MoE_EVALUATION OF CENTRALLY SPONSORED SCHEME ON TEACHER EDUCATION ON STATES/UTs_2017

The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, took up the study of the Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Teacher Education as a third-party evaluator. The study was conducted between August and September 2017, across 11 States and 2 Union Territories. Field visits were made to 12 State Councils of Educational Research and Training (SCERTs), 13 Institutes of Advanced Studies in Education (IASEs), 19 Colleges of Teacher Education (CTEs), 50 District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs) and 2 Block Institutes of Teacher Education (BITEs). Interactions were held with eight Education Secretaries, Two State Project Directors s, 71 heads of TEIs, 91 faculty and 82 students. Reports of the Joint Review Missions conducted between 2013 and 2017 were also studied. Findings from the study were analysed within the following themes: Infrastructure, Staff, Capacity Building, Collaboration and Networking, Funding and Governance, Teacher Professional Development, Use of Technology and Best Practices.