Meeting with the Director TE & SCERT

A Meeting was held with the Director, TE & SCERT on 16^th June 2012 where, the DE team was present.  A presentation was made by Operations Director, DE Odisha, on the current status and future directions of the DE Program. Director TE & SCERT suggested a midpoint evaluation of the DE program through a third party agency. There was a stress on transitioning from Procurement model to an output oriented model as far as computer aided learning is concerned.

An Interactive session with External expert at SCERT

A one day interactive training session on “Question Bank” was held on 08^th June 2012 for DE team members at SCERT, Bhubaneswar. The training was imparted by Chandrika Nayak, Sr Teacher Educator, DIET, Nayagarh. The objective of the workshop was to educate the team members on the methodology to be followed in preparing a Question Bank.

The two and half hour lecture focused on the following aspects:

• Teaching learning process - objective, learning experiences and  evaluation
• Instructional objective - Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor
• Type of questions with examples
• Question bank in classroom.

Before winding up the session evaluation questions were asked to participants by citing instances of real life events.

WORKSHOP ON CONSTRUCTIVISM AT SCERT

A one day workshop on “Constructivism” was held on 24^th May 2012 for DE team members at SCERT, Bhubaneswar. The workshop was conducted by Dr. Rajendra Nayak, Sr Lecturer in Education, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack. The objective was to indicate the paradigm shift in education that can be brought in near future and the feasibility of the same from NCF 2005 point of view by focussing on constructivism as highlighted in the said document.