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The Regional Institutes of Education atAjmer, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Mysoreand Shillong have been functioning asRegional Resource Centres for School andTeacher Education and are striving foracademic excellence, innovation,professional competence, commitmentand the sharing of experiences andexpertise to improve the quality ofeducation in the country. While the RIEsat Ajmer, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar andMysore cater to both the pre-service andin-service teacher education needs of thestates, NERIE, Shillong caters to only thein-service education needs of the NorthEastern states.

The major academic functions of theRIEs are :

• Designing and implementinginnovative pre-service teacher trainingprogrammes

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• Conducting continuing education/in-service training programmes forcapacity-building of the staff of DIETs,CTEs, IASEs and SCERTs and othereducational functionaries of theStates/Union Territories in the region

• Carrying out research anddevelopment activities in various areasof concern of School Education andTeacher Education

• Offering consultancy on mattersrelated to School Education as well asTeacher Education

• Providing Academic Support inSchool Education and TeacherEducation to States and UnionTerritories in the region

• Assisting in the implementation,monitoring and evaluation of centrallysponsored schemes in the region, and

• Assisting the States in thedevelopment, field testing andevaluation of curriculum materials,textbooks and instructionalmaterials, etc.

PRE-SERVICE TEACHEREDUCATION PROGRAMMES

One of the major concerns of theNCERT is the development andoperationalisation of innovativepre-service teacher education courses, viz.four-year integrated B.Sc., B.Ed./B.Sc., Ed.teacher education course in ScienceEducation, two-year B.Ed. (Secondary)course in Science and Humanities, one yearM.Ed. course in Elementary Education andone year Post-Graduate Diploma inGuidance and Counselling (PGDGC) inRIEs at Ajmer, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar andMysore. The RIEs also have the facilitiesfor Ph.D. programme. A total of 2090students were on rolls in various pre-servicecourses in the RIEs. The main emphasis ofthe four-year integrated B.Sc. B.Ed./

The Regional Institutes ofEducation (RIEs) at Ajmer,Bhopal, Bhubaneswar,Mysore and Shillong havebeen functioning as RegionalResource Centres for Schooland Teacher Education andare striving for academicexcellence, innovation,professional competencies,commitment and the sharingof experiences and expertiseto improve the quality ofeducation in the five regionsof the country.

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B.Sc.Ed. course is on quality, i.e. producinggood teachers well-versed in content,process, pedagogy and co-curricularactivities. The one-year M.Ed. ElementaryEducation Course in teacher educationgives adequate emphasis on issues andconcerns in elementary education andresearch based inputs. The pupil-teachers

in the course conduct research studies indifferent priority areas of elementaryeducation. The two-year B.Ed.(Secondary)course in Science and Humanities is anexperimental course based on theguidelines of NCTE. The course-wiseenrolment and results are given in thefollowing tables :

Course-wise Enrolment in RIEs during 2005-06

S.No. Course Ajmer Bhopal Bhubaneswar Mysore

1. B.Sc.B.Ed.

I Year 81 84 91 79

II Year 73 70 89 74

III Year 71 82 85 77

IV Year 71 61 82 77

2. B.Ed. (Secondary)

I Year 80 82 99 80

II Year 72 80 82 77

3. M.Ed. (Elementary) 19 22 21 43

4. PGDGC 22 10 20 34

Total 489 491 569 541

RIE Students' Performance in 2005 University Examinations

Course Ajmer Bhopal Bhubaneswar Mysore

B.Sc.B.Ed./ Students Students Students StudentsB.Sc.Ed. Pass % Pass % Pass % Pass %

I Year

Appeared 76 76 89 76

Passed 73 96.05 69 90.78 88 98.87 74 97.36

II Year


Passed 69 98.57 82 96.47 84 97.67 76 96.20

III Year


Passed 70 100 60 98.36 81 98.78 66 92.95

IV Year


Passed 69 100 75 100 79 95.18 48 83.33

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Demonstration MultipurposeSchoolsThe Demonstration MultipurposeSchools are an integral part of theRIEs and act as laboratories for tryingout innovative practices in schooleducation and teacher education. The

B.Ed.

I Year


Passed 72 96 80 98.76 82 100 74 94.87

II Year


Passed 69 100 75 98.68 85 100 69 91.99

M.Ed.


Passed 15 100 20 95.23 17 100 31 81.58

PGDGC

Appeared 19 24 12 16Passed 19 100 23 95.83 12 100 16 100

Course Ajmer Bhopal Bhubaneswar Mysore

B.Sc.B.Ed./ Students Students Students StudentsB.Sc.Ed. Pass % Pass % Pass % Pass %

Demonstration Multipurpose Schools areaffiliated to the Central Board ofSecondary Education (CBSE), New Delhiand impart education from ClassesI to XII through English and Hindimediums. The enrolment of students isshown below.

Students Enrolment in Demonstration Multipurpose Schoolsfor the Session 2005-06

S.No. Class Ajmer Bhopal Bhubaneswar Mysore

1. I 32 64 68 70

2. II 35 68 69 70

3. III 35 67 60 70

4. IV 35 67 66 70

5. V 36 70 63 70

6. VI 70 65 104 70

7. VII 69 66 105 70

8. VIII 69 67 105 70

9. IX 69 73 108 64

10. X 55 53 106 66

11. XI 103 48 47 52

12. XII 96 57 46 45

Total 704 765 947 787

MAJOR ACTIVITIES OF THEINSTITUTE DURING 2005-06

Research

PAC Approved Research Projects

• A Study of Usefulness of TrainingCourses for SC/ST Key ResourcePersons of Northern Region andUtilisation of Their Service.

Short Term Research Projects

• An Investigation into Understandingthe Concept of Frictional Force atDifferent Levels.

• Study of Students' Understanding ofa Major Environmental Issue : GlobalWarming.

A Study of the Measures for StressFree Examination and its Impact onClass IX students thereof.

Development

• Development of environmentaleducation theme park forstrengthening school and collegeeducation programmes is in progress.

• Development of continuous andcomprehensive strategies for effectiveteaching-learning process duringinternship of 2-year B.Ed. programmewas undertaken.

• Development of Teachers Handbookin Mathematics at Upper PrimaryStage.

• Development of Teachers' Handbookfor Teaching Science and Technologyat Elementary Level (Class VI-VIII).

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Training and Extension

• Training of Key Resource Persons(KRPs) in Development of TeachingLearning Material and Activity – basedTeaching of Science and Technologyat Elementary Level. Participants fromChandigarh, Rajasthan, UttarPradesh, Uttaranchal and Jammuand Kashmir attended the training.(Phase I for SC/ST and Phase II forgeneral category)

• Training of KRPs in laboratory workin Science and Technology atSecondary level for the state of Punjab.

• Training of SC/ST KRPs in Teachingof Science and Technology atSecondary Level for Jammu andKashmir, Himachal Pradesh,Chandigarh and Haryana.

• Training of KRPs in LaboratoryRelated Work in Biology at SeniorSecondary Level for Jammu andKashmir.

• Training of KRPs in Establishment ofMathematics Laboratory atSecondary Level of Punjab andChandigarh U.T.

• Training of KRPs on Improvement ofContent Competence in Physics,Chemistry, Mathematics and Biologyat Senior Secondary Level Based onNew Textbooks. This programme wasexclusively for SC/ST participants ofthe northern region.

• Training of KRPs in teaching ofMathematics at Secondary Level forJammu and Kashmir.

• Training of KRPs in the Developmentand Use of Teaching LearningMaterials of Social Science at

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Secondary Level of Haryana, Jammuand Kashmir, and Punjab.

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• Training of KRPs in the Teaching ofEnglish at Elementary Level of Punjab,Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan.(Phase II for ST KRPs only).

• Training of KRPs in the Teaching ofEnglish with Emphasis on Grammarand Spoken English at SecondaryLevel of Uttaranchal, HimachalPradesh, Jammu and Kashmir.

• Training of KRPs in activities forEconomic empowerment of SC/STgirls through preparation of decorativeitems including clay toys of UttarPradesh, Haryana, Uttaranchal andHimachal Pradesh.

• Development of Modules andTraining in Action Research onScience and Mathematics atElementary Level. Participants fromUttar Pradesh attended the training.

• Training of SC/ST KRPs in Activity-based Teaching and Joyful Learningof Mathematics at Primary Level ofUttaranchal.

• Training in Capacity Building forDIET/SIE/SCERT Personnels ofChandigarh, Uttar Pradesh andUttaranchal.

• Training of KRPs in Teaching Childrenwith Special Educational Needs atElementary Level in Inclusive Schoolsof Jammu and Kashmir.

• Comprehensive Training Programmeon Environmental Education,Adolescence Education and Evaluationfor Haryana, Punjab, Jammu andKashmir and Himachal Pradesh.

• Training of SC/ST KRPs in the Contentand Methodology of Teaching

Environmental Studies at Primary Levelof Chandigarh, Haryana and Punjab.

• Post Graduate Diploma in Guidanceand Counselling.

• Conference of Headmasters/Principals of Cooperative Schools.

• Training of Pupil Teachers of B.Ed.(Secondary) on Field Work withCommunity.

Extension Lectures

Prof. Sibnath Sarma, Ex Dean ArtsFaculty, Guwahati University gave alecture on "Philosophy, Education andCulture" at the institute.

Internship Programmes

The programme was organised in twophases. Phase one was for Internship inteaching for B.Sc.,B.Ed. IVth year andB.Ed.(Sec.) second year students andphase two was for pre-internship inteaching for B.Ed.(Sec.) first yearstudents. The Internship in Teaching forB.Sc.,B.Ed. IVth year and B.Ed.(Sec.)second year was organised from 16thAugust 2005 to 1st October 2005in sixteen schools of Ajmer cityand nearby places preceded by HeadMasters Conference organised on11th August 2005. The Pre-Internshipprogramme for B.Ed. Ist year wasorganised from 22nd January 2006 to19th February 2006. One day conferenceof Head Masters/Principals and seniorteachers from cooperative schools wasorganised on 20th January 2006.

Working With Community : Trainingof pupil teachers of B.Ed. Secondary PartI on Field work with community wasorganised from 3-11 February 2006 inPushkar and Pisangan Panchayat Samitiof Ajmer district. The specific objectivesof the programme were to acquaint thepupil teachers with the factors of workingwith community and the real life problems

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of the community, and to developmeaningful relationship betweeneducation and community, decentralisedmanagement system and skills relating tothe organisation of educationalprogrammes with the community. Theprogramme was organised in four villages,i.e. Chawandia, Tilora, Dungaria Khurdand Dungaria Kalan. In all 76 pupilteachers participated in the programme.The participatory approach was followedin the training programme and survey often households as per prescribedproforma of SSA was undertaken,members of School Development andManagement Committee (SDMC) wereinterviewed to understand problems andissues, contribution and achievements ofSDMC, study of self-help groups activatedfor women empowerment was done tounderstand organisational, motivationaland financial problems. Activitiesorganised by Kishori Manch, SavyamSahayata Samooh, Anganwai Centreswere also observed. Pupil teachers

NCC Cadets in action

organised cultural activities in the eveningin each village, such as Nukkar Natak,group dance, songs etc. to develop skillsto convey a message to community onvarious problems related to socio-economic and educational aspects of thecommunity.

Campus Selections : Four publicschools of the region visited the instituteand conducted campus interviews for thestudents of B.Sc., B.Ed. IVth year andB.Ed. IInd year. About 16 students wereselected for different posts by the schools.

XXI RIE-NCERT Staff Sports Meet : RIEAjmer staff team comprising 21 men andtwo women members, participated in theXXI NCERT sports meet held at RIE,Mysore from 12 to 16 December 2005.RIE, Ajmer won the badmintonchampionship both in singles anddoubles; and were runners-up in cricketand football.

NCC : Under the NCC programme severalactivities were conducted including


training camp for girls. Forty boys andthirty girls are cadets of the NCC. CadetKm. Raj Divedi was group commanderof Rajasthan contingent in the RepublicDay parade 2006 at Raj Path, New Delhi.Also Km. Ranjeeta Dwivedi was selectedfor youth exchange programme to be heldin Canada for three months.

Prof. H. C. Jain, Principal (from1 December 2005) participated in theInternational Conference in Physics heldat Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi from21-26 August 2005 and presented apaper on "Students' Contemplationsabout the Physical Quantities". Hepublished two papers : one on "Scientistsand Scientific Methods" and the other on"Students' Ideas about Working ofElectrical Components" in School Science.

Prof. K. M. Gupta contributed a paperon "Inequality, Violence and Peace" at theInternational Conference on Sixty Years

Sports Meet at RIE, Ajmer

Exhibition: An exhibition on"Representing Indian women 1875-1947"was organised from 20-23 February 2006in collaboration with the Centre forWomen Development Studies, New Delhi.The exhibition included exhibits of Indianwomen who have excelled in differentareas in the country.

MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS OF THERIE FACULTY

Prof. A. B. Saxena worked as Principal,RIE, Ajmer upto 30 November 2005 andthereafter as Professor in PSSCIVE,

Bhopal. During this period he published"Understanding Relativity UsingMinkowshi Diagram" in School Science,Vol. LXIII No. 3, September 2005. He alsocontributed to Evaluation of EnvironmentEducation in Schools' for an EnvironmentEducation Manual for teachers inRajasthan, and a lesson on EnvironmentalEducation for Bhoj Open University.

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after World War II : Lesson for PeaceBuilding, APPRA and Jaipur PeaceFoundation. He coordinated theprogramme of development of syllabi ofM.Ed. and B.Ed. of MDS University, Ajmer.He participated in the interaction meetingfor review of pre-service and in-servicecourses of RIEs and a treatise on policyperspectives on Education of ScheduledCastes in India. He guided research,organised activities of Peace Club in theInstitute, and acted as a member of thefocus group on Peace Education.

Prof. K. B. Rath worked as coordinatorof Post Graduate Diploma in Guidanceand Counselling course. One student hasbeen awarded Ph.D under his guidance.He provided training to First Yearstudents of two-year B.Ed. course ondeveloping teaching competence andcommitment. He was involved in planningfor automation of the Institute, andconsultancy was provided to an NGO oninclusive education.

Prof. M.M. Pandey conducted tworesearch studies : one on "Measures of stressfree examination and their impact on ClassIX students" and the other on "Usefulnessof training courses/materials for SC/STpersonnel and utilisation of their servicesby the respective states". He coordinatedtraining programmes on capacity buildingof DIETs and SCERTs and activity-basedteaching and joyful learning of Mathematicsat the primary level.

Shri R.S. Kothari, Reader guided thestudents in preparation of innovativeteaching aids.

Dr. S.K. Pranami, Reader conducted aprogramme on "Teaching of English" forthe teachers of the northern region. Healso worked as convener of CoursesCommittee in English of the Board ofSecondary Education, Rajasthan andedited the Course Reader for Class X as ateam leader.

Dr. Rajesh Mishra, Reader worked asa State Coordinator for Uttar Pradesh. Hewas involved in the writing of the textbookof Urdu for Class IV.

