma; persistent&comma; aligned across every level of the system&comma; is what separates training that produces reports from training that produces change&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The question we must ask ourselves this year is not whether we trained enough people&period; It is whether&comma; at every level&comma; we designed for the change that was always supposed to follow&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&lpar; I&period;V&period; Subbarao is a retired IAS Officer&comma; Fellow at NITI Aayog&period; Suresh Babu Ghattamaneni is Associate Director at Central Square Foundation&comma; 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