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Training of KRPs of North-Eastern States in Examination Reforms with
Reference to Evaluation Techniques and Question Paper Setting for
Social Sciences at the Secondary Level
The training programme was held at NERIE, Shillong from 18 to 22 October
2010. KRPs from Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Sikkim
participated in the programme. The objectives of the training programme were:
to sensitise the DIET faculty and secondary teachers of North-East States on the
importance of making examination more flexible and integrated into classroom
life as emphasised in NCF-2005, and to train the KRPs on the new methods of
evaluation pattern and question paper setting with reference to the social science
textbooks of secondary level developed by NCERT based on NCF-2005. The topics
deliberated in the training programmes were: Tools and Techniques of Evaluation,
Achievement Test, Evaluation in Social Study Teaching, Continuous and
Comprehensive Evaluation, Model Question in Geography/ Economics/History,
Diagnostic Tests: Purpose and Use, Testing Critical Thinking Skills, Continuous
and Comprehensive Evaluation, Grading, etc.
Training of Key Resource Persons of North-Eastern States on Child
Rights and Child Protection
The training programme was organised at NERIE, Shillong from the 13 to
17 September 2010. KRPs from the states of Meghalaya, Mizoram, Assam and
Sikkim participated in the programme. The main objectives of the programme
were to raise awareness and sensitise teachers and teacher educators on protecting
children from abuses, injustices, deprivation, etc. which is a severe violation of
human rights. The training programme focused on the NCF-2005, Child Rights
and Child Protection, The Right to Development-Education and health, Child
Trafficking, Child Labour, Child Abuses, Role of the Teacher, Value Education,
Psychological Effects in Children Arising from Abuses, The Differentlyabled Child,
Socialisation and Gender Issues, and Protecting Children Environment.
Participants realised the importance of setting up a child protection cell in their
SCERTs and DIETs.
Orientation of Secondary Teachers of Arunachal Pradesh on the Use of
New Social Science Textbooks for Class X Developed by NCERT
The orientation programme was organised at NERIE, Shillong from 2 to 6 August
2010. This programme was conducted with the overall objective of helping the
teachers to understand the philosophy and spirit of NCF-2005 so as to enable
them to transact the social science textbooks in actual classroom situation based
on the new approaches and strategies advocated by NCF-2005 curricular issues
and pedagogic concerns. The topics included in the orientation programme,
National Focus Group Position Paper on teaching of social sciences, critical
pedagogy, the constructivist approaches to teaching and learning followed by
demonstration classess by the resource persons for transacting the new Social
Science textbooks for Class X in the light of NCF-2005
Training Programme on Diagnostic Testing and Remedial Teaching for
DIET Faculty, Coordinators and Key Functionaries for Nagaland and
Meghalaya
A five-day programme was organised at NERIE, Shillong from 8 to 12 November
2010. Thirty three participants from the states of Nagaland and Meghalaya
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