Dr. Animesh Mohapatra, Readerconducted an ERIC research project on"Study of students understanding of aMajor Environmental Issue : GlobalWarming". He coordinated three trainingprogrammes. He published three paperson "Effect of Thiotepa on the CephalicNeurosecretory Cells of Adult Philosamiaricini Hut"t. (Lepidoptera : Saturnidae).Indian Journal of Environmental Science9(1): 39-45, 2005; "Studies on theRetrocerebral Glands of Mature Larva ofPhilosamia Ricini (L)" Flora and Fauna,11(2) : 136-140, 2005 and "Self improve-ment : key for an effective science teacher"Edutracks, 5(2), 6 November 2005. Hewrote a book on Environmental Studies.(Panchshila Publisher, 2005.) He isinvolved in the preparation of Teachers'Handbook in Science at Upper PrimaryLevel -NCERT 2005-06.

Dr. I.B. Chugtai, Reader guided oneM.Ed. dissertation. He conducted onePAC programme on Inclusive Educationand developed instructional material. Heprovided consultancy to the states ofRajasthan and Haryana in InclusiveEducation. He contributed to theRefresher courses organised by theinstitute for PGTs in Biology and Physicsof NVS and KVS.

Dr. V.P. Agarwal, Reader worked as amember of the committee to review the pre-service and in-service programmes beingcurrently organised at four RIEs. Heguided M.Ed. and Ph.D. scholars. He isthe co-ordinator of SSA cell of the Instituteand organised a regional meeting onQuality Elementary Education under SSAat RIE, Ajmer from 20-21 March 2006. Healso organised a conference of Principalsand Headmasters of Cooperative schools


for Internship Programme and conductedComprehensive Training Programme onEvaluation at SCERT, Solan.

Dr. S.S. Pandey, Reader guided andsupervised Ph.D. thesis on "A Study ofGeomatrical Competencies among Primaryschool Children". He guided M.Ed.dissertations, organised programmesentitled "Development of Modules andTraining in Action Research on Scienceand Mathematics at Primary level" and"Training of SC/ST KRPs in the contentcum methodology of teachingEnvironmental Studies at Primary Level"and "Capacity Building of Functionariesin Environmental Education and DisasterManagement including mitigation.”

Dr. R.K.S. Arora, Reader organisedprogrammes on Adolescence Education,Environment Education and Evaluationfor Teacher Educators. He presented apaper on "Drought in Western Rajasthan"in the International Conference held atChennai in July 2005. He also attendedone-day conference on “Recent Trends inPopulation Growth in India” organisedby MDS University, Ajmer in March 2006.

Dr. Nagendra Singh, Reader guided andsupervised four Ph.D. theses. He guidedM.Ed. dissertations. He contributed to thedevelopment of training modules forSDMCs under SSA and was activelyinvolved in other SSA work. He conductedthe training of pupil teachers of First YearB.Ed.(Sec.) students on field work withcommunity. He provided consultancy tovoluntary organisations working in thearea of NFE/AE in Rajasthan andpublished an article on "Role of TeacherOrganisations in Promoting SSA", inProgress of Education, Vol. IV No. 8 Pune.

Dr. S.K. Paradkar, Reader acted asIncharge Computer Cell. He conducted aprogramme on the teaching of Physics at+2 level. He attended a trainingprogramme on "ICT Pedagogy Interaction"

conducted by UNESCO, Bangkok andNAC, Bangalore. He worked as one of theteam members in the preparation ofTeachers' Handbook for Science at UpperPrimary level. He also coordinated aRefresher course for PGT Teachers ofPhysics of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas.

Dr. Ajay Singh Ruhal, Reader guidedand supervised Ph.D. theses. He attendedthe national level workshop in PhysicalEducation on Nomenclature, Norms,Standard and Curriculum for Teachers'Training Institutions of PhysicalEducation in India.

Dr. Sukhvir Singh, Reader conducted aprogramme on improvement of contentcompetence in Chemistry at SeniorSecondary level based on New Textbooks.He prepared a training package andimparted training to the participants. Healso acted as one of the members of theWriting Team in the development ofNCERTs New Textbook of Science for ClassIX and Textbook of Chemistry for Class XI.

Dr. K. C. Sharma, Reader is coordinatingthe preparation of Teachers' Handbook inScience and Technology at upper primarylevel. He published a paper on "Influenceof students' pre concept on learning theconcept of force" in Physics Education.

Dr. Ram Niwas, Senior Lecturerparticipated in a seminar on SSA andworked as resource person in aprogramme on Hindi at the Secondarylevel for the tribal regions. He alsoparticipated at RIE, Mysore for thepreparation of general guidelines forwriting Hindi Teaching Handbook.

Dr. A. R. Agarwal, Senior Lecturerconducted one PAC programme on the"Establishment of MathematicsLaboratory at Secondary Level" for theteachers of the northern region. He alsoworked as State Co-ordinator for threestates viz. Punjab, Haryana and UnionTerritory of Chandigarh.

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Dr. S. V. Sharma, Lecturer coordinateda programme on "Development ofTeaching-Learning Material (TLM) andactivity-based teaching of science atelementary level" for teacher educators.He conducted a research project"Understanding the Concept of FrictionalForce at Different Levels". He published apaper on "Superconductivity and itsApplications", School Science Vol. XLIII,No.1, p.14-29 (January 2005) andanother on "Influence of Students,Pre-concept on Learning the Concept ofForce", Physics Education Vol. 22, No.3,p.179-189 (October-December 2005).He worked as a team member of SSA.

Dr. Til Prasad Sarma, Lecturercoordinated the programmes on "Teachingof Mathematics at Secondary Level" andon "Improvement of Content Competencein Mathematics at Senior Secondary Level"based on the New Textbooks. He publisheda paper on "Lie Technique in Restrictedthree Body Problem", Ganita Sandesh,Vol.19, 2005, 63-78.

Dr. V. Rani Prameela, Lecturercontributed as a resource person in theprogramme on Adolescence Education,Environment Education and Evaluationfor teacher educators.

Dr. A. Goswami, Lecturer guided oneM.Ed. dissertation. He worked in the areaof Value Education and delivered lectureson it in various orientation courses. Hepublished a paper in co-authorship on"Yoga Va Dhyan Dwara Atmanubhuti-Shaikshik Avashayakta" in BhartiyaAdhunik Shiksha (Jan.2005), NCERT.

Shri Albert Horo, Lecturer conducted aprogramme on the preparation ofTeaching-Learning Materials at secondarylevel. He supervised the regular NSSactivities organised throughout the yearincluding a ten-day camp on the theme"Youth for Health". He also organised aseven-day Basic Training in First Aid for

the students of RIE in collaboration withthe Red Cross Society, Ajmer.

Ms. Pushp Lata Verma, Lecturerparticipated as a resource person invarious training programmes andseminars in RIE, Ajmer. She attended theOrientation Programme organised forNCERT faculty at NIE, New Delhi. Shedeveloped material for EnvironmentEducation Theme Park, beingconstructed in RIE, Ajmer. Her article"Sagar Ka Kaher - Tsunami" is underpublication in Prathamik Shikshak.

Shri Anand Kumar Arya, Lecturercontributed as resource person in atraining to key resource persons inplanning, organisation and conduct oflaboratory work. He worked as a resourceperson in another programme onImprovement of Content Competence inChemistry at Senior Secondary levelbased on new textbooks. He also assistedin training of master trainers of KVS, NVSand CBSE affiliated schools on newtextbooks developed by NCERT.

Shri J. P. Narayan, Lecturer worked asa member of the committee entrusted withplanning and development of EcologicalTheme Park at RIE, Ajmer. He acted as aresource person in various trainingprogrammes. He was involved in thedevelopment of concept cartoons for thenewly introduced Class VI science bookto generate discussion and enhanceunderstanding of students. He worked asOfficer In-charge NCC (Senior Div.) of theInstitute and organised activities for boysand girl troops.

Dr. T.V. Somashekar, Lecturercontributed as resource person inprogrammes on "training of capacitybuilding for DIETs/SIEs/SCERTspersonnel of Chandigarh, UP andUttaranchal; "Training of KRPs in teachingChildren with Special Needs at ElementaryLevel in Inclusive Schools (J & K)";"Comprehensive training programme on


Environmental Education, AdolescenceEducation and Evaluation"; "Developmentof Modules and training in Action Researchon Science and Mathematics atElementary Level (UP)"; Training of PupilTeachers of B.Ed (Sec.) Part I on Field workwith community". He providedConsultancy to State Boards in the regionregarding Grading System and Ed. CIL forappraisal work of SSA Plans of Haryanaand attended a regional conference onNCF-2005 organised at RIE, Ajmer. He isa member of SSA cell and attended twodays regional orientation programme onmonitoring of quality diemensions underSSA at Chandigarh.

Ku. Sujata B. Hanchinalkar, Lecturerco-guided and co-supervised M.Eddissertation titled "Training learningConcept of Pre-service in relation to theirPerceived Competency : Implication forTeacher Training". She contributed asresource person in programmes entitled"Training of KRPs in teaching childrenwith Special Educational needs atElementary level in Inclusive schools(J & K)" and Refresher course in Biologyfor PGTs of Navodaya Vidyalayas". UnderOrientation activity for PGDGC, 21students of PGDGC were acquainted withtechniques of Guidance and Counsellingthrough field visits to different institutesat Bangalore and Mysore.

Dr. Shashi Prabha, Lecturer coordinateda programme entitled "Training of KRPsin Laboratory Work in Science andTechnology at the Secondary Level for theState of Punjab". She also contributed inother five training programmes organisedby the institute. She contributed indevelopment of the material for Teachers'Handbook to teach science at elementarylevel. Her paper on "Activity approachLearning of Science : Learner'sPerspectives" has been published inInvestigata, Vol IV.

Dr. V. C. Gupta A.F.A. worked as a statecoordinator for J & K, Rajasthan andDelhi. He coordinated interaction meetingof the northern region, all Indiacompetition on innovative practices andexperiments for school teachers and theexhibition on "Representing Indian Women1875-1947". He worked as a member ofthe SSA team. He organised an approvedprogramme "How to organise quiz at +2level" and worked as a resource person forSocial Studies programme.

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Innovative Steps : Identification of weakand slow learners and truants was doneand remedial steps are being taken suchas meticulous correction work andremedial classes for improving academicachievements of the students. Professionaland career oriented guidance andcounselling has been introduced for theXI and XII class students.

Inter DM School Meet was organisedat DMS, Ajmer from 26-29 December2005 and the four -day programmeincluded (i) Literary Competition [Englishand Hindi] (ii) Games and Athletic events(iii) Cultural Items. Students of DMschools won various prizes and shields.

Awards and Prizes Won by Students• 27 Second Year NCC Cadets were

awarded certificates.

• 21 NCC Cadets attended annualtraining camp held at Vishram Sthalfrom 4-13 October 2005 andparticipated in various programmes.

• Chakrawarti Lakhawat Class XII hasbeen awarded 1st prize inVivekanand Quiz Competition andAbhibhashan competition.

• Shakti Singh of Class X was awarded2nd prize in Abhibhashan competition.

• Yukti Mishra, Preeti Verma and BhartiSharma of Class XII, Piyush Arya and

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Kritika Sharma of Class IX and YogitaSankhla of Class X were awarded 1stprize in the Patriotic Song Competition.

• Shaleen Garg, Rahul Sen, VajayantiMotwani, Prachi Sethi, Heena Sharmaof Class IX were awarded 1st prize inGeeta Slokas Song Competition.

• Bhawana Sharma of Class VIII hasbeen awarded 2nd prize in EssayCompetition.

• Pawan Kumar Class VII student wasawarded scholarship of Rs.1200/- bythe Lakhotia Trust, New Delhi.

Sports and Co-curricular ActivitiesThe school insisted an active andcompulsory participation in-houseactivities, games and sports.

• Yukti Mishra Class XII got secondprize among 5000 participants in theDrawing competition organised byLIC of India.

Students of DMS, Ajmer at the Exhibition on“Representing Indian Women (1875-1947)

• The school conducted typing, PowerPoint and computer quiz for the seniorand junior students.

Major Contributions of the Faculty

D.N. Pandey, Headmaster participatedas key resource person in handbookwriting workshop for the Hindi Teachersof Class VI to VIII. He was also a resourceperson in a workshop on "Teaching ofHindi" organised for PGTs from tribalareas of Rajasthan. He also participatedin a workshop sponsored by UGC on"Rethinking of Methodology for TeachingEnglish language and literature incolleges and schools" and in theprogramme on "Adolescence education.

Dr. Indu Sharma and Smt. RanjanaKandari attended six-week peaceeducation programme at NCER Theadquarters from 6th June to 15thJuly 2005.


Shri M.L. Meena, Shri R.S. Chittodia,Gayatri Jagtayani and Smt. MeenaJain attended a three-week in-serviceprogramme during the summer vacation.

Results of Board Examination, 2005

Class No. of Students Appeared No. of Students Passed Pass %

X 60 47 78.33

XII Science 27 16 59.25

XII Humanities 21 21 100.00

XII Commerce 30 24 80.00

Shir Kamlesh Soni and Shri SartajSingh participated in the stafftournament held at Mysore from 12-15December 2005.


Research

Research at Ph.D. Level

21 research scholars are working onvarious research projects leading to thePh.D. degree on their merit/quality ofwork. The Institute is providing facilitiesto these research scholars under theguidance of faculty members.

Development

• Development of exemplar instructionalmaterial on methodology of teachingSocial Sciences for Class VIII

• Material development-cum-trainingworkshop for the KRPs of MadhyaPradesh, Maharashtra and Goa onInclusive Education. Forty personsparticipated in five days orientationprogramme. A visit to Asha Niketanand Composite Regional Centre forChildren with Special Needs was alsoorganised for the benefit of theparticipants

• Development of evaluation strategiesin environmental education at theupper primary and secondary level

• Developmental workshop-cum-trainingprogramme of KRPs for innovativepractices in teaching of Chemistry at thehigher secondary stage

• Development-cum-training workshopfor KRPs in innovative practices inteaching Biology at the highersecondary stage

• Development-cum-training workshopfor KRPs in innovative practices forteaching of Physics at the highersecondary stage

• Development of tools and its try-outfor quality assessment of D.EdColleges

• Development of evaluation strategiesin environmental education at upperprimary and secondary level (VI to X)

• Capacity building of DIET faculty totrain primary teachers in conductingAction Research

• Development of innovative instructionalmaterials for Key Resource Persons forteaching of Commerce at seniorsecondary level

• RIE faculty provided academic inputsfor revision of the syllabus atSecondary and Higher Secondary levelof Madhya Pradesh.


• Training programmes for innovativepractices in teaching of Physics at thehigher secondary level were organised

• Training programmes for innovativepractices in teaching of Chemistry at thehigher secondary level were organised

• Training programmes for innovativepractices in teaching of Biology at thehigher secondary level were organised

• Training of DIET faculty for teachingEnvironmental Education, EducationalTechnology and Action Research

• Training of KRPs of Madhya Pradeshfor content enrichment andtransactional strategies in Urdu

• Training for Inculcation ofEnvironmental Awareness andScientific Temper at the upperprimary stage in slums of Bhopal city

• Training cum working group meetingof principals and teachers ofparticipating schools for internship inteaching

• Training of KRPs in Human RightsEducation

• Post Graduate Diploma in Guidanceand Counselling

Regional Institute of Education, Bhopal


• Training programme for innovativepractices in teaching of Biology at thehigher secondary level.

