STRATEGIES AND INTERVENTIONS

State Component Plan on Pedagogy :

A clear vision and understanding of the quality of elementary education at State, District, Block and School levels are the pre-requisite for planning of quality improvement interventions. This can be done if a core group of educational visionaries and workers in the state get together on a regular basis, identify the emerging crucial pedagogical issues on elementary education, debate from different angles and suggest interventions and strategies to address the issues. Similarly, at the district and block levels there must be core groups to suggest and take up strategies and interventions in the same line as in the State Core Group does. These Resource Groups would oversee the policy, planning, implementation and monitoring of all quality related interventions. Capacity building programmes may be taken up in cascade model to develop the quality of elementary education. So the following strategies/activities may be taken up in the year, 2006-2007.

 Teacher Recruitment :

        There is total ban on appointment of regular teachers by State Government. Meanwhile 420 regular and experienced teachers have been engaged as Block Resource Persons (BRPs) and Cluster Resource Persons (CRPs). They have been posted at the 34 Block Resource Centres (BRCs) and 205 Cluster Resource Centres (CRCs). The detail is given at Table No.1 All BRCs and CRCs are now functional. Rationalization of working teachers, appointment of para-teachers ( in place of BRPs and CRPs are under process).

          In 2005-06, PAB approved a sum of Rs. 10.77 lakh for induction training of newly recruited teachers. As there is ban on appointment of new teachers the programme is not taken up. In the year 2006-07 also the programme may not be taken up.

Preparation of Teacher Training Modules :     

          SSA State Mission Authority, Manipur had released a sum of Rs. 1,68,580/- only to SCERT to organize a  workshop for development of 20-day In-Service teacher Training Modules. The SCERT in collaboration with DIETs and local experts developed and produced 38 modules for teacher training. The modules were  produced in book form. It contains general areas(topics), mathematics, EVS I & II, Science, Language(Regional language, Hindi  and English), AHPL (Art of Healthy and productive Living). A copy of each of  the modules  has been submitted to the TSG. Ed.CIL, MHRD. 1(one) copy of the same has also been distributed to each District Project Office/SSA.

In-Service Teacher Training Programme :

          In 2004-05 SSA State Mission Authority Manipur had released a sum of Rs. 46.10 lakh to 9 district for imparting 20-day in-service teacher training. The Physical target was 3293 elementary teachers. The State and District functionaries, in collaboration with SCERT and DIETs,  organized and conducted  the teacher training programmes with the modules as mentioned above.

Distance Education Programme :

        In the last PAB Meeting a sum of Rs. 53.76 lakh was approved for imparting 60-day refreshers course to 1280 untrained teachers. In view of the backlog of untrained teachers in the State  it was decided in the meeting to utilise the fund in imparting 6-Month Innovative Teacher Education (Certificate in Primary Education-CPE) in collaboration with IGNOU, New Delhi. The State Project Office has tied up with IGNOU Regional Centre and DIETs to expedite the programme. A sum of Rs. 6,06,000/-(Rupees six lakhs and six thousand) only has been deposited to IGNOU through IGNOU Regional Centre, Imphal. 6-month teacher education programme for 200 untrained regular teachers will start from the session of July, 2006 at 4(four) Study Centres viz., D.M. College of Teacher Education, Imphal District; Moirang DIET, Bishnupur District; Churachandpur DIET, Churachandpur District and Tamenglong Higher Secondary School, Tamenglong District. In the January session, 2007, 450 untrained elementary teachers will be imparted 6-Month Teacher Education (CPE)  at 8(eight) study centres of 9(nine) districts. Necessary action is being taken up.

Distance Education Activity :

         A 3-day Workshop  on Development of Self Learning Materials (SLMs) for Distance education Programme and another 3-day Workshop on Finalization of the SLMs were organised on 16-18 June and on 8-10 September, 2005.  12 (twelve) SLMs were developed, reviewed  and  finalised during the workshops.  33 participants and 10 participants were participating in the two workshops. A sum of Rs. 41,275/-  was spent in the two programmes. 12 SLMs were submitted to the IGNOU, New Delhi for printing 13,841 copies for distribution to 13,841 elementary teachers of the State. IGNOU, New Delhi has re-imburshed the expenditure of the two workshops.