Capacity Building in Education Sector

1. Capacity Building Capacity Building in Education Sector in Education Sector Capacity –“the ability of people, institutions and societies to perform functions, solve problems, and set and achieve objectives” (UNDP 2002.) Primarily Capacity Building to do with the apportioning resources, within a given institution. It involves physical, intellectual or human resources of an institute and use of them to achieve objectives of institution. In context of education reform, the notion of capacity building turned into a bombination. There is need of precise clarity over the word capacity building in education sector. Capacity building is a composite idea – it involves learning of an individual in terms of skills, persona and knowledge. Successful implementation of capacity building enables institution to lay down objectives, achieve them, enabling reconciling procedures and solve problems. Capacity Building has Having buildings, laboratories, textbooks, test system and examinations are all inevitable and important factors for effective teaching practices. But all this would be of no avail if the teachers we have in classrooms do not know how to use the tools of education. Teachers of a school are, its, most exceptional asset. And they must continue efficient professional development to realize nation’s target of high standards of teaching practices that could provide valuable education for every child. However, focus on capacity building within a given institution or sector in society augurs toward imbalance on factors affecting qualitative performance of the institution though capacity building should, proactively, be intact part of education system to

2. provide conditions for finer performance by individuals. As per the data acquired from MHRD, there are around1.3 million schools across the nation, educating nearby 23 crore students. Despite such number of educational institutes in India, there is serious need of qualitative reforms in education and to benefit students with supreme education. This could be only realize with effective teacher training programs that emphases on Skills Development capacity of teacher is, consequentially, determining evolvement of methodologies, growth and refinement within an education system. Under the teacher training course one more term, Montessori Trai familiar. This training is an intact program prepared by following Montessori’s methods of education entailing mixed age classrooms culture, free and independent movements of students with the premises and learning of concepts from working of materials and models etc. A trained Montessori teacher could, actually, meet the requirements of students by providing conceptual and knowledge based education. Effective capacity building reflects the fulfillment of growth and development needs of the individual together with those of the concerned institutions. McDonnell and Elmore (1991, as cited in Delaney, 2002), proponent of capacity building, in their typology of five policy instrument gave an significant place to capacity building and advocate that the aftermath of it are farsighted. Specific individual and institution may get advances for short term, but ultimate beneficiary is society. The objective of creating mass of competent and trained teachers in every school of the nation highly relies on the capacity building programs under teacher training course. Reference Article: https://goo.gl/i0QQpu Skills Development of teachers. Building Montessori Training ning, is made