District Institutes of Education and Training - Teacher Education

District Institutes of Education and Training: A Comparative Study in Three Indian States
3.2.2 Lok Jumbish and the DIETs
In 1995, after Lok Jumbish had covered Ajmer, Bikaner and Dungarpur Districts,
it adopted and reorganised the DIET in those Districts, to make them resource
institutions for its programmes. Detailed recruitment procedures were framed;
buildings were inspected and plans drawn up for repair, additions and alterations;
attempts were also made to create a resource network and provide training for
faculty staff. The three DIETs adopted by Lok Jumbish were also re-organised
from seven into five branches (Table 3.2).
Table 3.2: Organisation of the Lok Jumbish DIETs
1 PSTE Pre-service training
2 Induction
ISTE (ET + WE + IFIC + Communications Officer)
Orientation/ attitudinal/ induction / reorientation programmes for
teachers, HMs and resource persons. When any new cluster was
drawn into LJ, it helped screen and then conducted an orientation
programme for the Resource Persons needed to train teachers. The
emphasis was more on attitudes and mentality of the person; DIET
staff reported that if a person is academically weak, s/he can be helped
to improve but if her/his attitude is negative, whatever the input, this
will affect the quality of work. During the observation period, LJ
issued an order that no new block would be taken up; no further
orientation programmes were conducted.
3 MLL Minimum Levels of Learning
The LJ pattern in schools is based on MLL. This branch takes care of
MLL based training programmes for teachers by preparing Master
Trainers in all subjects taught in schools. Out of 8 blocks, 2 clusters
of 5 blocks had started MLL up to class III; in another block all
clusters had an MLL based curriculum up to class V; in a further
block, all clusters up to class VII were on the MLL. The MLL
department is also supposed to monitor schools and training
programmes of the teachers conducted by the resource persons at
each of the block.
4 Sahaj Shiksha
This branch takes care of the NFE programmes of the district, by
training NFE centre instructors
5 P & M
This department plans DIET programmes, but it was observed that
its key focus was the planning and management of VIII board exams.
The head of P&M was initially introduced as the person who takes
care of the VIII board.
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