Lok Sabha Question No. 5955 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-04-10
Subject: Teacher Training Institutes
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: RATTAN LAL KATARIA, SUPRIYA SADANAND SULE, JAYAKUMAR JAYAVARDHAN, RAJEEV SHANKARRAO SATAV, DHANANJAY BHIMRAO MAHADIK, VIJAYSINH MOHITE PATIL, HEENA VIJAYKUMAR GAVIT

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION AND LITERACY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5955 TO BE ANSWERED ON 10 th  APRIL, 2017

## Teacher Training Institutes

5955.

SHRI RATTAN LAL KATARIA:

SHRIMATI SUPRIYA SULE:

DR. J. JAYAVARDHAN:

SHRI SATAV RAJEEV:

SHRI DHANANJAY MAHADIK:

SHRI MOHITE PATIL VIJAYSINH SHANKARRAO:

DR. HEENA VIJAYKUMAR GAVIT:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state :

- (a) whether the Government is planning for mandatory and uniform annual teacher training;
- (b)   if so, the details thereof and the objective behind the move;
- (c) whether teacher's qualification and training will also be linked to accreditation of the schools and if so, the details thereof;
- (d) whether the Government is working on reforms in the form of standardisation of education at school level;
- (e)    if so, the details thereof and the objective behind the move; and
- (f)    whether the Government has developed a detailed blueprint on improving of teachers' training and if so, the details thereof and the time by which these reforms will be rolled out?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI UPENDRA KUSHWAHA)

- (a) &(b): The  Central  Government,  under  the  flagship  programmes  of Sarva  Shiksha  Abhiyan  (SSA)  and  Rashtriya  Madhyamik  Shiksha  Abhiyan

(RMSA) provides funding to State and UT Governments to improve Elementary  and  Secondary  education  respectively.  Provision  for  in-service teacher  training  is  an  integral  component  of  both  the  SSA  and  RMSA programmes. Under SSA, there is a provision of refresher residential or nonresidential in-service training of 10 days for all teachers each year at the Block Resource  Centre  (BRC)  level,  and  upto  10  days  at  the  Cluster  Resource Centre ( CRC) level. Residential Induction training for newly recruited teachers for  30  days  and  training  of  untrained  teachers  to  enable  them  to  acquire professional  qualifications  is  also  provided  in  the  scheme.  The  training provided to teachers is subject specific and need based. The training modules are  developed  by  the  State  Council  of  Educational  Research  and  Training (SCERT) in the State and the training is imparted through a cascade model of the  State  level  with  Key  Resource  Persons  training  master  trainers  at  the district  level  who  then  train  teachers  at  Block  and  Cluster  level. The  training content  for  Block  level  training  is  focused  on  concepts  and  methodology related  to  the  programmes  focused  on  improving  learning  outcomes.  The Cluster level is a follow-up of the Block level training to help address issues that the teachers may be facing in their classroom practice.

Under  RMSA,  there  is  a  provision  of  10  days  of  in  service  teacher training, including 05 days of subject specific training and for the remaining 05 days  training  on  ICT  Component,  Inclusive  Education,  Gender  Sensitization and Adolescent Education is provided. Under both SSA and RMSA, the focus is to give subject specific, need based and relevant in service teacher training to both elementary and secondary teachers for their professional development.

(c) to (e): Accreditation of schools comes under the domain various State and UT Boards of School Education.

In order to improve  the  quality  of  school  education,  the  School Standards  &  Evaluation  framework,  known  as  'Shaala  Siddhi'  has  been launched  by  NUEPA,  to  enable  schools  to  evaluate  their  performance  in  a more focused and strategic manner and to facilitate them to  make professional judgments for improvement.

The Learning Outcomes for each class I to VIII have been finalized and shared with all States and UTs.  These have also been included in the Central Rules to the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 through an amendment on 20 th February, 2017. These would serve as a guideline  to  ensure  that  all  children  acquire  appropriate  learning  level.  From current  year  onwards,  Government  has  decided  to  conduct  annual  National Achievement Surveys covering all students from grade I-VIII in all government and  government  aided  schools.  The  students  learning  assessment  will  be according  to  the  Learning  Outcomes  developed  by  NCERT  for  all  subjects covering all classes in the elementary cycle.

The  Central  Government  has  launched  the  'Pandit  Madan  Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching' in December, 2014 with a vision to comprehensively address all issues related to teachers, teaching, teacher preparation, professional development, curriculum design, research in pedagogy and developing effective pedagogy. The Central Board of Secondary Education has decided to make Xth Board Examination compulsory from the academic year 2017-18. It has also introduced a uniform system of Assessment, Examination and Report Card for classes VI-IX that would prepare the students to face the challenge of Class X examination. The National Council of Educational Research & Training (NCERT) has developed  a  framework  for Performance  Indicators  for  Elementary  School Teachers  (PINDICS) and  shared  with  the  states.  PINDICS  will  eventually evolve  as  the  framework  for  effective  teacher  performance  for  effective monitoring and benchmarking across the country. The  NCERT  has  developed  and  published  an  exemplar  package  on Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) for the elementary stage in all  curricular  areas.  Further,  with  a  view  to  establish  a  system  of  periodic monitoring and regular feedback on quality related parameters and classroom processes in elementary schools throughout the nation, NCERT developed a set of Quality  Monitoring Tools (QMT) which have been modified in the light of the RTE Act, 2009 and the revised SSA framework . The monitoring process involves  assessing  of  progress,  diagnosing  strengths  and  weakness  and taking  remedial  measures  according  to  the  needs  of  children,  teachers  and schools.

(f): To  ensure  recruitment  of  quality  teachers,  the  National  Council  for Teacher Education (NCTE), which is mandated for providing quality teacher education  to  the  prospective  teachers,  has  set  norms  and  standards  for infrastructure, instructional facilities and qualification and experience of faculty for the teacher education institutions in which teachers are educated.  For this purpose, NCTE has revised its Recognition, Norms and Procedure, Regulations  2014.  The  Regulations  2014,  have  enhanced  the  duration  of teacher training programmes like B.Ed and M.Ed to two years and increased the  period  of  Internship  to  make  these  programmes  more  rigorous  and professionalized. Modules on gender, equity, ICT, yoga and inclusive education have also been added in the teacher education programmes.

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