Bats for close synergy between the SCERT Divisional Offices, result-oriented trainings
Farooq Shah
SRINAGAR: Director State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), J&K, Prof Veena Pandita on Wednesday stressed the need for better coordination and synergy between the SCERT Divisional Office Jammu & Kashmir in achieving the objectives as laid down in the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
Prof. Pandita
chaired a review meeting, held through virtual mode, with the HODs and Faculty
Members of the different wings/departments of SCERT and sought reports from
them with regard to the programs, workshops and other activities conducted so
far. All the departmental heads from both the divisional Offices attended the
meeting.
“Departments/Wings have been distributed
between the two SCERT Divisional Offices in a manner that they must function in
tandem with each other,” She said. “Some important departments such as
Curriculum Development & Studies, Educational Research, Survey &
Assessment (ERSA), Teacher Education etc have been allotted either at SCERT
Divisional Office Jammu or Kashmir only and all such Departments are mandated
to function at the UT level to cater to the needs of all the 20 Districts and
here is where a strong synergy is required.”
Underlining the
importance of setting objectives and sticking to them, Prof Pandita said that
unless the training imparted to the resource persons (RPs) doesn’t yield the
desired result on the ground, it would be no more than a wasteful activity.
“You’ve to ensure that a training which takes
a lot of resources including funds, reaches its logical conclusion with regard
to its implementation,” Prof. Pandita said. “This would invariably be your
ultimate contribution to Education.”
Prof. Pandita,
while cautioning against khanapurti culture, said the training should not be
conducted for the mere heck of it.
“She stressed upon the HODs/Faculty of SCERT
that Advisor to Hon’ble LG, Chief Secretary, Principal Secretary to Government
School Education Department are very keen and particular about the outcome of
the trainings, workshops and other activities including implementation of
various initiatives of the MoE, Government of India towards qualitative
improvement in the areas of school Education”.
“And therefore, it’s your duty to conduct
surveys to verify as to whether the training imparted at SCERT/DIET Level have
achieved the desired objectives at the grass root level.”
She asked the
departmental heads to prepare various tools such as questionnaires and conduct
field visits for effective implementations of the programs at grass root level.
She directed the stakeholders at SCERT to devise a very strong monitoring
mechanism and ensure accomplishment of the desired outcomes at ground level.
To assess the
teachers’ performance with regard to the NISHTHA online courses, Prof. Pandita
asked the NISHTHA Coordinator to develop specific assessment tools to conduct
an empirical evaluation of the teachers in order to know that they have learnt what they were expected to
learn from these ‘specially designed’
training courses under NISHTHA on DIKSHA portal.
“The teachers, after the completion of all the
NISHTHA courses, are expected to have attained a specific understanding of
things,” she said. “We’ll have their performance evaluated soon.”
Besides, she asked
for a monthly progress report (MPR) from each department at the SCERT.
“All the departments should submit their MPR
by the 3rd of every month punctually,” she said.
Prof Pandita,
directed all the HODs/faculty members to make proper documentation of the
events undertaken by them every month and desired that she will take next
review meeting after 20 days, by that time every department shall put rigorous
efforts and ensure performance of the defined roles and responsibilities in a
very effective and efficient manner.
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