District Institutes of Education and Training - Teacher Education

District Institutes of Education and Training: A Comparative Study in Three Indian States
Lecturers here just read the book. They read that instruction book in the class
and the training is over. Training is just delivering lectures, nothing is done
(MP/IND TT03 25.9.99).
At the end of the Special Orientation for Elementary Teachers training
observation, the researcher noted that while the content of the modules had been
conveyed faithfully:
The training remained a typical DIET training in which neither the teachers nor
the trainers seemed to be interested. As the DIET staff itself was involved in
the training they seemed to be pre-occupied with their own work and came to
the sessions at will. It seems that as in the SOPT training there is provision of
allowance for the trainers, the DIET staff itself wants to give training and
doesn’t involve any external Resource Persons. The time schedule was not taken
care of sincerely; the sessions sometimes went vacant due to non-availability of
trainers. The teachers went away unnoticed and nobody seemed to care.
Trainers stuck to the module and even the teachers prepared their lesson plans
by just copying the SIERT booklets. Overall the training as well as the trainers
seemed thoroughly disappointing to the teachers (RAJ/NN diary 25.7.99).
Shikna Shikana Package In Dhar DIET
In Dhar DIET, the main thrust of training was the Shikna Shikana Package, a
reform that included teaching-learning material, teacher training methodology,
revised student evaluation methods, and a facilitating administrative and
Figure 5.1: The lecturing approach to INSET
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