Transcript DIET: Challenges and Potentials

DIET:
Challenges and Potentials
Lalita Pradeep
NUEPA, New Delhi
14/12/2011
Core function
To provide academic
support
To bring quality in
class-rooms
Trainings
Capacity building
Developing modules, materials
Research , studies , surveys
Experimenting in field practices
Documenting
Linkages
Administrative structure
7 working
units
(no longer
needed)
Principal
/ Vice
Principal
17 teachereducators
6 senior
lecturers
(even they
seem less)
(most
unproductive
set of people)
Office support staff
Ministerial
staff of 14
05
Attendants
(wishlist)
Librarian 1
(thaught of as
individual unit)
Lab asstt
Each faculty is linked with BRC as mentor
Keeps full profiles of the block
Plans and monitors trainings
School visits time to time
Monitoring KGBVs
Organizing and participating in all block level activities
Helps in annual work plan
Challenges: Infrastructure
Training halls
• Structure outdone strategy. Building meant to
cater 50 trainees , when number is gone upto
more than 500-600
• Not well equipped for effective transanction
• No conference hall to organize any program
gracefully
Conference halls
Labs
library or
reading room
• No well equipped lab science/maths / or
language
• No ambience to sit and read / new books (NCF
oriented)/no proper catalogue management
• Needs to be treated as separate unit with few
more hands
Sanitation
facilities
furnitures
• Old-fashioned , not enough to cater present day
requirement in the campus
• Lack of furnitures in class-rooms and in
training halls
Challenges:
vacancy
•50% vacant
•Most
challenging
faculty
Capacity
building
• No provision to upgrade
academic qualifications for
teacher educators
• No Exposures
• No provision for Study leaves
• No extra Grants
• No encouragement for new
works
Challenges: ICT non-enabled
Non-availability of ICT-related facilities,LCD, laptops,audio-video
material, networking
• Proper computer lab and fully automated
office
Training of faculties to use ICT not as multimedia but
as and when needed in classrooms
• Made part of capacity building of teachereducators compulsorily
Actions:
NCTE NORMS
Add-on
maintenance
infrastructure
• New DIETs designed accordingly
• Old one add-on structure
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New training halls
Sanitation facilities
Conference halls
Library and reading room/record room
• hostel
• Main building
• More contingency
Action : Capacity building
Provision for study leave
Short-term courses to fill gap
Exposure visits
Specialized trainings (leadership, reasearch,
writing skills etc)
Empanel universities/IIMs etc to design
new courses
High profile courses , some kind of
selection process or seats reserved
Actions : capacity building
Exposure trips
within states
and outside
annual feature
Projects from
UGC/
Universities/
IIMs or other
reputed
institutes in
individual n
Institutional
capacity
Foreign
scholarship
like gurukul
Chevning,
Fullbright or
other
UNScholarshi
ps tie up for
few seats for
heads of
DIET/CTE/IASE
Action: trainings
Blue-print of annual work plan / no fire-fighting as happens in the end of
Financial year
Computerized data-base of clients i.e. teachers/ master-trainers/resource
persons/ DRGs/ NGOs /
Linkages with IASE/CTE/RMSA and other possible partners
Documentation of good practices by school teachers
Availability of Training-related materials
PST: necessary steps
Some funds for trainees to do field projects/ action
researches
Educational tourism ,tie up with Railway tourism
Exchange program with institute like Digantar etc
Action:
ICT as call of the day
No separate
multimedia
room rqrd
Fully
automated
office
Bio-metric
system for
attendance
All class-rooms
digitally
enabled
Digital English
language lab
Teachertraining
software
Web-site
Computer lab
Digital library
Incentives
No national awards for teacherseducator
Teachers posted in urban areas get CCA and comfortable
geographical location to commute Teachers in remote areas
Some extra renumeration to teachers
outside 40 kms of city’s periphery
Award on good practices at field level
Potentials …………………….
unlimited
unexplored
What we did……………
Training
• Developed teachers training software
• Digital English language lab
Data base
• Data-base of every teachers with expertise
and formal qualifications
• Pool of resource persons
Technology
• Office fully automated
• Class-room equipped
• Biometric and cctv
documentation
• Annual report
• Magazine
• Visual documentation of programs
Linkages
• Child and women welfare/Panchayat
raj/Viklang kalyan /Nehru yuva
kendra/minority deptt/RMSA/
• University of Lucknow
• Regional science centre n district science
club
New projects
• English radio program with Unicef n
CLR,Pune
• Customized training prog for private
schools
• Customized training for Cantt board
New projects…………..
Teacher support
system
Web site
District
knowledge bank
• Call centre based system for academic
queries of teachers in district lucknow
• To be scaled up in all over UP
• To be launched by the end of December
• DIET Group on social site Facebook
• Documenting teachers initiatives
• Resource pool of good teachers in district
Financial help required (infrastructure)…
One time grant
(sustenance basis)
• For infrastructure add-ons/ furnitures /new
structure
• Labs /Library/books /ICT related
equipments
Maintenance
• Hostel/ old main building/
• Computers/ labs
Regular grant
• Hostel upkeep/canteen
• Exposure trips
Financial assistance…….
Research and study
Documentation
mobility
• Regular
• Enough fund flow for capacity
building in this area too
• A good chunk is needed
• Capacity building also
• vehicles
• Official phones
Rebuilding…..in terms of
Hope
Infrastructure
Finances
• DIETs can really deliver*conditions applied)
• They can be revived
• Funds for phase wise approach not one
time
• Subtle thinking about needs prioritising
• They change the world, do miracle…nothing
to say
Thank
you