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Bhubaneswar, June 20: In a move to make a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the teacher education system, the state government has formed a 22-member think-tank committee with 13 members for national- and 10 members for state-level representation.
One of the members of the think-tank will be designated as lead coordinator to lead the think-tank at the state-level. The members have been drawn from national-level institutions and recognised academicians from the state.
They are mostly from the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), Teacher Education and State Council of Education Research and Training (TE&SCERT), Regional Institute of Education (RIE), various principals and former professors of different institutions across the state.
The think-tank members will extensively intervene in the matters relating to institution strengthening, curriculum renewal and strengthen planning, management and linkages.
The members are expected to deliver quarterly plans or progress reports, perspective plan for teacher education, policy briefs, situation analysis and capacity building plans, improve institutional linkages between state, district and sub-district level. They will also create a data base of teacher education, documentation of best practices and framing curriculum for school education as well as for teacher education.
The responsibility of the members would be to direct, guide and review the progress or loopholes of teacher education system with the principal secretary of school and mass education department. The office of the think-tank member will be in the premises of SCERT building in the city.
The think-tank meetings shall be held once every two months to discuss on various matters to review progress, suggest ideas for implementation and visit different teacher education institutions on regular intervals.
