Physical edu teachers to get online training

Coimbatore: A total of 300 government schoolteachers from the district would be trained in physical literacy, focusing on sports, from August 3 to August 8, through online sessions.
School education department officials say the programme aims to help schoolchildren get access to quality physical education. An official communication from the school education department said the training would be given by the not-for-profit ELMS Sports Foundation.
The orientation programme would ‘enhance theoretical and practical application for physical education teachers and physical directors’, it said. “This programme will be for one-and-half-hours daily,” said S Kannappan, director of school education, in the communication.
He said all chief educational officers should direct headmasters to instruct physical education teachers and physical directors to participate in the online physical literacy programme. The sessions would start with teachers in Coimbatore and Erode from August 3 to August 8. A total of 300 and 216 teachers would participate from these districts respectively.
The sessions would be held for physical education teachers and physical directors from all districts consecutively till October 31. They would be taught key terms of physical education, minor games to engage all children, understanding physical literacy, physical literacy-based curriculum guidelines, human values in physical education and new assessment approaches for physical education.