Ongoing Projects/Activities

SCERT(WB) has taken initiative Translation of D.EL.Ed Text Books developed by SCER(WB) in English & Urdu for students of DIETs and PTTIs(Govt./Govt. Sponsored/Govt. Aided PTTI) in West Bengal. A series of consultations with Resources Persons who are from DIETs and Schools and Colleges has been completed. The Translated books will be published very soon.

All may be aware that SCERT (WB) has been taken initiative for development of State Curriculum Frame Work as per the guideline NCERT and approval of the Honourable MIC for School Education of West Bengal. For this SCERT (WB) has been formed 25 Focus Group in the State on Different Areas suggested by NCERT. To prepare position paper, SCERT (WB) has conducted Face to Face consultative meeting with all Focus Group Members in different dates. The 150 members of various organisations are attended in the meeting and prepared draft position papers on different areas under guidance of all Research Fellows of SCERT act as Member Secretary of each group and Supervision of the Director ,SCERT and Chairman of the Focus Group .

SCERT (WB) has taken initiative to develop infrastructure of SCERT (WB) , DIETs and PTTIs through PWD (Civil and Electrical). In the last three financial years 2019-20, 2020-2021 and 2021-22 SCERT has received an sufficient amount for various repairing works, AMC of electrical maintenance, Biometric attendance system and various research works of SCERT.

In West Bengal, after the implementation of the D.El.Ed course the DIETS have been effectively functional in their PSTE branches since 2014 after the implementation of the two years’ D.El.Ed. course revised as per recommendation of the NCTE. Meanwhile duly qualified faculty members  have been appointed in all the DIETS which are also well furnished with all infrastructural facilities including ICT labs enabled with Wi-Fi.

Though different training programmes have been organized for improvement of the  quality of the academic activities of the DIET, yet no remarkable improvement have been perceived in this regard and the academic functioning have been taken place in the DIETs in the tune of the conventional manner and not as per recommendation of the NCFTE-09 and of NCTE. Needless to mention that there is no basic difference with the DIETs with other TTIs as per the academic discourse is concerned especially in the field of the School Internship programmes.

The project EBP (Encouraging Best Practice) has been initiated by the SCERT (WB) with an aim  to quality improvement of DIETs strictly as per framework & spirit of the NCFTE & review of  the JRM of Teacher Education with the following objectives :

• To sensitize the staff members about the spirit of the reformation of teacher education programme as per recommendation of the NCFTE – 2009.
• Capacity development of academic faculty members:-

1. For practicing ‘School Internship Programmes’ for both the 1^st& 2^nd year students in the light of reformation by providing space of innovation & creativity.
2. To build up an institution basis ‘Assessment Framework’ for awarding internal marks of theory papers & internship activities in an unbiased way.

• For documentation of all activity for creating a repository of the institute.

1. Submission of the tasks, with feedback about all stages i.e. plan – challenges faced – strategies taken -achievement – failure.
2. For empowering & encouraging them to participate in the national seminars by publishing their work.

SCERT has organized a pilot study in DIET, Burdwan on September, 2021 and conducted three   day sensitizing workshop in DIET, Birbhum for South Bengal DIETs with all faculty members   including the technicians for the period from 12^th Sept. 2021 to 14^th Sept. 2021. Also SCERT has  planned to organise three day sensitizing workshop in DIET, Jalpaiguri for North Bengal DIETs  with all faculty members including the technicians in the month of Dec’2021.

As a measure to contain the spread of the novel corona virus, educational institution has been shut            down temporarily. There is no certainty when they will reopen. As the day pass by with no       immediate solution to stop the outbreak of COVID-19, the continuity of learning is endangered. It         also has a far reaching economic and societal consequence. The structure of learning including            teaching and assessment methodologies was the first to be affected by these closures. Needless to   say, the pandemic has transformed the centuries-old, chalk-talk teaching model to one driven by            technology. This disruption in the delivery of education is pushing the institutional authorities to             figure out how to ensure e-learning solutions and how to tackle the digital divide.

The students enrolled in the professional course like D. El. Ed are at a fix. These students are the future teachers with a great mission of building nation. Apart from class lectures and theories,    they do need hand-holding support and they do learn to put the acquired knowledge into practice      under the supervision of the faculty members of the DIETs.

For them immediate measures are essential to ensure continuity of learning and completion of the             curriculum. To ensure accessibility of learning to the students open source digital learning           solutions can be adopted. It is important to reconsider the current delivery and pedagogical       methods in professional education by integrating classroom learning with e-learning modes. For          this, if is also important to ensure quality benchmark for online learning.

In this time of crisis, a well-rounded and effective educational practice is what is needed for the   capacity-building of young minds. It will develop skills that will drive their employability.

