TO STUDY THE TRAINING MODULES OF INSERVICE TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMME UNDER SARVA SHIKSHA ABHIYAN IN HIMACHAL PRADESH

The in service education of the teachers' become more necessary, not only in view of the advancement in knowledge of the subject to teachers but also due to experiments and innovations in the field of pedagogy and the skills required to adopt those innovative practices. SSA makes a provision of training programmes for inservice teachers for their professional development. The result of the study shows that the time schedule of inservice training changed year to year. The objectives of the training programme were in two areas: general area and curricular area. It was found that maximum weightage was given to theory (70% - 80%) and only 20% - 30% weightage was given to practical activities during training and no follow-up mechanism was followed after training