Internship Programmes

Teacher preparation is a complexprocess. It aims at the developmentof proper knowledge skills ofteaching-learning process and rightattitudes among the teachertrainees; theory of teaching learntduring the course is put to practiceduring Internship. It is duringinternship that proper skills andattitudes are internalised by pupilteachers. To share the understandingregarding internship with the Principalsof Cooperating Schools, Working GroupMeeting of Principals was organisedon 10th and 11th August 2005. A totalof 226 Internees of B.Ed.II year,B.Sc.B.Ed. IV year and B.Ed. I year wereplaced in 18 different schools of Bhopal,Nagpur and Ahmedabad. Before sendingpupil-teachers to different schools,pre-placement orientation for B.Ed. II yearand B.Sc.B.Ed.-IV year was organised for

a week during August 2005, whereinpupil-teachers practise core-skills ofteaching in simulated conditions.Core-training for B.Ed.I year was alsoorganised from 8 August to 12 August2005. After the completion of Internship,Viva-Voce and Post-Internship Meetingwas organised on 29-30 December 2005.

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) : RIE,Bhopal has been assigned theresponsibility to help MHRD, Governmentof India for the implementation of SSA inthe western region of the country. TheInstitute is actively involved inimplementation, monitoring andsupervision of SSA. A team consisting oftwo members : Prof. O.N. Awasthi andDr. Sharad Kumar took up the work ofsupervision and monitoring. The teamregularly visits the State once in everythree months and the reports of thesevisits are sent to MHRD, Government ofIndia for further necessary action.

Working with Community : Pre-serviceteacher trainees were divided into subgroups and asked to developquestionnaires in the domain of social,

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economic and educational aspects whichwere subsequently administered tosurrounding village communities. Thedata were arranged and synthesised. Thestudents were graded on the basis ofcomprehensive reports based on the data.

Collaboration with States and otheragencies : The institute has collaboratedwith SCERTs/SIEs of Madhya Pradesh,Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Gujarat andGoa in many academic programmes. Inparticular the institute provided technicalsupport and expertise in a series ofworkshops of book writing, developmentof teacher training modules and otherteaching-learning materials and teachertraining at regional and national levels.

Students Exchange• Final Year students and faculty

members of RIE, Mysore visited theInstitute on 7 December 2005.

• Students from Lucknow Universityvisited the institute on 28 December2005 on a study tour programme.These visits enabled our students tointeract and exchange ideas withstudents from other parts of thecountry.

Awards and Prizes Won by Students• Ku. Aruna Bajantri, B.Sc.B.Ed. IV Year

(2004-05) received Dr. Shankar DayalSharma Gold Medal award for theyear 2005.

• The following toppers of the UniversityExamination, 2005 were awarded theprize of Rs. 100 per student.

Ku. Shweta Chauhan, B.Sc., B.Ed.IV year.

Ku. Pratima, second Year B.Ed.(Secondary).

Shri Kulkarni Chandan M.Ed.(Elementary Education).

• Mr Paritosh Nath Shukla wasadjudged the Best Cadet.

• Mr Aniruddha Tiwari participated inPM rally and NIAP rally.

• Senior Under Officer (NCC Girls)Huma Ansari, B.Sc., B.Ed. IIIrd yearvisited England under theInternational Youth ExchangeProgramme.

• Ku. Manisha Saroha, B.Sc., B.Ed. IIndyear participated in the NationalRepublic Day Parade at New Delhiand was adjudged the best cadet fromMadhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

• A Blood Donation Camp wasorganised on 3 February 2006 incollaboration with Gandhi MedicalCollege, Bhopal. 25 students donatedblood in the camp.

• Ku. Surabhi Shukla and Ku. PoojaArora of B.Sc., B.Ed. IVth yearparticipated in the Inter CollegeTeaching Aid Demonstration Contestat the Regional Science Centre, Bhopalon 28 February 2006. Ku. SurabhiShukla won the First Prize and Ku.Pooja Arora was awarded anappreciation prize.

Literary Activities• Literary events were organised on 27

January 2006. The activities includeddebates, extempore, essay writingcompetition and quiz.

• Ms. Sana Jafari and Ms PallaviShrivastava were adjudged the best inliterary activities.

Scientific ActivitiesScientific activities were organisedon 30 January 2006 with the aim ofarousing the interest of students inscience and building a scientific temper.

• Ku Surabhi Shukla was adjudged thebest in science activities.

• Science Week was celebrated this yearfrom 23-28 February 2006. On thisoccasion an Inter-School paintingcompetition was organised at DMSchool, Bhopal and Inter-CollegeDeclamation contest and Postercompetition were organised at the


Institute. Shri V.B. Raigonkar,Education Officer, Regional ScienceCentre, Bhopal demonstrated manyexperiments on Science Day.

Cultural Activities• Cultural events were organised on 31

January 2006.

• Ku. Asha Jyoti Das was judged thebest performer in cultural activities.

Sports Activities• The 42nd Annual Sports Meet was

organised from 31 January to1 February 2006. The athletic meetbegan with a march past by thestudents. More than 30 track andfield events were held. Gandhi Housesecured the first position followed byNehru House and Patel House inthat order.

• Shri Uma Shankar Das was declaredthe champion among male athletes andKu. Karuna Vishwakarma was declaredchampion among female athletes.

Campus InterviewsThe Campus Placement Cell of the Instituteorganised an interview for students ofB.Sc.B.Ed. IV–year and B.Ed. II yearclasses for jobs of TGT/PGT in schools. Sixschools participated in the process. Twelvestudents were offered jobs.


Prof. M. Sen Gupta, Principal guidedresearch at the institute. He wasnominated as Member of the TeacherEducation Resource Group of NCTE andalso worked on the Executive Board ofNIOS. His article on "Uttar Audyogic kiShaikshik Chunountian" was publishedin Shikhar Varta, 2005.

Prof. V.J. Jadhao worked as a resourceperson in teacher training programmesrelated to teaching of science organisedby the institute for the state of MadhyaPradesh. He provided consultations to theRajya Shiksha Kendra, Bhopal for

development of textbooks ofenvironmental science and science at theelementary level.

Prof. I.P. Aggarwal conducted aworkshop-cum-training programme ofKRPs for innovative practices in teachingof Chemistry at the higher secondary stagefor the states of Maharashtra and Goa.

Prof. O.N. Awasthi conducted adevelopment-cum-training workshop forKRPs in innovative practices in teachingof Physics at the higher secondary levelfor quality assessment of D.Ed. colleges.

Prof. Subramanyam published underco-authorship a paper entitled,"Relationship between Self Concept,Achievement and Motivation inMathematics : A Gender Comparison", inEdutracks.

Prof. V.P. Gupta conducted a trainingprogramme of content enrichment inChemistry for teachers of Class XI and XIIin the state of Gujarat. He also conducteda training programme for inculcation ofenvironmental awareness and scientifictemper in upper primary stage learnersof slums in Bhopal city.

Dr. Mandal Jaydip, Reader conducted adevelopment-cum-training workshop forKRPs in innovative practices in teachingBiology at the higher secondary level.

Dr. Sharad Kumar, Reader developedtools for quality assessment of D.Ed.colleges. He also developed innovativeinstructional materials for KRPs forteaching of Commerce at the seniorsecondary level.

Dr. S.K. Gupta, Reader conducted aworkshop for development and trainingof KRPs in inclusive education for theStates of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtraand Goa. He organised the Post GraduateDiploma in Guidance and Counselling inthe Institute in the session. He attendeda meeting to review the programmes ofIED Cell of Rajya Siksha Kendra, Bhopal

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and also guided Ph.D. level research on'Learning difficulties in English Language'.

Dr. U. Lakshminarayana, Readerconducted a programme for capacitybuilding of DIET faculty to train primaryteachers in conducting Action Research.He conducted a follow-up study forimplementation of school-basedevaluation in KVs and other State schoolsof Bhopal. He has completed ERIC Projecton "Pre-service teachers education foremerging diverse educational context :perspectives, practices and prospects.” Hepresented a paper in a conferenceorganised by the Indo-US Science Forumon utilisation of space based resources todevelop science education. He also guidedfour research scholars for Ph.D. inEducation and one was awarded andothers are in the process.

Dr. V.K. Kakaria, Reader contributed indevelopment of Biology textbook for ClassXII of NCERT. He also contributed in thepreparation of Teachers' resource materialin Science at elementary level (ClassesVI–VIII). He conducted a development-cum-training workshop for KRPs ofMaharashtra and Goa on innovativepractices in teaching of Biology at highersecondary level. He also worked as aresource person in training of KRPs onimprovement of content competence inBiology at the senior secondary levelorganised for SC/ST teachers of Punjab,Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal,Chandigarh, Jammu & Kashmir,Rajasthan and Himachal Pradeshorganised by RIE, Ajmer.

Dr. Reeta Sharma, Reader worked asmember of textbook writing team of ClassX Science textbook of NCERT. She editedthe Class VII textbook of sciencedeveloped by Rajya Shikha Kendra,Bhopal. She worked as a resourceperson in an In-service TrainingProgramme of PGTs (Bio.)held at M.P.Board of Secondary Education andpresented a research paper in National

Seminar on Plant Physiology held atNational Botanical Research Institute,Lucknow on 20 November 2005.

Dr. B.K.Tripathi, Reader conducted atraining programme for contentenrichment in Biology at senior secondarylevel for KRPs of Gujarat state.

Dr. I.S. Bhaduri, Reader developedmaterial on evaluation stretegies inEnvironmental Education at upperprimary and secondary level for thestates of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtraand Goa.

Dr. A.K. Rajput, Reader organisedtraining of KRPs of DIETs of Maharashtraand Goa in information technology. Hecontributed for NCERT's Class XI textbookin Mathematics. He also developed videolessons through SETCOM (MP) for ClassIX and X. He presented a paper 'Virtualclassroom : an experiment in three tribaldistricts of M.P.' in the National Conferenceon Educational Technology andInformation Practices organised by CIET(NCERT) New Delhi.

Dr. Ramakar Raizada, Reader submittedtwo research papers 'Challenges to theEducational Leadership in the 21stCentury' and 'Effective Management ofPrimary Education' in the NationalSeminar at M.S. University, Baroda. Heworked as a resource person in All IndiaWorkshop for Teachers of Social Studiesof Sainik Schools conducted at SainikSchool Balachadi, Jamnagar (Gujarat).He also contributed in the workshopsorganised by the M.P. Board for revisionof the syllabus of Commerce subjects andits further review in the light of NCF, 2005.

Dr. K.K. Khare, Reader presented apaper in the National Seminar on'Application of Statistics and Computersin Physical Education and Sports' atLNIPE, Gwalior. He developed selfInstructional material for B.Ed throughdistance mode for Bhoj University andalso extended expertise in Physical


Education and Yoga to BarkatullahUniversity and Madhya Pradesh Board ofSecondary Education.

Dr. P. Kulshreshtha, Sr. Lecturer workedas a resource person in the programmesorganised by the institute. He worked asstate coordinator for the states ofMaharashtra, Goa and Chhattisgarh. Healso worked as member of Sarva ShikshaAbhiyan team of RIE, Bhopal.

Dr. M.F Ansari, Sr. Lecturer conducteda training programme for KRPs ofMadhya Pradesh for enrichment ofcontent and transactional strategies inteaching Urdu at the elementary level.

Dr. Mohd. Siraj Anwar, Sr. Lecturerpublished two papers, 'Khandesh and itsneighbours : Political relations down toAD.1526' in Summerhill, IIAS Review,Vol. XI, No.1, 2005 and 'Impact of PrinceKhurram's Revolt in the MughalCampaigns in Deccan' in Studies inHumanities and Social Sciences, Vol XII,No.2, Winter, 2005, Journal of UGCInter-University Centre for Humanitiesand Social Sciences, IIAS, Shimla.

He co-ordinated training programme ofMaster Trainers of KVS, NVS and CBSEaffiliated schools on new textbooks ofNCERT for Class XI (History), Class VI(Social Science) and Class III (EVS), basedon NCF (2005). He also developedExemplar Instructional Material inmethodology of teaching Social Sciencesfor Class VIII.

Shri S.G. Wadekar, Lecturer attendedthree workshops in connection with thepreparation of new textbooks for Marathilanguage for Class VII organised bySCERT, Madhya Pradesh.

Dr. V.S.Prasad, Lecturer participated inthe meetings for preparation of manuals ofMathematics for the senior secondary level.

Shri Ram Avdhesh Singh, Lecturerworked as a resource person in All IndiaWorkshop for teachers of Social Studies ofSainik School Society conducted at SainikSchool, Balachadi Jamnagar in Gujarat.He participated in a training programmeorganised by the Regional Centre forCultural Research and Training, Udaipuron Methodologies, Cultural Components

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in Curriculum Teaching and UsingCulture as a base for achieving anIntegrated Approach to Education.

Dr. A.K.Gupta, Lecturer conducted aprogramme on development of trainingmodules on teaching strategies of science(Biology) for secondary schools ofChhattisgarh. He also worked asresource person in the development-cum-training workshop for KRPs ininnovative practices for teaching Biologyat higher secondary stage for the statesof Maharashtra and Goa.

Shri S.B. Pandagale, Lecturer organisedan orientation of KRPs on gender sensitiveclassroom practices for the Western Region.

Dr. Rashmi Singhai, Lecturer worked asa resource person in preparation of Teachers'Handbook at elementary level and intraining of KRPs in the development of TLMon Activity-based Teaching of Science andTechnology at the elementary level.

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Inter-house Literary Competitions

Inter-house literary competitions wereorganised on 5 August 2005 and 8August 2005. Inter-house paintingcompetition was held on 16 August2005. Inter-house literary competitionswere again held on 13, 15 and 17September 2005. Inter -house quizcompetition was organised on 26September 2005. Inter-house literarycompetitions of English were held on 2September 2005. Cultural competitionswere held on 4-5 October 2005.

Annual DayAnnual sports meet was organised on26-27 October 2005 at the RIEplayground. Annual day and prizedistribution function of the primarysection of the school was held on 21December 2005 at Ravindra Bhawan.Secondary Section's Annual Day and

prize distribution function was held on22 December 2005 at the same venue.

Inter–School Painting CompetitionInter–School Painting Competition washeld on 19 November 2005. About 1000students from different schools of Bhopalparticipated in it. Parents-teachers meetwas held on 10 December 2005.

