Conclave on professional standards for teachers held at NIT-C

The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), successful collaboration with the National Institute of Technology-Calicut (NIT-C), organised National Conclave 2026 for Southern States/Union Territories connected the National Professional Standards for Teachers (NPST) and the National Mission for Mentoring (NMM) astatine NIT-C.

The conclave was inaugurated by Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, who besides launched the authoritative website of the NMM.

Speaking connected the occasion, the Governor emphasised the cardinal relation of teachers successful nation-building and commended the initiatives undertaken by the NCTE to institutionalise nonrecreational standards and mentoring frameworks successful consonance with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. He observed that the implementation of NPST and NMM would substantially fortify teacher quality, nonrecreational accountability, and continuous nonrecreational improvement crossed the acquisition system.

The conclave focussed connected capableness building, orientation, and organization handholding of officials from State Directorates of School Education, State Councils of Educational Research and Training (SCERTs), District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs) of Excellence, and State/UT Nodal Officers. The programme comprised method sessions connected the conceptual model of NPST, implementation strategies, unrecorded portal demonstrations, self-assessment modules, adept presentations, radical deliberations, and structured feedback mechanisms to facilitate effectual implementation astatine the State and Union Territory levels.

Senior officials and cardinal stakeholders from the States and Union Territories participated successful the conclave.

Pankaj Arora, chairperson, NCTE, and Prasad Krishna, Director, NIT-C, spoke.