IN-SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAMMES ORGANISED BY DISTRICT INSTITUTES OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN HIMACHAL PRADESH

The present paper is an attempt to study the status of in-service training programme for elementary teachers organized by the DIETs of Himachal Pradesh. Two mega projects in school education like SSA and RMSA are being implemented by DIETs in Himachal Pradesh. In these projects there is a provision of in-service training programme for school teachers. Every year, every DIET of Himachal Pradesh organized various types of training programme for all Categories of teachers. This paper mainly focused on in-service training of elementary teachers in terms of need assessment, planning and implementation of the training programme. Efforts had been made by the researcher to investigate the design of the training programme, use of ICT, training techniques and strategies adopted by the resource persons and teacher- educators of DIETs. In this research work efforts had also been made to assess the quality and types of training material provided by DIETs for in-service trainees. It has been observed that after the completion of training programme no mechanism is adopted for monitoring and evaluation of these training programmes. This practice leads to wastage of time and resources provided by government for organization of these training programmes. In this paper the investigator also made efforts to see whether in real way some mechanism adopted by DIETs to monitor and evaluate the in-service training programme in real class room situation after the completion of training programme. The views of Heads of elementary schools have also been assessed to validate the information gathered by the in-service teachers.