Participation in Inter DemonstrationSchools' Meet 2005Thirty five students participated in InterDemonstration Schools Meet 2005organised by D.M.S. Ajmer from 26-29December 2005. The meet consisted ofsports, literary and cultural competitions.D.M. School Bhopal students won thechampionship in games and sports.D.M.S. Bhopal won 6 gold, 6 silver and 5bronze medals. Students of DMS Bhopalwere winners in volleyball (Boys andGirls), basketball (Girls) and table tennis(Boys).They were runners up inbasketball (Boys) and winners in 1500 m.race (Boys), high jump (Girls), 400 m.(Girls), 800 m. (Girls) mixed relay and 4X100 m. relay( Girls). Sumit Gupta, ClassXI and Ku. Shraddha Class X weredeclared best players of Bhopal teamamong boys and girls respectively.

Awards and Prizes Won by Students• Rohit Tembe XI Arts got second

position and cash award of Rs 5000for his painting from South CentralZone Cultural Center, Nagpur.

• Nitin Singh IX B got the first prize anda cash award of Rs1500 in interschool painting competition on poetryof Iqbal sponsored by Allama IqbalAdabi Markaz, Sahitya Academy M.P.Sanskriti Parishad Bhopal.

• Subham Jain VII B got the first prize ininter school painting competition onWorld Environment Day sponsored by'Paryavaran Neyojan Evam SamanwayaSangathan.

• Rahul Dhote IX B, Rashmi SawnerIX A and Seema Chauhan VI B got


first prizes in All India Camel ColourContest among different age groupcontestants.

• Imran Khan XII Science presented hismodel named Mission Mars at theNational Science Exhibition 2005held at Raipur (Chhattisgarh).

• 19 students are members of Eco Clubactivities under Rashtriya Harit KorYojana.

• 9 students from Class VI to XIIparticipated in the best out of thewaste model making contestsponsored by Lake ConservationAuthority M. P.

• DMS students visited SOS VillageBhopal. They voluntarily contributedRs. 21000 for the SOS children.Students participated in theseactivities and got awards.

• Hindi Fortnight was organised in theschool w.e.f. 14-28 November 2005.During this period various inter housecompetitions were organised.

• National Communal Harmony Daywas observed in the school on 25November 2005.

Major Achievements by Teachers

• Dr. Smt. Sushma Shrivastava PGT(Fine Arts), got Best Art Teacher'sAward from Kala Bharti Child ArtDevelopment Institute Pune,Maharashtra. She participated in M.P.Board of Secondary Education ArtsReview Committee Meeting. She alsoattended M.P. State Art Exhibition

Results of Board Examination, 2005

Class No. of Students No. of Students PassAppeared Passed Percentage

X 52 51 98%XII - Science 31 29 94%XII - Commerce 18 16 89%XII - Humanities 07 07 100%

2005 at National Kala Mela Indorefrom 6-10 October 2005.

• Shri R.M. Madhwal, PGT, English,participated in 40 days trainingprogramme at NCERT Delhi w.e.f. 6June 2005 to 15 July 2005 on PeaceEducation.

• Shri S.M. Hasan, PGT, Urdu,participated as a resource person inIn-service programme for Urduteachers conducted by SCERT M.P.Bhopal. At the national level, heparticipated in four workshops for thepreparation of new Urdu textbooksconducted by NCERT.

• Shri M.S. Shah, PGT, PoliticalScience, participated in reviewworkshop of Social Science book ofClass VII at NCERT in September 2005.

• Shri R.K. Pandey, TGT, (Maths),participated in four days workshop atNCERT for the preparation of Class IXtextbook in Mathematics.

• Shri Radha Rani Chauhan, TGT,Hindi, published her collection ofpoems titled "Abhas" on 27 February2005 and she was honoured for thisbook in All India Women Poet'sConference at Raipur. She alsoattended a workshop at NCERTNew Delhi in April 2005 to review theHindi textbook of Class VIII.

• Smt. Asha Sinha, TGT, English,attended a three-day workshop atSCERT Bhopal which aimed atdeveloping strategies for improvingHealth and Hygiene Education in theschool curriculum.


Research

Guiding Research

The Institute is a recognised centre ofeducational research for undertakingdoctoral level research. A number ofresearch scholars are working for theirPh.D. degree under the guidance of theInstitute faculty in areas such as scienceand mathematics education, languageteaching and learning, impact of nationaleducational schemes and projects,educational development of thedisadvantaged population groups,women's education, education of thedisabled, correlates of educationalachievements, etc.

Research Projects

• Status Study of Science Education inRural Secondary Schools of KhurdaDistrict of Orissa

• Relative Effectiveness of Pre-serviceSecondary Teacher TrainingProgramme.

Development

• Training Materials for TeacherEducators on Integration of Values withTeaching Science & Technology at theUpper Primary and Secondary Levels

• Low-cost Science Kit for TeachingScience in Rural Schools

• Training Package for Teaching ofHard Spots in the learning of SocialSciences at the Secondary Level

Regional Institute of Education,Bhubaneswar

Students of RIE Bhubaneswar participating in working withcommunity programme at Jagatsingpur, Orissa


• Visual Model on Organisation ofTeaching Practice in Simulated andReal Classroom Situations

• Training Package for Teaching ofEnglish at Primary Level.


• Content-cum-Pedagogy EnrichmentProgramme in Oriya for Key ResourcePersons from Tribal SecondarySchools

• Content-cum-Pedagogy EnrichmentProgrammes for Key ResourcePersons in Teaching of Mathematics,Science and Technology, Geography,Social Science and English at theSecondary Level

• Training on Research Design andTools for the Study of Dropout of Girlsat the Elementary Level in Orissa

• Content-cum-Pedagogy EnrichmentProgramme in Biology for PGTs ofAndaman & Nicobar Islands

• Training of Elementary TeacherEducators of Andaman & NikobarIslands in Physical Education

• Orientation of Teacher Educators ofBihar on Educational Technology atthe Elementary and Secondary Levels

• Training Teacher Educators fromDIET and SCERT on ClassroomManagement & Parental Participationin the Education of Children withSpecial Needs.

SSA Programmes

A regional level sharing meeting onquality of elementary education wasorganised during 27-28 March 2006. Theinnovative classroom practices adoptedby the participants in their respectivestates to improve the quality ofelementary education were discussed.State functionaries, nominees of MHRDand NGOs working for SSA participatedin the programme. Database ofElementary Education and Teacher

Educators in the Eastern region has beendeveloped and maintained by theInstitute.

Capacity Building of StateFunctionaries in EnvironmentalEducation and Disaster Managementand Mitigation (DMM) : A trainingprogramme on Environmental Educationand Disaster Management and Mitigation(DMM) was organised from 20 to 24March 2006. A large number ofeducational functionaries includingteacher educators from SCERTs/ DIETs/State Boards of Education/KVs/JNVsparticipated in the programme.

Refresher Course : The Instituteorganised a 21-day refresher course inEducation from 10 January 2006 forLecturers and Sr. Lecturers on a requestfrom the Academic Staff College, UtkalUniversity. This programme was fullyfunded by the Academic Staff College,Utkal University.

Collaboration with States : TheInstitute coordinated and evaluated thescheme of improvement of scienceeducation at the regional level. TheInstitute also conducted trainingworkshops for teacher educators andprovided academic support in theproduction of resource materials and inthe monitoring of the NPEP and findingits impact.

Internship : The Pre-internshipConference for B.Sc.B.Ed. Part IV studentswas held during 15-16 December 2005.Teachers and Heads of ten cooperatingschools from Bhubaneswar were briefedabout their roles and duties during theInternship programme. Apart from this,there were panel discussions onOur Approach to Lesson Planning, andStudent Teaching Profile andDemonstration Lessons in variousmethod subjects. The schools selectedfrom Bhubaneswar included CentralSchools, privates schools and publicschools which follow the CBSE

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curriculum. The Internship-in-TeachingProgramme was held from 4 January to3 February 2006 during which thestudent teachers were exposed to schoolbased experiences including classroomteaching, managing arrangement classes,library and laboratory and organisingco-curricular and extra-curricular activities.

Students of B.Ed. Part II, both Artsand Science were deputed to six schoolsat Bhawanipatna and Chaibasa in twogroups. There were 49 students placedat Bhawanipatna, Orissa where threeschools viz, Kendriya Vidyalaya,Bhawanipatna, Government High School,Pastikuda and Panchayat High School,Medinipur representing an urban school,a tribal school and a rural schoolrespectively had been taken for thepurpose of multicultural placementtraining. Each student experienced theteaching-learning environment, whichvaried over three types of schools, bytaking part in all kinds of school activitiesby spending 4 to 5 days in each categoryof schools. Similarly 51 students wereplaced at Chaibasa, Jharkhand. Theschools taken were Government Girl'sHigh Schools representing a rural school,S.P.G.Mission High School representinga tribal school and S.J.D.A.V. PublicSchool representing an urban school.

Two months Internship-in-TeachingProgramme for B.Ed. Part II students washeld in two centres viz. Sambalpur inOrissa and Ranchi in Jharkhand duringJuly - August 2005. The student teacherswere exposed to various school basedexperiences. Apart from teaching andconduct of co-curricular activities,student teachers carried out actionresearch and prepared records on SchoolProcesses and Teaching-learning aids. Onthe day of post-internship conference, anexhibition of teaching aids developed bystudents was organised in the morningsession and the afternoon session wasdevoted to presentation of group reportsby students and feedback from theInstitute supervisors.

Working with the Community : Workingwith the community is an integral part ofthe two-year B.Ed. course. The studentsof the two-year programme were taken tothe village Punanga in Jagatsinghpurdistrict of Orissa state where a seven-daycamp was organised during 5 to 11February 2006. In all 43 girls and 38boys participated in the week long camp.Besides the academic activities like surveyon health and hygiene of the communityand study of the status of primaryeducation in the locality, the studentsparticipated in various activities likeShramdan, Prabhat Pheri, communityinteractions and cultural programmes.The community people also participatedin all these activities. The field exposuregave a great opportunity to thepupil-teachers for learning by doingthemselves. On return from the camp, thestudent community organised a blooddonation camp in the Institute in whichas many as 180 students and facultymembers donated blood to the Red Cross.Besides others, the field work helped thepupil-teachers to link their classroomknowledge with outside experiences. It ishoped that the working with thecommunity programme would have longterm effect in the students' life both atpersonal and professional level.


Prof. K.Dorasami, Principal was amember of the National Expert Group forAssessment in Elementary Education andhas contributed for the development of theproposal for Achievement surveys,preparation of Tool design, SampleDesign, Statistical analysis andMonitoring of Mid-Term AssessmentSurvey for Class V. He has contributed tothe development of Research design andTools for Research study on Status ofImplementation of Competency-basedTeaching and Learning at Primary stageundertaken by the Department ofElementary Education, NCERT. He


participated in a consultation meeting onuniversalisation of access andimprovement in quality of secondaryeducation in KBK districts of Orissa. Hedelivered a key note address on Qualityof Research in Education in a UGCsponsored seminar organised by Firstdegree college, Chandikol, Orissa.

Prof. G.N. Prakash Srivastava co-authored a paper on "Yoga Va DhyanDwara Atmanubhuti- ShaikshikAvashayakta" published in BhartiyaAdhunik Shiksha (Jan. 2005), NCERT. Healso presented papers on "Working withCommunity for its mobilisation" at theRegional Seminar under SSA; "TeacherEducation for Value Inculcation" at theNational Conference on Professionalismorganised by the Allahabad Universityfrom 10-11 February 2006;"Restructuring Elementary TeacherEducation: Quality Perspectives" and atthe National Conference for LearningEnhancement in Elementary Schools heldat Bangalore. He guided research studyon 'The Present Status of Early ChildhoodEducation in Bhubaneswar'. Hecontributed in the development ofTeaching–Learning Material for NationalDEC-NCTE M.Ed. Programme and M.Ed.Special Education (SE-DE) programme.

Prof. P.K. Durani worked as the memberof the National Resource Group for SSAand a member of the Research Committeeof Life Sciences of Utkal University.

Prof. V.K. Sunwani was involved inTraining Programmes for Key ResourcePersons in English organised for the stateof Jharkhand at the Primary Level andSecondary levels; training programme forKey Resource Persons in English for thestate of Bihar at the Secondary level;training programme for Enrichment ofContent and Pedagogy of KRPs from tribalschools of Orissa. He published a paperon "The Place of Language in the SchoolCurriculum", MERS, New Delhi October,2005. He coordinated the Refresher

Course for PGTs in English organised forthe teachers of Jawahar NavaodayaVidyalayas held at the institute.

Prof. U. K. Nanda is one of the authorsof NCERT's Biology textbook for Class IX.He coordinated a programme "Content-cum-Pedagogy Enrichment Programmein Biology" for KRPs for A & N Islands. Healso contributed in other trainingprogrammes organised by the Institute.

Prof. S.C. Panda coordinated threein-service teacher training programmesfor teachers from Ekalavya ResidentialSchools. He worked as a resource personin the Refresher Course in Education ofthe Academic Staff College, UtkalUniversity.

Prof. J.S. Padhi coordinated theprogramme of development of coursecontent of Semester System of PostGraduate Diploma in Guidance andCounselling.

Dr. T.J. Vidyapati, Reader participatedin Student Centred Learning and ICTEnabled Teaching workshop organisedby the Great Foundation from 22 to 26August 2005 at Pune and presented apaper. He conducted a research study onthe 'Status of Science Education in RuralSecondary Schools in Khurda district ofOrissa'. He presented a research paperunder co-authorship titled "Teachersunderstanding of absolute configurationof Fisher's Projection" at the 93rd NationalScience Congress 2006 held inHyderabad. He contributed to thedevelopment of low cost science kit forteaching science in rural secondaryschools.

Dr. S.P. Patnaik, Reader published twopapers on "Development andStandardisation of Process Skills Test inBiology", Edutrack, July 2005 and "Effectof Co-operative Learning on developmentof process skills in Biology". Shedeveloped a CD on visual model onorganisation of teaching practice insimulated and real classroom situation.


Dr. B.N. Panda, Reader published threepapers entitled "Teacher Perception andStudent Experience of AcademicFreedom", Journal of Extension andResearch, Vol. VII, No.1 and 2, 2005 GRI,Dindigul, TN; "Micro Level Analysis ofthe Educational Problems of PlatformLiving and Street Moving Children :Strategies for their EducationalAttainment", New Frontiers in Education,Vol. XXXV, No. 2, 2005, New Delhi; and"ICT act as a Territory of Power for QualityEnhancement in Learning at ElementaryStage", in the book on ICT InitiativesQuality Improvement in ElementaryEducation, DEP-SSA, IGNOU, New Delhi,2006. He presented papers on GenderBias in School and Home: An Analysis, atthe National Seminar on Human RightsEducation, Lucknow University, 6-7December 2005, Lucknow; ProfessionalCommitment of Teachers: How to promoteit at the National Seminar on TeacherEducation, Arunachal University, 11-12December 2005, Itanagar.

