SLIIT’s Guru Viru Commits to Provide National Service to the Teaching Profession

SLIIT’s Faculty of Humanities and Sciences launched an insightful CSR project titled ‘Guru Viru’ recently as a teachers training programme with the aim of empowering and developing educators with vital skills and attitudes necessary to strengthen the field of education.

The programme caters to professionals in the education sector including lecturers, principals, teachers in schools and teachers working in the pastoral system etc.

The main objectives of the programme are the exchange of knowledge and experience by subject matter experts, and the education and the development of the teachers by enhancing their skills. SLIIT is firmly committed in empowering educators and providing this as a national service through free of charge sessions enabling all teachers across the country to benefit.

The inaugural ‘Guru Viru’ programme was successfully concluded on 23rd June 2021 in collaboration with the Mahaweli National College of Education, Polgolla. A session on ‘Action Research’ for trainees of the College was conducted. Over 400 interns and lecturers attended the event. The session was led by Dr. Virajith Gamage, Senior Lecturer, School of Education of the SLIIT Faculty of Humanities and Sciences.

Kanthi Liyanage, President of Mahaveli National College of Education was instrumental in supporting the event and coordinating with the National Colleges of Education to conduct the sessions.

Following the success of this session, several other workshops have been conducted to-date. These include one on the use of SPSS software vital for statistical analysis, which was recently held for lecturers of the Mahaweli, Peradeniya and Siyane National Colleges of Education. Over 100 participants attended the thought-provoking session seminar conducted by Senior Professor T.S.G Peiris, Head of the Department of Mathematics, SLIIT Faculty of Humanities and Sciences.

According to Dr. Malitha Wijesundara, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Science, as there is significant demand for programmes of this nature from the National Colleges of Education, SLIIT aims to continue to implement several workshops in the future.