IIM Calcutta to train government school heads for new-age teaching

The leadership development programme is scheduled to be organised in small batches in December 2021 and January 2022.

West Bengal government has collaborated with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta to impart leadership training to over 1,300 heads of government and government-aided schools in the state. Training on conflict management, motivation, team management and newer ways of learning in these schools will be given to the headmasters. The vision of this programme is to include more schools under its supervision gradually. Heads will undergo training by the faculty members of IIM-Calcutta.

Talking about IIM Calcutta’s collaboration with the state government, state education minister Bratya Basu said, “We have chosen these 1,300 schools for focussed intervention and we want the heads of these schools to be drivers of growth. The idea is to make learning a pleasant experience for students and introduce newer ways of learning. As this batch completes the programme, we will select more schools for this programme.”

Headmasters will be trained in the classrooms of IIM-Calcutta by the faculty of the business institute. “The headmasters will be trained in various facets of leadership like motivating students and their staff, how to manage conflicts, how to make their staff work as a cohesive team and start thinking out of the box as far as imparting education is concerned,” said a faculty member associated with the projects.

IIM Calcutta Director, Uttam Kumar Sarkar said,“School headmasters educate the students at their impressionable age and higher education institutes like us reap the benefits when they come to study here. It is our privilege to share some knowledge with them because their role in realising the goal of the fundamental ‘Right to Education’ is paramount.”

The leadership development programme is scheduled to be organised in small batches in December 2021 and January 2022. “We had a very enriching session. This leadership development programme will change the way we approach a lot of issues in our professional lives,” said the headmaster of a Kolkata-based school.

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