Dr. P. C. Agrawal, Reader was a memberof Textbook development team of Physicsat Higher Secondary Stage (Class XI) andcontributed a chapter on 'Mechanics ofFluids.' He contributed a paper on "Useof Computer Technology in HelpingStudents learn Physics: Computersimulations" at the XX annualconvention of IAPT and nationalsymposium on Impact of IT on PhysicsEducation held at R.D. Women's College,Bhubaneswar from 21-23 October 2005.He attended an international conferenceon the Physics for World and Society heldat Physics Department, Universityof Rajasthan, Jaipur during 1-4 December2005 and presented two papers:(i) Physics teaching and learning usingcomputer technology and (ii) Phonondispersion in bulk metallic glass Zr48Nb8Cu12Fe18Be24. He presented aresearch paper entitled 'Theoretical study ofphonon frequencies in bulk metallic glass(Zr0.59Ti0.06Cu0.22Ni0.13) 85.7Al14.3.

Dr. Sandhya Sahoo, Reader was involvedin the preparation of textbook andsupplementary reader. She also acted asresource person in several trainingprogrammes organised by the institute.

Dr. P.C. Acharya, Reader was involvedin preparation of NCERT Class IX Historybook. He published one paper andpresented another paper at the NationalSeminar. He coordinated In-servicetraining programmes organised for SocialScience teachers by the institute.

Shri P.K. Mishra, Reader coordinated atraining programme on "Orientation ofTGTs in Social Sciences" for the teachersof West Bengal ; "Training of MasterTrainers of KVS in Political Science". Hecontributed in the programme on'Development of instructional Package onSelected Concepts in Social Sciences atthe Secondary Level."

Dr. P.K. Das, Reader contributed in aprogramme on "Development ofInstructional Package on Hard Spots inSocial Sciences at the Secondary Level".

Dr. Anoop Kumar, Reader acted asa member of the writers team ofHindi Textbook for Class XI of NCERT.He coordinated programmes on'Orientation of Hindi/Sanskrit/PhysicalEducation Teachers' from Eklavya ModelSchool organised from 26 to 31December 2005 and "Training of MasterTrainers of KVS, NVS and CBSE affiliatedSchools" on new Textbook for Class XI(Hindi) developed by NCERT. Hepresented a paper at the NationalSeminar of 'Sahitya Akedemi' onPremchand and Fakir Mohan Senapatiheld on 5-6 March 2006.

Dr. J. Mohapatra, Reader coordinatedtwo programmes "Content and PedagogyEnrichment Programme for KRPs inTeaching of Science and Technology at theSecondary Level;" and "Training onResource Design and Tools for the Studyof Dropout Girls at the Elementary level."


Dr. Dhanalaxmi Dash, Readercontributed as a resource person in theprogrammes of the institute. She is theco-author of a paper on "Education forSustainable Development: Teaching ofvalue for Conservation of Environmentthrough 3 R's" in Edutract. Shepublished a book on "Women,Environment and Health", Mangal DeepPublication, Jaipur, 2005.

Dr. O.N. Singh, Reader coordinated aprogramme "Content-cum-PedagogyEnrichment programme in Mathematics"for Secondary Teachers. He alsocontributed as a resource person intraining of mathematics teachers for theStates of Jharkhand and West Bengal.

Dr. D.G. Rao, Reader worked asresource person in the training of BiologyPGTs of NVS on NCERT's new textbooks.

Dr. Manasi Goswami, Reader conducteda regional level sharing meeting on qualityof elementary education under SSA. Shepresented a paper at the XXth AnnualConvention of the Indian Association ofPhysics Teachers held at R.D. Women'sCollege, Bhubaneswar. She publishedpapers on "Probing Understanding ofSHM", in School Science, 2005 and "HowDark is Dark Matter" in PhysicsEducation, 2005.

Dr. P.K. Pattanaik, Reader worked as ajoint coordinator of the programme"Training in Environmental Education atthe Primary and Secondary Level" whichwas organised for the States of Bihar andJharkhand. He worked as a resourceperson in training of PGTs of KVs fromAndaman and Nicobar Islands in the areaof Biology. He also contributed in othertraining programmes organised by theInstitute. He is guiding Ph.D. students.

Dr. H.K. Senapaty, Reader presentedpapers on "Elementary Education inRural India" at the InternationalConference in Improving Rural Educationorganised by Magnetic Educational

Forum, Chennai, during 10-12 October2005, and on "Creating a TechnologyBased Constructivist LearningEnvironment for the Learners ofInformation Age, Quality Concern inTeacher Education", 23-24 January2006, CASE, M.S. University, Baroda. Hispaper on "Constructivist Pedagogy" hasbeen published in the National Journalof Research in Education and Extension,Bharkatulla University, Bhopal, 2005.

Smt. Shatrupa Palit, Lecturer (SG) actedas a resource person in several trainingprogrammes organised by the institute.

Dr. P. Sahu, Lecturer completed a ERICResearch Project entitled "Pre-serviceSecondary Stage Teacher Education in theEmerging Educational Contexts:Perspectives, Practices and Prospects" inSeptember 2005. He coordinated the PACprogramme entitled "ClassroomManagement and Parents Participation inthe Education of Children with SpecialNeeds". He presented a paper on"Professionalism and CurriculumFramework for Teacher Education" at the39th National Conference organised bythe Indian Association of TeacherEducation, held at Allahabad from 6-11February 2006. He also presented apaper on "Intellectual Functioning at theInternational Conference held in 6-7January 2006.

Dr. Nirmala, Y., Lecturer acted a asresource person in various trainingprogrammes organised by the institute.She attended a refresher course at UGC-ASC, Osmania University, Hyderabadand a training programme on ICT-pedagogy integration organised by BAAC-UNESCO at Bangalore in August, 2005.

Dr. Asha K.V.D. Kamath, Lecturersecured 'Best Paper Award' for the papertitled "Utilisation of Rural HumanResource for Promotion of Indian Folk Artthrough co-curricular activities"presented at the International Conference


on Improving Rural Education held from10-12 October 2005 at Chennai.

Dr. B.K. Panda, Lecturer published fourpapers in Oriya and Hindi in distinguishedjournals, attended three national and tworegional seminars and presented papers.The attended two workshops includingMicrosoft-CIIL project at Mysore, andconducted a training programme forMaster trainers in Oriya for teachers fromtribal schools. He received 'Bhasa SahityaSamman' (award for literacy contribution)at the Hindi Bhawan, New Delhi on 10December 2005.

Ms. Sampa Das, Lecturer coordinateda training programme for Master Trainerson NCF (2005). She worked as a resourceperson in the training programme forMaster Trainers in Oriya for teachers fromtribal schools.

Dr. Ch.A. Ramulu, Lecturer publisheda paper on "Soybean Cell line selection forGene Amplification in EPSP synthasegene" J. Phytol. Res 18 (2):2005. Hepresented a paper on "Induced HerbicideResistance in Soybean cell suspensionculture" at the 93rd Indian ScienceCongress at Acharya N.G. RangaAgriculture University, Hyderabad heldfrom 3-7 January 2006. He co-ordinatedthe programme "Teaching of Science atSecondary Level for teachers of Orissa andJharkhand States." He contributed indevelopment of Laboratory and teachingmaterial in Plant Biotechnology for pre-service course. He acted as a resourceperson in other programmes organised bythe institute.

Dr. Rambabu Pareek, Lecturerpresented a paper under co-authorshipentitled "Teachers understanding ofabsolute configuration of Fisher'sProjection" at the 93rd National ScienceCongress held at Hyderabad during 3-7January 2006. He presented anotherpaper on "Study of Pre-service and In-service Teachers Understanding ofElectro-Chemical Cells" at the same

Science Congress. He also presented apaper on "Characterisation of Diosyprinusing 3D NMR Techniques" at theInternational Conference and BotanicalExpo held at Rajasthan University,Jaipur from 25-27 March 2006.

Dr. B.K. Parida contributed in a Sciencetextbook for Class X of the Board ofSecondary Education, Orissa. Hecontributed in a trainting programme on"Teaching of Science and Technology forTeacher Educators at the SecondaryLevel" organised for the States of Orissaand Jharkhand. He worked as academicsecretary for the 'National Symposium onImpact of IT on Physics Education'sponsored by IAPT, UGC and Institute ofPhysics, Bhubaneswar held at RDWCollege, Bhubaneswar from 21-23October 2005.

Ms. Balaiada R. Dkhar, Lecturerpresented a paper on "Role of MassMedia in Training Rural School Teacherstrough Distance Mode" at theInternational Conference on ImprovingRural Education held in Tamil Nadu from10-12 October 2006.

Dr. K.A.S.S.V.K. Rao, Lecturercontributed in Class IX Mathematicstextbook of NCERT as a Writing TeamMember. He worked as a resource personfor Training the Teachers of Army GoodWill Schools in Kargil. He was a memberof National Focus Group for teaching ofthe Mathematics and also a member ofNational Consultation Committee forDeveloping the Guidelines for preparationof teaching manual.

Dr. L.K. Bhopa, Lecturer coordinated atraining workshop for MathematicsEducators of Bihar, Orissa andJharkhand. He contributed in Class Itextbook of NCERT as a member of thewriting team. He developed someinnovative experiments for Mathematicspracticals at +2 level. He worked as aresource person in Content-cum-Pedagogy enrichment programme in


Mathematics at the Secondary level for theteachers of Andaman & Nicobar.

Shri R.R. Koireng, Lecturer presentedtwo papers as co-author; one on "Studyof the surface modified indium tin oxidethin film using X-Ray photoelectronspectroscopy (XPS)" and the other on"Phonon Dispassion in Bulk MetallicGlass Zr 48 Nig Cu 12 Fe8 Be 24" in theInternational Conference on Physics onthe occasion of celebration of world yearof Physics-2005.

Shri S.G. Rao, Lecturer conducted twoTraining Programmes in the area ofPhysical Education : one for theElementary Teacher Educators of WestBengal and the other for teachers ofAndaman & Nicobar Islands.

DEMONSTRATION MULTIPURPOSESCHOOL, BHUBANESWAR

Major Achievements

Scholarships : Three students, namelyMs. Anita Kar, Abhisek Paul and SmrutiRanjan Behera received NTS scholarshipfrom NCERT for the year 2005.

Awards and Prizes Won by Students

• Master Shakti Prasad Badajena,Sidharth Panda and Ms.ChitrangadaPradhan of Class VIII secured 10th,23rd and 30th rank respectively in theState level Regional MathematicalOlympiad.

• Master Amar Aswini Mohapatra ofClass III, Ms. Bidya Mishra ofClass IV, Sarthak Mohapatra ofClass V, Arindam Pradhan ofClass VIII and Arunabha Das ofClass XII received Gold Medal in the 5thNational Cyker Olympiad conducted byScience Olympiad Foundation.

• Master Pratik Ku. Das of Class IX wasawarded the First prize in Englishessay competition by the Divine LifeSociety . He also secured Firstposition in English debate and Second

position in English essay on theoccasion of National Science Dayorganised by the Department ofBiotechnology, Utkal University.

• Ms. Swarnima Subhadarshini ofClass VIII received the First prize indrawing competition organised bySBI, Bhubaneswar. She was alsoawarded the First prize in the artcompetition organised by All IndiaNewspaper Editors Council, Orissa.

• Ms. Sheetal Mishra of Class VI wasawarded the First prize in G.K.,Second prize in English essay andSecond prize in Odissi Dancecompetition in the National YouthFestival, 2006. She also took part in"Nanhi Pari-2006" contest and waschosen as "Miss Whizkid - 2006."

• Master Shakti Prasad Badajena ofClass VIII secured second rank inOrissa State Talent Scholarshipexamination 2005 and for that,he received State Best StudentScholarship from a NGO.

• Master Sabyasachi Swain wasawarded the First prize in Quiz byAcharya Harihar SanskrutikaParishad, Bahubaneswar. He was alsoawarded the First prize in EnglishEssay Competition organised by theDepartment of Biotechnology, UtkalUniversity.

• Master Santosh Kumar Sahoo ofClass VIII was awarded Second prizein State level painting competitionorganised by Indian Oil, H.P. andBharat Petroleum on the occasion ofOil and Gas Conservation Week, 2006.

Achievement in Sports andCocurricular Activities : 35 studentsof DMS, Bhubaneswar participated inInter Demonstration Schools Meet 2005,held at RIE, Ajmer from 26-29 December2005. DMS Bhubaneswar was awardedoverall champion shield as they were thechampions in athletics, drawing andpainting and English extempore and


runners-up in literary activities at theInter Demonstration School Meet (INDEM)held at RIE, Ajmer from 26-29December 2005.

Major Achievements by Teachers

• Dr. R.D. Roy, PGT (Bengali) andDr.M.C.Samal (Guidance andCounselling) attended a six-weekcourse on Peace Educationorganised by NCERT from 4 June to17 July 2005.

• Dr. Anjali Tripathy, PGT Geographywas awarded for her achievements inliterature and poetry. She attended aseminar on 'ASP Net Schools' organisedas a part of UNESCO project.

• Smt. Padmaja Pradhan, PGT Hindi,Smt. Sabita Patnaik, PGT inEconomics, and Smt J. Ghosh, PRT

attended Book Review Workshops inNCERT as per the new CurriculumFramework.

• Shri C. Radhakrishna, PGT inEnglish attended a National Seminaron "Twentieth Century CanonicalEnglish Literature" and "InterrogatingPost Modernism, Post Colonialism".Heattended workshops on "ResearchMethodology" and "Key Concepts ofPost Colonial Studies."

• Dr. Susanti Mishra, TGT in Englishreceived citation for heraccomplishment in creative writingorganised by Orissa Sikhya VikashParishad.

• Shri B. Bhoi, TGT in PhysicalEducation, participated as a resourceperson for imparting training to keyresource persons of DIET, West Bengal.

Results of CBSE Examination, 2005

Sl. No. Class No. of Students No. of Students PassAppeared Passed Percentage

1. X 106 98 92.42. XII Science 34 31 91

Commerce 06 06 100Humanities 06 06 100

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Research

Guiding ResearchThe Institute is a recognised Centre forundertaking doctoral research ineducation. Several research scholars areworking for their Ph.D. in the Instituteunder the guidance of the faculty. Eightcandidates have also registered for Ph.D.in Education during the year.

ERIC Projects

• Effectiveness of the Value BasedEducational Practices in SriSathya Sai Institute of HigherLearning under PromotingResearch and Innovations inValue Education : The Project hasbeen completed and the report isunder preparation.

• Relevance of Upanishads to ValueEducation under National ValueEducation Cell. The project hasbeen initiated : The Vedic literaturefrom several sources is being analysedfor essential values.

• An Investigation into the problemsassociated with the literacy ofDenotified children in thesettlement schools of AndhraPradesh : Short Term ResearchProjects.

• A Study of relation between Socio-Cultural problems of theCommunity and EnvironmentalStudies I, III, IV and V StandardTextbooks of NCERT.

• Identification and Documentationof the Culture Specific Pedagoiespractised in the Multi-grade

Learning Centres in the TribalAreas of Wyanad District inKerala.

• Development of DemonstrationLenses and Prisms for InternshipSchools.

• A Case Study of developmentalbiology of the mulberry silkworm,Bombyx mori to develop e-mediaand materials (including CD), togenerate awareness regardingprotection and conservation ofsilkworm and mulberry plant.

