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As per the CBSE notice, under the annual Continuous Professional Development (CPD) mandate, all teachers must complete at least 50 hours of training each year
CBSE has designated STEM Education as the annual training theme for 2025. (Representative image/File)
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) training unit has introduced a mandatory teacher training for school heads and teachers across all CBSE-affiliated schools. This new initiative is in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and aligns with the National Professional Standards For Teachers (NPST) to establish benchmarks of quality and accountability in teacher development.
As per the CBSE notice, under the annual Continuous Professional Development (CPD) mandate, all teachers must complete at least 50 hours of training each year. This includes 25 hours through CBSE or government regional training institutes and remaining 25 hours through in-house or school complex-based training.
The training will focus on the following key standards according to NPST:
Core Values and Ethics – 12 hours
Knowledge and Practice – 24 hours
Professional Growth and Development – 14 hours
In a progressive step to align with India’s expanding knowledge economy, CBSE has designated STEM Education (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) as the annual training theme for 2025.
The aim of the teacher training process is to equip them with strategies to incorporate experiential, inquiry-based, and interdisciplinary methods into classroom teaching, as stated in the official CBSE notice.
The training programme has been designed to support teachers in line with NPST standards to ensure quality teaching and improved student outcomes. “This training structure is designed to support teachers’ alignment with NPST benchmarks, ensuring quality teaching and improved student outcomes. This framework also takes into consideration the broad CPD guidelines suggested by the NCERT,” reads the official notice.
“The CPD Guidelines issued by the Board also acknowledges the activities that are academically inclined and are contributory to the teaching-learning processes. Evaluation duties performed by the teachers for Class X and XII Board Examinations, practical examiner’s duty, other developmental tasks such as research projects, presentations, participation in CBSE Conferences, item development, e-content creation, CBP development, curriculum review, viewing DD PM e-Vidya Channel CBSE 15, etc. have been acknowledged as CPD hours as per the quantum notified in the said CPD Notification,” the notice added.
“Schools and teachers are strongly encouraged to participate actively in these deliberations to contextualise national goals within local realities,” CBSE said.
