Teacher plays a pivotal role in the education system. Providing quality pre-service and in-service teacher education is essential to create a holistic future generation. The Department of Pre-Service Teacher Education caters the prerequisite programmes for ensuring quality education in the district. This department would render the following services or activities:

• Conduct pre-service teacher education course in the district.
• Execute admission process and approval of students in stipulated time every academic year.
• Prepare calendar of activities and orient the trainees on learner-centred pedagogical processes, multigrade teaching, self-learning methods, activity-based learning and class-wise learning outcomes, joyful learning and similar new strategies introduced by the government from time to time.
• Provide training in educational psychology, educational management and classroom procedures to pre-service trainees.
• Train the prospective teachers in the approaches to address the needs of gifted children, late bloomers and children with special needs (CWSN).
• Render opportunities to the trainees to develop all-round personality through various co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.
• Educate the trainees to prepare relevant lesson plans, notes of lesson, suitable teaching-learning materials and assessment strategies including continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE).
• Give hands-on training on lab-equipment in science lab, psychology lab, ICT labs and language labs.
• Publish student monthly magazines and annual reports pertaining to pre-service students.
• Provide academic support to the other TTIs running in the district such as GTTIs, BITEs, government-aided TTIs and self-financed TTIs.
• Sensitize the trainees in scientific and child-centric approaches.
• Conduct internal assessments to pre-service in DIETs as well as in other TTIs in the districts.
• Provide feedback and suggestions for restructuring the curriculum and syllabus of pre-service course as and when required.
• Extend faculty support to teacher development programmes.
• Monitor the internship of pre-service trainees of all kinds of TTIs in district.

Implementation of In-Service Teacher Education

• This department will assist educational authorities in planning and coordination of in-service education programmes at all levels in the district.
• It will draft annual training calendars and schedules for their respective institutes during April, aligning them with the SCERT’s annual calendar. These schedules will be published on the institute’s website and communicated to all teachers across all levels. Adherence to the training calendar is mandatory and will be strictly enforced.
• It will be involved in registration work (which can be online), organizing logistics and resources, preparation of training design, and an active role in the development of training material viz., modules, handouts, training packages, kit manuals, and resource materials among the trainees for better understanding of the content of the programmes and involvement of experts.
• Monitor and guide BRCs and CRCs to execute in-service training. Interdepartmental and inter-institutional planning for the training programmes will be done.
• Appropriate Resource Persons for training programmes will be selected based on their expertise in the specific area and contemporary training methodologies with a participatory, interactive, and responsive approach, aimed at stimulating critical thinking by posing questions rather than simply offering pre-packaged solutions.
• Programs will prioritize providing hands-on experiences to participants, ensuring ample opportunities for active engagement. Key capacities such as activity-based teaching, managing large classes, multi-grade teaching, team teaching, and fostering cooperative and collaborative learning will be emphasized.
• Modalities such as participatory lectures, projects, group work, among others, will be employed as transactional methods to effectively achieve program objectives.
• Organize induction programmes for newly appointed teachers and HMs, as well as education functionaries at the block and cluster levels. Besides inducting them into service rules and regulations, these induction programmes will prepare them for their academic role. It will be organized for newly recruited faculty of teacher education institutes also.