PAC Research Projects

• A Comparative Study of theSchool Curriculum of Kerala withthose of other southern states :Tools for data collection wereprepared. The data has been collected.

• An explorative study of evaluationreforms at School level in theSouthern states and UnionTerritory of Pondicherry : Theresearch was carried out in 10 districtsof the four southern states and theUnion Territory of Pondicherry. Afterfinalisation of the tools, trainingProgramme was conducted for theDIET faculty from the states understudy who were to assist in thecollection of the data. The sample takenwas 250 teachers and 500 students ofeach block. The data was collectedregarding the evaluation practicesbeing carried out by the teachers. Datawas also collected from district andblock level educational functionaries.The report has been prepared.

• Development of Research Designand Tools for survey of learningachievement of students at the

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terminal stage of elementaryeducation : A set of model toolsavailable in DEME, NCERT werescreened and suitably adapted in athree-day workshop. Achievementtests in the subjects of Tamil, English,Mathematics, Science and SocialScience for Class VIII were developed.The tools were tried out in the selectedrural and urban schools of TamilNadu. A three-day workshop wasorganised to develop the researchdesign and also to finalise the abovetools.

• Development of Research Designfor study of causes for lowachievement of students in theX standard Examination ofKarnataka : Meeting with researchersfor identifying the causes for lowachievement of students in the Xstandard examination of Karnatakawas held on 5-6 December 2005. Thesecond activity of the discussionmeeting with the teachers of lowachievement schools for identifyingthe probable causes was held in 12-13 January 2006.

Development

Development of 'Sample MultimediaPresentation' to teach topics inMathematics and Science at theSecondary level : A five-day workshopfor the development of sample Multimediapresentation to teach topics inMathematics and Science at thesecondary level was held at the Institutefrom 19-24 December 2005.

Development of Handbooks/Teachers'Manual in Physics, Chemistry andMaths at Higher-secondary stage : ANational Consultation Meet for evolvinggeneral guidelines for the preparation ofHandbooks was held at the Institute on16 and 17 February 2006. Based on theseguidelines, further work was carried out.

Development of Teachers' Handbookin EVS for Primary Grades : A nationalconsultation meet for evolving generalguidelines for the preparation ofhandbooks was held on 16 and 17February 2006. Based on theseguidelines, further work was carried out.

Review and Development of PGDGCSyllabus and Support Materials : Atwo-day meeting was organised atDEPFE, NCERT, New Delhi on 30-31January 2006 in which nine facultymembers involved in PGDGC programmeof the RIEs participated.

Development of Audio CDs on Socio-cultural Aspects of Andhra Pradesh :Workshop for identification of topics onsocio-cultural aspects and training ofteachers for preparation of audio scriptswas held from 22-26 September 2005.Twenty-one teachers participated in thisprogramme.

Development of Video Scripts on Socio-cultural Aspects of Andhra Pradesh :First workshop for identification of topicsfor training for writing video scripts wasconducted from 16-19 November 2005.Next workshop for developing the videoscripts on topics identified wasconducted at SIET, Hyderabad from20-27 February 2006. The scriptsdeveloped in earlier workshops wereedited and finalised. Sixteen video scriptswere finalised.


Training of Teacher Educators in theMethodology of Teaching English atthe Secondary Stage : The resourcematerial for training the TeacherEducators in the methodology of teachingEnglish at the secondary stage wasdeveloped during October to December2005. The training programme wasconducted from 2-6 January 2006.Seventeen teacher educators were trainedduring this programme.


Training Programme on Transactionof New Higher Secondary Curriculumin Mathematics for Higher SecondaryTeachers of Adi Dravidar Schools inTamil Nadu : Workshop for developmentof resource materials was conducted from17-24 October 2005. Using theseresource materials training programmewas conducted from 5-10 December2005. Twenty-three higher secondarymathematics teachers of Adi Dravidarschools of Tamil Nadu participated in thetraining progarmme.

Training Programme on Transactionof New Higher Secondary Curriculumin Chemistry : The training programmeon transaction of New Higher Secondarycurriculum in Chemistry for HigherSecondary teachers of Adi Dravidarschools was held from 2-7 January 2006.Twenty-eight teachers from these schoolsattended the training programme.

Training of KRPs on evaluation ofthe Secondary school textbooks ofTamil Nadu : A two-day workshop ondevelopment of tools for the evaluation oftextbooks was conducted on 2-3January 2006.

Post Graduate Diploma in Guidanceand Counselling : A one-year PostGraduate Diploma Course was conductedin the Institute in Guidance andCounselling for the benefit of teachers andothers. 33 students attended the course.

Training of Teacher Educators in theMethodology of teaching ScienceSubjects at the Secondary Stage –Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh :A training programme for five days wastaken up during 20-24 February 2006.Eleven participants attended theprogramme.

Training of Teacher Educators in theMethodology of teaching SocialSciences at the Secondary Stage –Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh :The training of teacher educators in the

methodology of teaching social sciencesat the secondary stage was conductedduring 6-10 March 2006. Ten teachereducators participated in the programme.

Training of Teacher Educators in theMethodology of teaching Mathematicsat the Secondary Stage : The aboveprogramme was conducted from19-23 December 2005. The participantswere also trained in computer-aidedlearning in Mathematics as well as inconducting in-service trainingprogrammes at the secondary level.

Short term Course in Guidance andCounselling for the Secondary andHigher Secondary Teachers : Thetraining programme was conducted during21 December 2005 to 10 January 2006.

Training Programme for PaperSetters on the latest trends, issuesand practices in Evaluation at theSecondary Level-Andhra Pradeshand Tamil Nadu : A five-day trainingprogramme for the teachers of AndhraPradesh was organised at SCERT,Hyderabad from 5-9 December 2005. 18participants from different districts of APattended this programme. A five-daytraining programme for Tamil Nadu wasorganised at DIET, Chennai from 19-23Decebmer 2005. 31 participants fromvarious districts of Tamil Naduparticipated in the programme. Twotraining packages for paper setters, oneeach for Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu,were developed and disseminated.

Training Programme for TeacherEducators of Andhra Pradesh ondevelopment of life skills amongsecondary school students : A trainingprogramme for teacher educators washeld from 26-31 December 2005. Thetraining package has been developed anddisseminated.

Training of DIET faculty of TamilNadu on Survey of the LearningStrategies employed by Children in

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the Primary Schools and theirimplications for Primary TeacherTraining : Orientation of the DIET facultyon teaching implications of the learningstyles and designing an in-service teachereducation programme on learning stylesbased teaching was held from 21-28March 2006.

Training Programme on Transactionof New Higher Secondary Curriculumin Physics for Higher SecondaryTeachers of Adi Dravidar School inTamil Nadu : The training programmewas conducted during 5-10 December2005. Twenty-one teachers participatedin the programme. Enrichment materialcum training package was developed andhas been disseminated.

Training of DIET faculty on study ofthe Implementation of D.Ed.Programme in Karnataka : Consultativemeeting for planning and preparation ofthe programme was held during February2006. Training of DIET faculty ondesigning a study of the implementationof D.Ed. programme was held at from 31March to 2 April 2006.

Training of KRPs on Management ofEducation Projects at the Secondarystage : Preparation and planning of thematerials for the programme was held on12-13 January 2006. The training ofKRPs on management of educationprojects at the secondary stage was heldfrom 20-24 March 2006. Fifteen KRPsattended the programme.

Orientation Programme on AdolescenceEducation for Higher SecondaryTeachers of Kerala : Orientationprogramme in Adolescence Education forsecondary teachers of Kerala was heldfrom 3-7 October 2005. Twenty-eightparticipants from Kerala attended theprogramme.

Orientation programme for TeacherEducators on inclusive education forsensory handicapped children from

Kerala : Orientation of teacher educatorson inclusive education for sensoryhandicapped children of Kerala was heldfrom 6-10 March 2006. Fourteen teachereducators from Kerala participated in theprogramme.

Training on quality Institutions for theHeads of Secondary schools of TamilNadu through teleconferencing :Orientation of facilitators was held on 20February 2006 at Chennai. Two-daypanelists meeting was held on 21 and 22February 2006. Two-day training ofHeadmasters through teleconferencingwas held on 24 and 25 February 2006.A 3-day training programme was heldfrom 15-17 March 2006. A trainingpackage on Quality Institutions Trainingfor the Heads of Secondary Schools hasbeen developed and has beendisseminated.

Collaboration with State and otherAgencies

The Institute has extended extensivesupport in the development of trainingpackages for teachers, tryout of thesepackages and also in training of keypersonnel in the southern states. TheInstitute has conducted five programmesin collaboration with the Department ofVocational Education, Government ofKerala, Indian School Muscat, APSWREISociety, DST, Government of India. TheInstitute is extending academic supportto the Joint Project of the NationalInstitute of Advanced Studies (NIAS),Bangalore and the Government ofKarnataka for improving the quality ofprimary education in the District ofChamarajanagar under the title"Vidyankura."

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)

SSA Cell is currently contemplating onundertaking certain studies based ondifferent facts and figures that can beprocured from different States and UTs.


As a partner of the Monitoring Team forKarnataka, the district reports of 9districts and the supervision reports of 2visits have been documented and sent toMHRD. The members of the team alsoattended meetings, review meetings in theregion as well as at the national level.

Internship Programme

The workshop on Development ofStrategies for Providing School-basedExperiences and Supervision of PracticeTeaching for Cooperating Teachers of B.Ed.and B.Sc.Ed. internship programme wasconducted at the institute from 27 Juneto 1 July 2005 involving 59 secondaryschool teachers from cooperating schoolsfrom Rajamundry, Davanagere,Mavelikkara and Tiruchira pally of thesouthern states. The workshop helpedcooperating teachers and headmasters tounderstand various aspects of internshipin the teaching programme of RIEM. Thelesson plan format, evaluation profile andthe supervision of lessons by student-teachers were thoroughly discussed anddoubts were cleared.

Working with the Community

The objectives of the programme were toestablish linkage between school andcommunity and employ suitable ways tostrengthen community life with school lifeand school work. A series of activitieswere planned and executed over a periodof four months to achieve this objective.Some of the activities were :

• Survey of community resources forthe schools

• Awareness about school communitylinkage through student marcheswith banners and placards aroundthe community

• Distribution of pamphlets regardingthe items they could give away in thecommunity

• Survey of the needs of the communityschools

• Preparation of teaching-learningmaterials for the schools

• Setting up activity corners withmodels prepared by studentsfor different subjects : English,Mathematics, Science, Social Scienceand Co-curricular activities

• Display and handing over of allmaterials in the two schools adoptedfor the programme.

National Population EducationProject (NPEP)

An orientation programme on AdolescenceEducation for higher secondary teachersof Kerala state was carried out during 3-7October 2005. The programme wasorganised in order to create an awarenessand provide knowledge to highersecondary teachers of Kerala on the needand importance of adolescence education.The programme objective was to developan understanding of the psychological,sociological and interpersonal issuesrelated to the adolescence growth anddevelopment, and to equip the teacherswith necessary skills to educate thestudents on the relevant aspects of growthand development. Around 24 teachersfrom Kerala state participated in theprogramme.

International collaboration

The Institute organised a 7-day inservicetraining programme for contentenrichment for +2 teachers of Physics andChemistry from Indian School, Muscatfrom 10-16 June 2005. Lectures onmodern methods of teaching was thehighlight of the programme. Teacherswere empowered to use new methods ofteaching science with special emphasis onintegrating ICT in teaching.

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Visitors from Abroad

• Dr Abdul Mushin Mohammed,Deputy Minister of Education,Maldives and Mr Abdullah Ismail,Principal of Kalfaanu School(Primary), Male, Maldives visited theInstitute on 14 February 2006 andgot acquainted with the functioningof RIE, Mysore.

• Dr Johan Hendrikz, Manager, DistanceEducation, Faculty of Education,University of Pretoria of South Africavisited the Institute on 15 February2006 and got acquainted with thefunctioning of the Institute.

Participation at the InternationalProgrammes

• A three-day expert Planning Meetingco-organised by the UNESCO RegionalBureau for Education in Bangkok andthe Asia Pacific Centre of Education forInternational Understanding (APCEIU)was held from 17-19 May 2005 atBangkok, Thailand. The meeting wasattended by one of the faculty membersof RIEM. The meeting was aimed atdeveloping training materials andmethodologies for the training oftrainers workshop to be held inSeptember 2005. The trainingmaterials were related to themes andissues of Education for InternationalUnderstanding (EIU) which includedglobalisation and social justice,cultural diversity and interculturalunderstanding, peace and equity,sustainable development and humanrights with dignity in the Asia Pacific.

• One faculty member from RIEMrepresented India as a resourceperson in 5 Asia Pacific TeacherTrainers Workshop for the delegatesfrom 121 countries organised jointlyby UNESCO, Bangkok and APCEIUSouth Korea held at YMCA in ChiangMai, Bangkok from 12-29 September2005. The themes discussed in the

workshop were : Cultural Diversityand Intra Cultural Understanding,Sustainable Development, Peaceand Equity, Human Rights andGlobalisation and Social Justice.

Campus Interview

Around 50 schools from southern statesand a few from northern statescounducted campus interviews andalmost all final year students of B.Sc.Ed.B.Ed. and M.Ed. who have appeared forthe interviews have already been offeredteaching posts in these schools.


Four students won prizes in EnglishDebate competition conducted by ICFAIUniversity at the National College.Shafeeq and Anees, M.Ed. students wonthe coveted trophy for the best PG teamand Jayanthy and Raju of B.Sc.Ed. wonthe trophy for best UG Team. Shafeeqwon the I prize in the PG Level. He alsowon the first prize in an English DebateCompetition conducted by theMaharani's College. Raju won the IIprize in English debate competitionconducted at SDM Institute ofManagement Studies, Mysore.

Major Contribution of the Faculty

Prof. G. Ravindra, Principal wasinvolved in planning, coordination andmonitoring of all the programmes andactivities of the institute. He worked as amember of the National SteeringCommittee and Member Secretary ofNational Focus Group "Systemic Reformfor Curriculum Change." He wascoordinator of the National GroupDiscussion on Signed Discrete Structuresand their Applications, DST, 15-24November 2005. He presented a paper on"Issues Related to Training ofMathematics Teachers" at the NationalConference on Mathematics Education,19-22 December 2005.


Prof. G.T. Bhandage coordinated theNational Consultation Meeting for theDevelopment of General Guidelines for thePreparation of Teachers' Manuals in theschool subjects' and a planningworkshop for Teachers' Manual inChemistry for XI and XII. He participatedin a 2-day National Level ConsultationMeet on the Model Curriculum for B.Ed.courses organised by NCTE. Heparticipated in the Workshop onDevelopment of Textbooks of Chemistryfor Class XI, held at NCERT. He alsoparticipated in the 3-day OrientationProgramme for the Master Trainers fromKVS held at the Institute and a one-dayWorkshop on Innovative Developments inTeaching Chemistry held at theDepartment of Studies in Chemistry,University of Mysore, Manasagangotri,Mysore.

