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professional responsibilities of teachers, and teacher educators of North-Eastern
States; develop understanding on new curriculum guidelines; impart knowledge
about learners and their learning patterns; inform recent curriculum transaction
skills; and discuss the curriculum changes in teacher education. The programme
was intended to build the professional competence of teacher educators at SCERT,
DIET, BTC, and other colleges of education. It was also designed to provide them
an opportunity to discuss and understand the role alterations as well as equip
them to deal with recent changes. Topics covered in the programme includes:
Teaching as a Profession, Aims of Education, Recent Approaches for Teaching
and Learning, Curriculum Changes in Teacher Education, Communication Skills
for Teacher, Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation, Teaching of Social
Sciences, Inclusive Education, Social Responsibilities of Teacher, Integration of
ICT in Teaching, and Ethics of Teaching Profession, etc.
Training of KRPs on Sign Language in Promoting Inclusive Education
An instructional material on Sign Language for Deaf Education with reference to
Indian sign language at the primary level was developed in 2009. A training
programme for teacher educators from SCERTs, DIETs and SIEs was conducted
with the help of this material at NERIE, Shillong from 2 to 6 August 2010.
Training of Teachers on Teaching Minority Languages of Nagaland
and Tripura
The training programme was conducted at NERIE, Shillong from 20 to 24
September. The programme was organised with the objectives of orienting teachers
with regard to minority languages and to train the teachers on new methods and
techniques of teaching mother tongue. The training programme was attended
by language officers and language teachers from the state of Nagaland. The
programme focused on the issues of education in mother tongue, conditions of
minority language teaching in the state, position paper on teaching of Indian
languages, The concept of mother tongue, constitutional provisions and mother
tongue education, multilingual education, different writing systems, the question
of script, development of teaching learning material, community involvement and
the use of multimedia in teaching of mother tongues, sign language as a minority
language and the assessment and evaluation in languages.
Gender Issues in Education for Teachers and Teacher Educators of
North-Eastern States
The programme was organised with the objectives to sensitise the teachers and
teacher educators on gender issues in education, to train them to transact the
textbooks in a gender neutral way in the classroom, and to discuss the different
approaches of handling existing notions and stereotypes of gender discrimination
in the schools at NERIE, Shillong from 9 to 13 August 2010. The programme
was attended by 21 teachers and teacher educators from all the states of
North-East India. The topics discussed in the programme were Introduction to
Gender, Gender Identities and Socialisation, Mass Media and Its Implication,
Politics and Reservation, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Gender and Education in
North-East India, Achieving Equity Disability and Gender, Gender and Language,
Gender and Environment, Gender Issues and School Textbooks, Women
Education and Legal Issues, Gender and Science, etc.
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