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Bhubaneswar, Feb 5: The state government is to monitor the performance of the teachers of various government schools to improve elementary education.
“A strong and effective monitoring mechanism shall be put in place to regularly monitor functioning of schools and performance of school teachers. Standards of performance of teachers and teacher educators would be developed with the corresponding parameters for assessment,” according to an official communique sent by the additional secretary to the government to the principal secretary, higher education department, and the director teacher education and State Council of Educational Research and Training, Orissa.
The communiqué said that steps should be taken according to JVC recommendations. A meeting was held December 2014 under the chairmanship of development commissioner and additional chief secretary of Orissa, UN Behra, to discuss the recommendations of the JVC. The meeting was attended by school and mass education (S&ME) department commissioner-cum-secretary Usha Padhee, S&ME department additional secretary Dasharathi Satapathy, TE and SCERT director Debraja Senapati and former director of TE and SCERT SL Jena.
A data-based estimate is required of the exact number of sanctioned posts of trained teachers, trained teachers in position, trained teachers required in position, trained teachers produced by teachers education institutes (TEIs), demand-supply mismatch and number of trained teachers available for recruitment to ensure quality recruitment in schools, according to the JVC recommendations.