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Valuing Professional Growth by Teachers
87 gadgets like tape-recorders, overheadprojectors may also increase the effectiveness of SBINSET.
Access to the University departments, district, state and national level institutions and organisations, experts in the various fields, opportunity to meet teachers from other schools and other agencies like the press, productivity councils could also play an effective role in helping teachers to be aware of the recent trends and developments and thus enrich them professionally.
IMPLEMENTATION It need not be over-emphasised that the ultimate succes of a SBINSET programme would mainly lie in its effective implementation. This would require a thoughtful planning, participatory organisation, efficient execution, objective evaluation, proper follow-up and co-operative efforts by all agencies at all levels.
Planning of the programme would require identification of the areas for improvement and determining of the priorities therein for implementation. Talents and interests of teachers will have to be given due consideration during planning. The existing resources of the school should also be kept in mind to make the plan realistic and practical. It would be most desirable if every teacher could be actively involved at this stage. The head of an institution would do well to fix responsibilities of the teachers according to their talent and interests so as to ensure their willing cooperation. A conducive school environment would go a long way in making the SBINSET programme a real success. The success, however, should be subjected to a systematic evaluation. It could be done through an analysis of the impressions and reactions of both teachers and taught. Objective methods will have to be used to know the real impact of different activities on the learning of students which ultimately is the goal of all efforts. Since SBINSET is going to be a on-going programme and an integral part of the school system, it would be essential that arrangements are made to keep a proper follow-up of all that is done under the scheme for further improvement.
The agencies involved in this project will be NCERT, SCERT, NIEPA, Colleges of Education, Extension Services Departments and In-sevice Training Centres. All these agencies will have to take the desired initiative and prepare a programme of action in collaboration with each other. Here again, it will have to be ensured that the field workers, teachers, heads of institutions, managements, parents are actively involved in formulating programmes and schemes for the inservice of education and training of teachers.
HEADMASTER
Institution are known by the Heads they keep. Therefore, as is the Headmaster, so is the School. Since the head of an institution is going to be the key person in
January-March 1993
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