Prof. P.R. Lalitha coordinated a 10-dayTraining of PGTs of Andhra PradeshSocial Welfare Board Society Schools inPhysics. She was also a coordinator forthe 10-day Training Programme ofPhysics PGTs of Muscat. She worked asa resource person for various teachertraining programmes. She also worked asresource person for the NationalConsultative meet on development ofTeacher's Manual for new textbooks, andfor the Pre-internship Conference held atRIE, Mysore. She presented two papersentitled, "Teaching of Physics : What docognitive studies have to offer?" and"Constructing Knowledge from PhysicsLaboratory Activities", at the InternationalConference in Physics Education: WorldView on Physics Education held at NewDelhi, 22-26 August 2005. She alsopresented papers titled 'Quiz - AnInnovative method to transform physicsteaching in classrooms" at the NationalTeachers Science Conference held at RIEMysore, 27-29 January 2006 and"Equity for Women in Science andTechnology. How do we achieve this?"Proceedings of the National Seminar on

Women in Science and Technology: Issueand Prospects, WISTIP- 2005.

Prof. Vasant D. Bhat worked on researchprojects titled " A Study of the HearingStyles of Children in Upper Primaryclasses in Tamil Nadu" and "A Study ofthe Implementation of D.Ed. Programmein Karnataka". He coordinated a trainingprogrammes on "Learning Styles for DIETStaff of Tamil Nadu" and "Designing astudy on implementation of D.Edprogramme for DIET faculty of Karnataka."

Prof. S. Ramaa was actively involved inthe short term cource on Guidance andCounselling for secondary and seniorsecondary school teachers of the southernregion. She is guiding Ph. D. scholars.Two of her Ph. D. students are finalisingtheir theses and will be submitting theseshortly. She worked as a resource personfor training of KVS and NVS teachers onNCERT's new textbooks.

Prof. S. Srinivasa Raghavan wasinvolved in several in-service programmesof the Institute, both as a ResourcePerson and as a Coordinator. As a memberin the Core Group on EVS in schooleducation, he contributed in the syllabusdevelopment at the higher secondarylevel and also in monitoring theimplementation of EVS in schools. Heattended an International Conference inPhysics Education, "Learning Physicsthrough case study method" held at NewDelhi in 2005. He also attended a U.G.C.sponsored National Seminar on"Integrating ICT with the teachinglearning process" held at Ottapalam(Kerala) in 2006. He published papers on"PBL - A strategy for letter learning"in Staff and Educational DevelopmentInternational 9 87 (2005); and"Understanding Radioactive Activity" inSchool Science XLIII, 78 (2005).

Prof. B.S. Upadhyaya coordinatedtraining programme on Transaction ofNew Higher Secondary Curriculum in

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Mathematics for Higher SecondaryTeachers of Adi-Dravidar Schools of TamilNadu. He published a paper on "Learningof Mathematics and Structured PracticalActivities in Cooperative Settings at thePrimary Stage" in Perspectives inEducation, 2005, Vol.21, No.3 and"Nurturing Talent in Mathematics" inEdutracks, April 2005, Vol.4, No.8.

Prof. B.S.P. Raju acted as a resourceperson in training programmes for theJunior Lecturers in Mathematics ofAPSWREIS (AP Social Welfare ResidentialEducation Institute Society), Hyderabadand for teachers of Jawahar NavodayaVidyalayas. He also acted as a resourceperson for 21 days refresher course forthe PGTs in Mathematics for NavodayaVidyalayas. He contributed in thedevelopment of mathematics textbook ofNCERT for Class IX.

Prof. Premlata Sharma is guiding sevenPh.D students. She organised a Trainingon Inclusive Education for TeacherEducators. She attended the NationalProgramme on Multicentric Research inEducation, Education for Rural Childrenorganised by NCERT, AIISH, CBR Network, Bangalore.

Prof. P. Veerappan coordinated thetraining programme, 'Quality Institutions:Training to Head Masters of SecondarySchools'. The programme was conductedthrough teleconferencing using EDUSATfacilities. A training manual was prepared.He also coordinated the Regional Seminaron NCF 2005 and the Regional SharingWorkshop for SSA Members.

Dr. M.N. Bapat, Reader completed aShort Term Research Project on"Enrichment Material at +2 stage inPhysics". He worked as the coordinatorfor the training programme on thetransaction of New Higher Secondarycurriculum in Physics for Adi DravidarSchool Teachers in Tamil Nadu. Hepresented a paper on "Prism and TotalInternal Reflection and nature of

Reflecting Surfaces" at the Indian PhysicsOlympiad training-cum-workshop forresource generation group at HBCSE,Mumbai held during September 2005. Healso presented a paper on Quiz atNational Teachers Science Congress heldat RIE, Mysore. Other publications to hiscredit are Improving teaching throughInnovation Practices at the ElementaryStage in the journal Action Research andInnovative Practices MHRD - IGNOU, NewDelhi p.56. "Some aspects of satellitemoving around the sun without falling inSchool Science p.81 September 2005". Hecontributed as a resource person in aworkshop for development of Physicstextbook for Class XI (Hindi version);Inservice Training for Sainik SchoolTeachers.

Dr. K.Z. Chisty, Reader publishedresearch paper entitled "A new Species ofthe Genus Sakia" in Current Science,Bangalore (in press).

Dr. A. Sukumar, Reader is working on aresearch project titled, "Worksheet basedapproach for teaching animal taxonomy."He coordinated a programme, Training ofTeacher Educators in the Methodology ofTeaching Science at secondary stage andworked as resource person for the trainingprogramme on content-cum-methodologyfor science teachers of Sainik School,Bijapur. He published a paper on "HumanNail as a Biomarker of Exposure toElement" in Reviews of EnvironmentalContamination and Toxicology, p.185. Hisarticle on "Reorienting School Children forparticipation in the Natural ResourceManagement." was published in Journalof Indian Education Volume XXXI (1)p.36-43.

Dr. R. Narayanan, Reader contributedas a resource person in the orientationprogrammes of teachers from IndianSchool, Muscut; Teachers of AndhraPradesh Social Welfare ResidentialEducational Institution (APSWREI) andDravidar Schools of Tamil Nadu.


Dr. N.N. Prahallada, Reader coordinateda training programme "Management ofEducational Projects at Primary andSecondary School Levels". He is the Editorof the Newsletter brought out by RIE,Mysore.

Dr. Prema Raghavan, Readercoordinated a Training Programme forKey Resource Persons in Teaching ofEnglish at the Secondary Level. Her papertitled "To Be or Not To Be : The Dilemmaof Language Education in India" has beenselected for presentation in Asia PacificEducational Research AssociationInternational Conference, to be held inHong Kong (November 2006). Shepublished papers on HandwritingErrors of Children with WritingDisabilities and Normal Children,Disabilities and Impairments : AnInterdisciplinary Research Journal.Vol.19 No.2, 2005 and Teaching Englishin Regional Medium Schools - An EclecticApproach : Vol.XXXV, No.2, 2006.

Dr. V.V. Anand, Reader is one of theauthors of a Class XII Biology textbook.He also wrote some modules for ainstructional material titled "Capacitybuilding of Madarsas - Teaching ofscience and technology at secondarylevel". He was involved in the planning anddevelopment of environmental educationtheme park in the Regional Institute ofEducation, Ajmer. He coordinated atraining on "Capacity building ofeducational functionaries of South IndianStates, SCER Ts, NVs, KVs inEnvironmental Education and DisasterManagement and Mitigation."

Dr. G.V. Gopal, Reader was the principalinvestigator for a short term project on"Development of workbook for Guidedprojects on Conservation and Biodiversityof fresh water lake biota of Mysore City".He developed a CD in Collaboration withAVRC, University of Mysore, on Audio-Visual material on "Ethano-botanicalScience and its importance." He

is guiding Ph.D. scholars. He attendedthe International Conference onEnvironmental Education forSustainable Future, held at Ahmedabad,18-20 December 2005. His publicationsinclude – "Advances in MedicinalPlants:Neem and Pharmacological andBiological Properties" pp.25 Vol.1.inAsian Medical Plants, Jodhpur 2005.

Dr. G.R. Prakash, Reader presented apaper on "Group Discussion methods ofteaching pedagogic analysis in physicalscience" at the National Teachers ScienceConference held at RIE, Mysore. Hecontributed as a resource person in thetraining programme on inservice trainingfor PGTs in chemistry, held at BijapurSainik School. He also contributed in thepreparation of working models inchemistry.

Dr. C.G. Venkatesha Murthy, Readerwas involved in projects on "Life SkillsEducation Training Package" and "ActionResearch : Trainers Handbook." Hecoordinated the training programme of LifeSkills for secondary teacher educators ofAndhra Pradesh. He worked as resourceperson in the training programme for DIETfaculty and BRPs of Karnataka on ActionResearch. He served as a panel presenteron 'Quality Issues in EducationalResearches' in the International Conferenceon Teacher Education in the context ofglobalisation. He also attended theConference at Annamalai University onPsychology in the Global Context. Hispaper on "Professional Development ofTeachers : What? Why? and How?" hasbeen published in the Journal of IndianEducation.

Dr. Manjula P. Rao, Reader completeda research project titled " Relevance ofUpanishads to Value Education". She alsoworked on a research project "Anexplorative study of evaluation reforms inthe southern states and Pondicherry".She conducted a training programme onevaluation for Defence Schools in

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Vishakhapatnam. She is developingmaterial on constructivist approach inclassroom. Her research article titled"Effect of concept mapping on studentsachievement in science" is publishedon line by Homi Bhaba Centre for ScienceEducation in their website. Two articlestitled, "Concept mapping in science" and"Investigatory approach in science" arepublished in the book "Constructivistlearning" published by NCERT in 2006.She is guiding students for doctoraldegree in education in the area ofconstructivism in science education, andin the area of evaluation.

Dr. G. Anwar, Reader coordinated aTraining of Paper setters of AndhraPradesh and Tamil Nadu. He is guidingsix Ph.D students out of which two havealready submitted their theses to theUniversity of Mysore.

Dr. N.R. Nagaraja Rao, Senior Lecturercontributed as a resource person inseveral programmes organised by theinstitute. His paper on "ImprovingTeaching through Innovative Practices atElementary Stage" has been published inIGNOU document 'Action Research andInnovative Practices.'

Shri B.C.Basti, Senior Lecturercoordinated training of Maths PGTs oncontent cum methodology. He alsoworked as a resource person in theContent Enrichment Programme of NVSPGTs in Maths.

Dr. Geetha G Nair, Senior Lecturerorganised a 2-day workshop on socio-cultural problems and environmentalstudies. He published a paper in co-authorship on Significance of Lab skillsin Science Education in School Science,March 2005.

Dr. S.P. Kulkarni, Senior Lecturer actedas resource person in the programmes"Development of Simple Multi-mediapresentations to teach topics inMathematics and Science at Secondary

level", "Capacity building of educationalfunctionaries of South India inEnvironmental Education, DisasterManagement and Mitigation" and"Development of Audio-Visual materialsfor EDUSAT programmes in Scienceand Technology at the secondary level."He published two articles titled-"Ethnomedical cure for common skindiseases, Role of Bio-technology inMedicinal and Aromatic Plants Vol. VIIIpp-226-260 (2005), Book: and"Ethnobotanical Studies in theConservation of Plant Biodiversity forSustainable Development in AndhraPradesh in Ethnomedicine and HumanWelfare Vol. IV pp-248-263 (2005).

Dr. G. Viswanathappa, Senior Lectureris guiding Ph. D. students. Hecontributed in the Training Programmeon "Management of educational projectsfor the DIET faculty of Karnataka" and"Utilisation of SPSS Software" for thestaff of RIE, Mysore. He was associatedwith the training package on Informationand Communication Technology (ICT).He is co-author of a book entitled"Techniques and Strategies of Teachingat Secondary level" published byNeelkamal Publishers Pvt. Limited,Hyderabad. He presented a paper entitled"Models of Teaching in HigherEducation" at the national conference onQuality Parameters of NAAC and itsrelevance held at PVKN GovernmentCollege, Chitoor. His publicationsinclude "Scenario of English MediumSchools in Kerala" in the Journal ofInternational Educator, Vol.17 No.1-June 2005; "Attitude towards Teachingand Teaching Competence" inEdutracks, Vol.4, No.12, August 2005;"Development of Criterion ReferencedTest" in Journal of Pedagogical Sciences,Vol.V No.2; "Influence of ParentalOccupation on Learner's Achievement inEnglish Medium Primary Schools ofKerala" in the Journal of Guidance andResearch Vol.23 No.1 March 2006.


Shri Tamil Selvan, Lecturer in additionto his other responsibilities at theinstitute is working for his Ph. D.

Ramprakash Prajapati, Lecturerparticipated as resource person in atraining programme on "Transaction ofNew Higher Secondary curriculum inChemistry for Higher Secondary Teachersof Dravidar Schools in Tamil Nadu."

Dr. M.S. Srimathi, Lecturer was involvedin the training programmes on"Transaction of New Higher SecondaryCurriculum in Chemistry for highersecondary teachers of Adi-Dravidianschools in Tamil Nadu" and "InserviceTraining programme for the PGTs fromMuscut schools."

Dr. Anil Kumar K, Lecturer is workingon a Short Term Research Project"Identification and Documentation of theCulture Specific Pedagogies Practised inthe Multi Grade Learning Centers in theTribal Areas of Wayanad District inKerala." He is also working ondevelopment of a Research Design andTools for Learning Achievement Survey atthe Terminal Stage of ElementaryEducation (Tamil Nadu). He worked as aresource person for various trainingprogrammes of teachers organised by theinstitute.

Dr. Ramakanta Mohalik, Lecturerparticipated as resource person to trainpaper setters in different school subjectsof Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

Dr. Ramadas V. Lecturer delivered a talkon "Pluralistic Education" in the AnnualSeminar of University Teacher EducationCentre, Sultan Bathery, Wayanad, Kerala.

Dr. Swati Patra, Lecturer presented apaper entitled "Relationship betweenTeacher Effectiveness and EmotionalIntelligence" in the national seminar onSchool Effectiveness for QualityElementary Education organised by DEP,SSA, IGNOU, New Delhi, 28-29 March2006. She published a paper under co-

authorship entitled, "Relationshipbetween Reading Comprehension andMathematics Achievement of English andHindi Language Medium Schools" inPerspectives in Education, Vol.22(2)2006. Her paper on "Discipline and ChildRearing Practices" has been published inIndian Psychological Review, Vol.64(3),2005. She also published a paper on"Role of Medium of Instruction inChildren's Writing Skill" in Social ScienceInternational, Vol.21(2), 2005.

Dr. P.R. Harinath, Lecturer coordinateda programme 'Development of VideoScripts on Socio-Cultural aspects ofAndhra Pradesh'. He presented a paperin UGC National Seminar on TeluguSahityamu - Samajika Chaitanyamu inAndhra Loyala College, Vijayawada(AP), from 21-23 July 2005. He alsopresented papers on AnnamacharyulaSankeertanala Lo Aadhunika Pokadaluin UGC's National Level Seminar onTallapaka Annamacharya'; Presented apaper on Kutumba Kethala Lo Sthree"in UGC National Level Seminar in MVSGovernment Arts College, MahaboobNagar, on 24 June 2006. Hispublications include Kala PoornodayamLo Sri Venkateswara Varnana' publishedin 'Saptagiri', November 2005 andVeeresa Lingam Oka Visphulinsgam'accepted for publication in 'Vangmaji',PS Telugu University publication,Hyderabad.

