The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) along 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.
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.
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