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The English Partnerships team in West India have much to celebrate. After the successful delivery of the first year of the Maharashtra English Language Initiative for Primary Schools (ELIPS), the English Partnerships team have signed another agreement with the Maharashtra State Government – this time for a four-year English Language Initiative for Secondary Schools (ELISS) project.
Signed by A.D Kale, State Project Director, Maharashtra Prathamik Shikshan Parishad and Sam Harvey, Director West India on 6 July 2013 at the Y. B Chavan Centre in Mumbai, the celebratory ceremony was attended by Rajendra Darda, Hon’ble Minister for School Education, Government of Maharashtra, Fauzia Khan, Minister for State, School Education in Government of Maharashtra, J. S. Saharia, Additional Chief Secretary, School Education Department, Government of Maharashtra and other state officials.
Addressing the gathering, Rajendra Darda reiterated to the audience the importance of English as a globally accepted language and said it was imperative for the students of the state to acquire command over it.
More than 65000 primary school teachers – per phase, received training across the state in the first two phases of the Maharashtra English Language Initiative for Primary Schools (ELIPS) project. Following this model, the RMSA (Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan) approached the British Council to design a similar project working with secondary school teachers from Government and Government-aided schools in the State of Maharashtra.
The ELISS project aims to develop the English language skills as well as basic communicative teaching methodology through face to face training and continuous professional development for secondary schools teachers. 550 master trainers will be trained by the British Council trainers, who will then conduct needs-based training for 20,000 secondary school teachers over a period of four years.
Several corporates and Foundations were part of audience at the signing and were exposed to the breadth of the British Council’s work in English and thus have now been drawn into exploring the potential of working together.
I want to apply for resource person training for Maharashtra’s Secondary Teachers of 9 & 10 the STD . Pl.help me, how to apply? On which website the form will be available? Please reply me on above e mail address.
If you are interested to apply as a Master Trainer for Maharashtra Secondary Schools, please register on – http://tinyurl.com/mp3wg9t
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Hi sir,I have taken the training for 5 days in Buldana District.The training under British Council was very well so I would like to become R.P for the next time.Please,guide me about the training camp.Thanking you
I want to know about more courses for secondary school English teachers run by British Council. Please, help
me.
I want to apply for training. Please give me information about how to register.
Hello! I am Dashrath S Bande. I am working as an English Teacher in Late Adv. V. Banpurkar Vidyalaya,Ghati Ta: Kurkheda Dist: Gadchiroli [M S }. I have 19 years teaching experience in my school. I have attended ELIPS Training as a Master Trainer. I was selected for ELISS Training also. No doubt, already I was engaged in ELIPS. But now I am free to work and eagerly awaiting to join in ELISS. So, please guide me and if it is possible give me a chance to become an ELISS Master Trainer. Thank you
Hi,
Is a copy of the agreement available on your website or anywhere in the public domain?
i want to join eliss as master trainer.
i’m really very happy to join eliss training .my enthusiasm has been raised by my master trainers.so i want the training from those masters who have trained my masters.so plz show me the way how to join for master trainer training.thank you.