Dr. Saraswathi, Lecturer is working ona project "Development of DescriptiveDictionary on Jaina TechnicalTerminologies based on old KannadaLiterature". She attended All IndiaScholars' Conference from 28 December2005 to 1 January 2006 and presenteda paper on "Monks and House holders inJaina Religion." Her publications include"Ahimse mattu Shanthi" (Non-violenceand Peace) published in MahamasthibhisekaCommemorial Magazine-November 2005;Bahubali Swagatha (Bahubali'smonologue), a creative write up published

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in "Hosatu", a monthly magnagize,Navakarnataka Publication, Bangalore(February 2006).

Dr. V. Prasad, Lecturer worked as aresource person in the researchprogramme "An Explorative Study ofEvaluation Reforms in Southern Statesand Pondicherry". He is a coordinator ofthe programme titled "Training of AshramSchool Teachers in Languages." Heparticipated in the OrientationProgramme for 'Resource SupportInitiative for Research with NCERT"conducted in RIE, Bhubaneswar from19-23 December 2005. He preparedfour Malayalam textbooks for +1, +2 levelfor the Board of Secondary Education,Government of Karnataka. He publishedan article named 'Kudiyattam andKathakali' in Samskara Kerala, CulturalDepartment Publication, Government ofKerala.

Dr. Sukhvinder, Lecturer is working ondevelopment of Teaching LearningMaterial for Teaching of Social Sciences.He coordinated the programme titled'Training of Teacher Educators inTeaching Methodology in Teaching ofSocial Sciences at Secondary Level forAndhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Heparticipated in Training of Trainersprogramme in Disaster Management andTrauma Counselling, organised byBangalore University and contributed intraining teachers of KVS, NVS and otherschools in disaster management.

Dr. Kalpana Venugopal, Lecturerworked on a research project titled"Effectiveness of the value basededucational practices of Sri Sathya SaiInstitute of Higher Learning." She alsoworked on a project "Development ofHandbook for Internship Diploma inTeacher Education for the state of TamilNadu. She coordinated the trainingprogrammes "Orientation for MasterTrainers on New Textbooks - SocialScience - IV Std. and "Training of School

Teachers of South India on Education forPeace". She published a research article"Early Detection and Remediation ofReading and Writing Difficulties in Pre-Schools" in the journal Disabilities andImpairments, Vol.12(1) 2005.

Dr. Malli Gandhi, Lecturer was involvedin the preparation of Audio CDs on theSocio-Cultural aspects of ST Groups ofAndhra Pradesh. He presented a paperon "Multilingual Education for TribalGroups" at the South Asia Conferenceorganised by UNICEF and UNESCO, CIIL,and NCERT.

DEMONSTRATION MULTIPURPOSESCHOOL, MYSORE

SC/ST Scholarships

Social Welfare Department, Governmentof Karnataka has given scholarshipto 56 students under SC and 19students under ST category from Class Ito Class X.


• Deepashri B, Prateek Maheshowri,Himavad R. Gopal, Monnapa C.S,Nikhil K.M. of Class XI have beenawarded NTSE scholarship byNCERT for the year 2005.

• Himavad R. Gopal of 11 Science hasbeen awarded the SIA YouthScholarships 2006 to study +2courses in one of the top sevenprestigious junior colleges inSingapore.

• Aproovanand of 12 Humanities wonthe 1 prize in poetry competition forschool children, 2004 conducted bythe Poetry Society of India incollaboration with the Department ofHuman Resource Development.

Achievements in Sports andcocurricular Activities• The junior cricket team of the school

won the runner-up shield in theDr. Subramanyam Memorial Cricket


Tournament organised by CFTRISchool, Mysore

• A team of 10 boys and girlsparticipated in the City Level RoadRace Competition organised by theChallengers Athletic Club, Mysore.Karthik Gaekwad of 9 won the Secondplace and the team won the overallchampionship for boys by winning11, 12, 13 and 15 positions. In thegirls' section, girls team championshipby winning 7, 8 and 11 position.

• Rohini Karnat of 10 has receivedscholarship from Sports Authority ofIndia for gymnastics. She has alsowon Second and Three prizes in Statelevel gymnastics.

• Vaishnavi of 7 participated in StateLevel School Games Competition inArtistic Gymnastics and won thethird position. She was selected torepresent Karnataka State in theNational School Games to be held inJanuary 2006.

• K.N. Madhu of 10 has won First prizein Vachana competition conducted byBEML. She also won the Third prizein Drawing & Painting Competitionconducted by BEML .

• D.S. Harsha of 10 participated in theInter-school Bhajan competition heldat Sri Ganapathi SachindanandaAshram, Mysore and also participatedin the interschool competition forSanskrit recitation held atManasarovar Pushkarini Vidyashram,Mysore and won participation prizes.

• Mahathi T. Bhargavapuri of 8 has wonthe scholarship for vocal musicinstituted by the Centre for CulturalResources and Training.

• Sreehari R. of 8 has won the Secondprize in the competition conducted bythe Shankaracharya Mutt at theShankaracharya Memorial Hall. Hehas also given mridanga concerts atChamundi Hills and at GnanaBharathi Hall.

• Akshaya Ramakrishna of 9 hassecured the Second rank in theCarnatic music vocal by scoring 91%in the music examination conductedby the Karnataka SecondaryEducation Board.

• Surakshit M.N. and PhalgunN. Upadhyay of 10 won the third prizein the quiz competition conducted byBangalore Press and Bharatiya VidyaBhavan in connection with 50year celebrations of "KarnatakaEkeekarana" conducted on 28August 2005.

Summer Science CampA seven-day Summer Science Camp wasorganised at the Institute from 9-15 May2005 for a group of 35 students of theclasses 6 and 7 of DMS and from selectedschools of Mysore city. The objectives ofthe camp were to help students developa scientific temper, see the relevance ofthe science they learn in school to theirday-to-day life and to provide hands onexperience on a variety of activities inscience. The highlights of the programmewere use of origami in the learning ofMathematics and Biology, environmentalawareness through street play, birdwatching, diseases of the eye and eyecare, preparation of low cost apparatusand learning science through toys.

KalasangamaA two-day Kalasangama - 2006, aCultural Festival was organised on 1-2March 2006 to promote aesthetic valuesand appreciation of multifaceted Indianart forms in which RIE students alongwith amateur and professional artistsjointly contributed in performances suchas solo classical dance, skit, dance,drama, classical songs and Yakshagana,Talaavadhya, Light Music etc.

Extension Lectures• The 42nd Foundation Day of the

Institute was celebrated on 1 August2005. Justice M.F. Saldanha (Retd)High Court Judge was the Chief

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Guest and he delivered SardarPanikkar Memorial Lecture on"Education for Social Development."

• Dr. R. Srinivasan, an eminentPhysicist and former DeputyDirector, IIT Madras delivered anextension lecture on "Einstein and hiscontributions to Physics" on 28February 2005. The programme wasarranged as a part of the NationalScience Day programme on theoccasion of Work Physics year 2005.

• International Year of Physics wasorganised at the Institute through a2-day exhibition in which 22secondary schools from Mysore cityparticipated. A lecture on Einstein'scontributions to Physics was arrangedon 4 November 2005.

• Shri M.S. Sathyu, Film Director inHindi and Kannada Languagesdelivered an Extension lecture on'Cinema and Culture' on 6 April 2005.

• Prof. Subramanian of Indian Instituteof Science, Bangalore delivered anextension lecture on 9 December 2005.

• Mr. M.S. Ananda Rao (Retd) Lecturerin Mathematics and ComputerScience, University of South PacifiicSuva, Fiji Islands delivered a lectureon 'Constructivist Theory' on 18-19August 2005.

• A Lecture-cum-Demonstration on"Manipuri Dance Ballet was presentedby Dr. Sruti Bhandopadhay fromRabindra Bharati University, Kolkataon 17 July 2005.

Results of CBSE Examination, 2005

Sl. No. Class No. of Students No. of Students PassAppeared Passed Percentage

1 X 66 56 852 XII Science 31 30 973 XII Humanities 09 09 1004 XII Commerce 10 09 90

Regional Institute of Education, Shillong

North-East Regional Institute ofEducation (NERIE) was set up atShillong in December 1995 with a viewto cater to the educational needs of all theN.E. States - Assam, Arunachal Pradesh,Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland,Tripura and Sikkim. It has a major rolein enhancing the quality of schooleducation in North - Eastern region byproviding training to teacher educators ofSCERTs, DIETs, SIEs of this region.


Development

Development of Life Sketches of GreatPersonalities of the North EasternRegion : Under this programme aworkshop was organised at Guwahati on19-22 December 2005. A referencematerial for primary school childrenreflecting the contributions made by greatpersonalities of North Eastern region isbeing developed.


The various programmes organised areas follows:

• Orientation of Head teachers/Principals of Meghalaya, Assam,Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim onInstitutional Planning andManagement at NERIE, Shillong from26th to 29th September 2005.

• Orientation of KRPs of North EasternStates on Inclusive Education atNERIE, Shillong from 18th to 21stOctober 2005.

• Orientation of KRPs of North EastStates on Research Methodology atNERIE, Shillong from 20.2.2006 to1.3.2006.

• Orientation on EffectiveCommunication Skills for the KRPs ofArunachal Pradesh at DIET, Roing,Arunachal Pradesh, from 7th to 10thFebraury 2006.

• Orientation of Head teachers/Teachers on Classroom TransactionStrategies (secondary stage) for tribalschools of Nagaland, ArunachalPradesh, Mizoram and Sikkim atNERIE Shillong from 14th to 17thJanuary 2006.

• Content-cum-Pedagogical Enrichmentof Educational Functionaries ofMadarsas in English & Social Sciencesat Guwahati, from 2nd to 5thJanuary 2006.

• Orientation of Competency-basedTeaching and Learning for the KRPsof NE States at NERIE, Shillong, from6th to 10th March 2006.

• Orientation of Work-OrientedEducation at Elementary Level for theKey functionaries of NE States atNERIE, Shillong from 27th to 30thMarch 2006.

• The Institute celebrated the WorldEnvironment Day on 4th and 5thJuly 2005.

Support and Collaboration

NERIE, Shillong provided necessarysupport and cooperation in theorganisation of the following programmesin the North Eastern region:

• "Regional Conference on the Status ofImplementation of Competency-based Teaching-Learning at theElementary Stage of North EasternStates" held at Shillong from 3-5August 2005.

• "Sensitisation Programme for Officersof SC/ST Corporations of North

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Eastern States on VocationalEducation" held at Shillong from 4-6October 2005.

• "Regional Conference of Directors ofSIEs/SCERTs" held at Shillong on26-27 October 2005.

• "Orientation of State Level KeyPersons in Guidance and Counsellingin the North East" held at Shillongfrom 5-7 December 2005.

• "Regional Level Meeting on Quality ofElementary Education under SSA"held at Guwahati on 22-23 February2005.

NTS Interview

The NTS interview was conducted at theinstitute for the candidates of the NorthEastern region from 25-27 July 2005.


Prof. D.S. Bhattacharjee, Principal(from 02-01-2006) attended the visionsdevelopment seminar of NCERT and

made a presentation on NERIE in MHRDand NCERT forums. He also attendedthe meetings of NERIE, NEC, delivered alecture in the Centre for DistanceEducation in NEHU Shillong.

Prof. Utpala Konwar worked as O.S.D.NERIE Shilling up to 01-02-2006. Sheworked on the projects "Development ofLife Sketches of Great personalities ofNorth East India" and "Development ofValue Education material through FolkStories". She contributed as a resourceperson for the programmes organised forthe North–Eastern region by otherconstituents of NCERT including the oneon development of National CurriculumFramework (2005). She has a publicationto her credit on "Education in newmillennium in SAARC Counties andChina".

Prof. Jyoti Prakash Bagchi wasinvolved in various training programmesorganised for the North Eastern region byother constituents of NCERT. Hecordinated one training programme.

Participants preparing mask at work-oriented training programme

held at NERIE, Shillong


Prof. Awadesh K. Mishra coordinated anOrientation Programme on Competencybased Teaching and Learning for the KeyResource Persons of the North EasternStates organised by NERIE held atShillong from 6-10 March 2006. Hecontributed as resource person in regionallevel sharing meetings on quality ofelementary education under SSA andorientation programmes on EffectiveCommunication and Skills and anorientation programme on Teaching ofEnglish and Social Sciences for MadarsaSchool Teachers. He presented a paper on"The Problems of Sadri Speaking Childrenin the Context of Bilingualism in Assam"organised by the Assam University,Silchar from 28-29 Jan 2006. He wrote 2articles in Hindi and one in English on'Medium of Instruction' for IGNOU.

Dr. Saryug Yadav, Reader coordinatedthe programmes - orientation of HeadTeachers/ Principals of Meghalaya, Assam,Arunachal Pradesh, and Sikkim onInstitutional Planning and Management;Orientation of Key Resource Persons of NEStates on Inclusive Education; EffectiveCommunication Skills for KRPs ofArunachal Pradesh and Sikkim; andregional level sharing meeting on qualityof elementary education under SSA. Heparticipated in a 2-day Seminar onBilingualism in North East Indiaorganised by the Assam University,Silchar and presented a paper entitled'Language Teaching in India with SpecialEmphasis on North Eastern States: AMultilingual Perspective.'

Dr. Brajayanti Devi, Reader worked asone of the project team members of aresearch project ¶eè; çns'k osQ flagksj ftys osQfo|ky; NksM+ pqosQ Nk=kksa ,oa ;qodksa dk Ñf"k ,oamlls lacaf/r {ks=kksa esa O;kolkf;d vkdka{kkvksa ,oaojh;rkvksa dk vè;;u-¸ She coordinated aprogramme on "Development ofguidelines, Modular Curricula andTraining Manual on Seed ProductionTechnology". She also contributed inorientation prgrammes on Work orientedEducation at Elementary Level for the keyfunctionaries of North-Eastern States;Classroom transaction strategies(Secondary Stage) for Head Teachers/Teachers; Vocational EducationProgramme for Principals, SeniorTeachers and Key functionaries ofMeghalaya; and Sensitisation of theofficers of SC/ST Corporation/Institutions of Eastern region.

Tasongwi Newmei, Lecturer worked forthe News Bulletin of NERIE andcontributed in other activities of theInstitute.

Dr. Daksha M. Parmar, Lecturer workedfor the News Bulletin of NERIE andcontributed in other activities of theInstitute.

Dr. Sharad Kumar Pandey, Lecturerwas associated with the preparation ofNERIE Bulletin. He was also involved inthe programme titled, "Capacity Buildingof Functionaries in EnvironmentalEducation including DisasterManagement and Mitigation."

Documents

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