Bhubaneswar: The Directorate of Teacher Education and SCERT in collaboration with UNICEF Odisha and with technical support from SDRC, has launched the Teacher Education Dashboard for Teacher Education Institutes (TEIs) to monitor the progress against the annual academic calendar and improve the quality of teacher training.
It is a unique platform that aggregates information on HR, infrastructure and academic indicators across TEIs. The dashboard is developed as a one stop monitoring solution for all TEIs and follows uniformity in implementing the unified academic calendar.
The dashboard enables to publish the unified training and academic calendar for all the TEIs. Apart from the above purpose, the dashboard has the common repository that allows the TEIs equipped with network to share own knowledge products with peer TEIs.
The content management system captures success stories, guidelines and relevant knowledge products on TEIs. The state and district level factsheet/dashboard generated on key performance indicators like laboratories and other resources, access to toilets and drinking water, enrolment disaggregated through intake capacity, gender, social category etc.
There are possible options to tie to other chart type, download the chart as image file for further use as well as tracking the attendance of teachers and staff by each institute, aggregated daily and monthly.
Faculties would be able to login to the dashboard through a given user ID and password to access information, post queries and upload institution wise academic and HR information. Similarly, faculties from the directorate can login to access information, provide guidance and address the queries of faculties and student teachers. In this manner, faculties can interact with the directorate and seek their guidance on the best academic performance.
Gangadhar Sahoo, Director, TE and SCERT said, the dashboard creates a common repository that provide decision makers with qualitative and reliable data for effective decision making and planning, rolling out training programs as well as linking the training inputs to performance-based incentives. Training of faculties is planned as the next step, so that they are able to fully navigate and use the dashboard.
Minister of School and Mass Education Samir Ranjan Dash said, “The most impressive aspect about this dashboard is that it is a GIS based interactive dashboard with alert and notification system to enable real time tracking of the institutions and aggregated data disseminated through tabular form, Bar, Pie, cards to represent trends.”
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