SAMARTHYA : Organization of In-service Training of the Teachers of Elementary and Secondary Schools of Odisha - 2016

SAMARTHYA Programme

Teacher is the most crucial input in the process of Education. Trained and Committed teachers in all the schools will make it an attractive place for learning. Teachers working in primary, upper primary and high schools of Odisha have varied background so far as content and pedagogical knowledge, motivational level, qualification and level of learning are concerned. In Odisha a lot of teachers recruited as untrained have not gone pre-service training and hence are under qualified. Even trained teachers also lack some of the pedagogical concept as well as content. Hence there is a need to prepare a comprehensive training design for different categories of teachers working in primary, upper primary and secondary level such as in-service teachers, newly recruited teachers, under qualified teachers, head teachers, teachers working at BRC, CRC and Block level.
Further training to teachers is imparted by various agencies such as SSA, SCERT, ELTI, Board of Secondary Education and others. The Concept and Inputs provided by these institutions varies from programmers to programmers.
In order to tackle all these issues, while organizing training programmes for teachers, guiding principles needs to be followed.
Keeping these in view, a two day workshop was organized at Institution of Engineers, Bhubaneswar on 23-24 December 2010 for elementary level and 27-28 December, 2010 for Secondary level by the Department of School and Mass Education Department. In that meeting it was decided that the following guiding principles needs to be followed while organizing training programme for the teachers both in secondary and elementary level.

Photographs of 

Training of District Resource Group (DRG) 

on Samarthya programme 

for Resource Persons (RP) - CWSN- 2016 

held at Bhubaneswar