The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to develop a mobile application for marking the attendance of teachers and staff.
According to the notification the biometric system will now also include non-teaching staff and monitoring will be made more effective through a modern digital system.
The School Education Department has been directed to ensure the inclusion of all teaching and non-teaching staff in the biometric attendance system. A special mobile app will be developed to further improve attendance monitoring.
As per the notification the education department has been assigned the task of preparing the app within 30 days. The new system will enable better monitoring of teachers’ and staff attendance and help ensure discipline in schools across the province.
Govt to train teachers for new E-marking system
In separate development the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwan set to train teachers on e-marking in educational boards.
In this regard, the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Swat will also design training workshops in different educational boards in the province.
This is meant to equip the marking rubrics that will be used to assess examination papers on e-marking system and improve the professional capacity of teachers.
In this regard, nomination of experienced teachers of respective subjects has been sought in each board by way of a formal letter that has been sent to the Chairman of the Peshawar Board.
To ensure that e-marking is implemented effectively in Physics, Chemistry and English subjects it will be done in phases through workshops.
These workshops will involve lecturers, Senior Subject Teachers, Headmasters, and Assistant Professors in various boards such as Swat, Abbottabad, Peshawar, Mardan, Malakand and Bannu among others.
Out of the Swat Board, 15 teachers have been proposed on Physics, Chemistry, and English.
On the same note, 15 teachers have been nominated by Abbottabad Board and 15 teachers have been nominated by Peshawar Board to the three subjects.
Some of the teachers in Mardan and Malakand Boards have also been incorporated in the training process.
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