In this regard, SCERT(WB) has taken initiative to start classes for D. El, Ed. Students through     online platform and accordingly has decided for planning and execution of a project entitled as   “Professional Development of the DIET Faculties together with online Classes for Regular          D. El. Ed. Students” with the following objectives :

1. Professional Development of DIET, Faculties and

2. To reach out the learners.

There are nine theory papers in D. El. Ed curriculum and each paper has 10 units. Our target was to make video classes covering all the units. Already SCERT(WB) has developed 70 video

classes. The classes will be available in our web portal very soon for Teacher Educators, Trainees

of DIETs and other TEIs .

The School Education Department GoWB, had assigned eight Research Studies to SCERT (WB) to be conducted in eleven sampled districts of West Bengal .

The titles of the study are given below:

1. A study on effect of PTR on Academic Achievement of students of in Primary, Elementary,  Secondary and Higher Secondary School in West Bengal (Sampled Districts are Jhargram, South 24 Parganas, Malda and Jalpaiguri )
2. Find out the reasons for Gender Disparity (sampled District are Murshidabad & Uttar Dinajpur)
3. Zero Enrolment schools of South 24Parganas -A tracer Study (Sampled Districts is South 24 Parganas )
4. Out of School Children including CWSN in the district of Bankura (Sampled Districts is Bankura )

5. Study on Drop-out Rates at Primary, Upper Primary, High Secondary and Higher Secondary (demography and social category wise) and finding out the causes of drop-out in West Bengal.( Sampled Districts are – Murshidabad & Dakshin Dinaipur)
6. How to make teaching learning more attractive and enjoyable in Primary, Elementary,  Secondary and Higher Secondary Level (Sampled Districts is Alipurduar )
7. A study on Curriculum revision and introduction of new subjects at Higher Secondary level. Necessity of introduction of skill based subjects in our regular curriculum.

( Sampled Districts are North 24 Parganas & Howrah )

8. How to make Mid-Day Meal more effective in terms of quality, quantity, regularity & dignity.( Sampled Districts is Hooghly )

A team of researchers from SCERT (WB) faculty members have been completed the work           within stipulated time. The reports of Eight research studies have been submitted to the Principal

Secretary of School Education Deptt, GoWB and SPD,PBSSA.

SCERT (WB) has prepared an activity based manual on Social Science for the learners of classes 6 to 10. The manual would help the students to learn the subject in a more attractive manner. This       would also help the future teachers who are studying D.El.Ed to impart the lessons in social science in more effective manner. Two separate activity manuals were conceived, one for History           and the other for Geography. The subject teachers designed activities for the two manuals. 24      activities were designed for the History manual and 50 for the Geography one. Necessary             diagrams, maps were also provided in the manuals.

SCERT (WB) collaborated with the CPTSE, NSATI (WB) in conducting Administrative Training            of Heads of Institution (HoI) from Secondary and HS schools in batches, as nominated by the DIs      from the respective districts. During this period of COVlD-19 induced restrictions, the entire five

day training for each batch used to be delivered through online mode over WEBEX platform. The             participating HoIs were assessed at the end of course through online assessment tools.

Santhali medium books have been developed for the students of D.El.Ed course of Santhali          medium which is currently established and running at the Second campus of DIET Jhargram          situated at Ramgarh. This is a great achievement for SCERT (WB) since SCERT(WB) is able to       run one unit of D.El.Ed course in Santhali medium for the first time in West Bengal. This will help all the students, teachers and community of Santhali medium to continue their teaching-  reaming in their mother tongue in a very effective way.

Santhali medium books have been developed for the students of D.El.Ed course of Santhali          medium which is currently established and running at the Second campus of DIET Jhargram          situated at Ramgarh. This is a great achievement for SCERT (WB) since SCERT(WB) is able to       run one unit of D.El.Ed course in Santhali medium for the first time in West Bengal. This will help all the students, teachers and community of Santhali medium to continue their teaching-  reaming in their mother tongue in a very effective way.

SCERT (WB) has conducted training of Head of Institutions (HoI) under Schoor Leadership        Development Programme (SLDP) during the COVlD induced pandemic period in the months of           June, July, August and September, 2021 though on-line mode.

SCERT (WB) has conducted training of Head of Institutions of PTTIs  on administrative and office procedures in the months of April 2022 at SCERT

SCERT (WB) has conducted training of DDOs of DIETs and Govt PTTIs  on administrative and financial management in collaboration with Administrative Training Institute  in the months of July2022 at ATI, Saltlake.In the training programe 43 participants were attended and learned various topics viz Roles and Responsibilities of DDO,WBTR,WBFR,SERVICE RULE,LAW,RTI,IFMS MODULE , HRMS MODULE,E OFFICE AND AUDIT

SCERT(WB) has started translation of the Manual on Mathematics Laboratory for Elementary and Secondary Stage. Also SCERT(WB) has organised workshop for designing activity cum Project Book for Mathematics Laboratory for Higher Secondary Stage. After translation and development of new activity SCERT(WB) has planned to set up Higher Secondary level Maths Corner in the Mathematics Laboratory of SCERT(WB). This project has approved by the School Education Department Govt of West Bengal under State Development Scheme in the Financial Year 2019 – 2020.