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HIGHLIGHTS
• TheprogrammehassetuptheTeacher
Educator Group (TEG) for development of
curricula, textbooks and reading material
for pre-service teacher training
• SubjectResourceCentres(SRCs)have
been set up in four DIETs and training of
DIET faculty members is in progress
• Throughtheon-goingin-serviceteacher
training, a total of 2,700 Master Trainers
have been trained by Key Resource
Persons, who are now training 45,000
untrained teachers in the State
• Baselinestudyin100RtEdemonstration
schools has been initiated to assess
the academic level of students in these
schools and to identify the learning
difficulties faced by them
Promoting Inclusive Growth
HIGHLIGHTS
• 24newtextbookshavebeendeveloped
under the programme
• 310KeyResourcePersons(KRPs)have
trained over 2,000 Master Trainers (MTs)
who in turn trained about 120,000 in-
service teachers in the new curriculum
and textbooks
• Thecurricula,syllabiandreading
materials for the BSTC course have been
revised and put in the public domain for
feedback
• RtEcomplianceworkin150
demonstration schools in Baran, Churu
and Jaipur districts is in progress
• SMCshavealreadybeenconstitutedin
schools and a capacity building exercise
is underway
• Sports-basedactivitiesinitiatedfor
building a healthier school environment,
which includes distribution of sports kits
to all 150 demonstration schools in the
programme area.
Through activity-based learning, the School and Teacher
Education Reform programme aims to enable teaching-learning
processes to move away from rote methods of instruction,
towards child-centric and child-friendly environments that
nurture creativity and learning
Certificate (BSTC) course material has been
reviewed and revised in line with NCFTE, 2009.
(c) Governance and institutional accountability –
baseline assessment has been carried out and
in addition, the work done under the programme
so far is being documented in detail for future
reference.
(d) Impact assessment – the programme seeks
to assess impact of its interventions on a
continuous basis including baseline and endline
research, along with assessment documentation
through third parties.
ii) School and Teacher Education Reform
Programme, Chhattisgarh:
 ICICI Foundation signed an MoU with the
Government of Chhattisgarh in 2012 to enable
qualitative improvement in teaching-learning
processes with the State Council Educational
Research and Training (SCERT) in the Government
schools through:
• Revising the State Curriculum Framework,
2007 in line with the RtE, 2009 and instituting
a mechanism for periodic review and
redevelopment of text books
• Pre-serviceandin-serviceteachereducation
(b) Teacher education and training for in-
service and pre-service teachers – under the
programme, in-service teachers are reoriented
in the requisite pedagogy methodologies for
the newly developed textbooks. For pre-service
teacher development, the Basic School Training
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