with the Distance Education Programme - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
(DEP-SSA) organized a three-day national seminar on 'Teacher education
through Open and Distance Learning in the context of Right to
Education' at the Convention Centre of the University in the capital
from March 22-24, 2011.
The main objectives of the seminar were to develop strategic plan of
action for improving quality of education through Open and Distance
Learning (ODL) mode.
It identified appropriate skills and competencies required for
empowering teachers and other SSA functionaries in providing
meaningful education to children at the elementary level.
As a part of capacity building activities under SSA, the seminar
documented and shared innovative practices in Teacher Education
Programmes for in-service teachers.
"Teacher education system is a power plant and if it works efficiently
and proactively, the health of the system will be in accordance to
what the society demands. The teachers and educators themselves have
to ask if he or she is a professional in real sense of the term. Is
the education set-up turning out the right professionals into the
system? Do the qualifications insisted by the NCTE bring about a
change? If yes, then do we have a system to give the entire
professionals a chance to enhance their personality?" said Prof. Suman
Karandikar, Director, Centre for Educational Studies (CES), Indian
Institute of Education (IIE), Pune
She was addressing the challenges of teacher education in the context
of the RTE during the seminar.
The seminar included plenary sessions with paper presentations in
parallel sessions. Teachers, teacher educators, officials of state SSA
units, researchers and academicians attended the seminar which also
talked about promoting technology enhanced collaborations for
developing social networking among them at national, state, district
and block levels for strengthening capacity building activities
through ODL mode under SSA and RTE.
Pro-VC Latha Pillai, IGNOU along with Dr. Anita Priyadarshini, Project
Director, DEP-SSA were also present among others.
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