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INTRODUCTION
State Council for Educational and Training [SCERT] is an
apex body, responsible for quality education in the state.
The State Institute of Education [SIE], which functioned as a
part of the department of general education was converted
to form the SCERT, to give a new thrust and direction to
school education. SCERT, Kerala was established in 1994.
It is an autonomous
body entrusted with planning, implementation and
evaluation of all academic programs from pre-school to
higher secondary levels. SCERT is concerned with academic
aspects of school education including formulation of
curriculum, preparation of text books teacher s handbooks
and teacher training. It advises the Government on policy
matters matters relating to school education.
SCERT is closely
associated with Regional Institute of Education , Mysore,
The National council of educational Research and Training
[NCERT], New Delhi, The National Institute of Educational
Planning and Administration [NIEPA] New Delhi, The
regional institute of English, Bangalore, UNICEF and
UNFPA, Universities in Kerala.








NCERT
The National Council of Educational Research and Training
[NCERT] was established in New Delhi on first September, 1961 for
providing academic support in improving the quality of school
education in India. The general body is the policy making body of
the union minister for Human Resource Development as its
president. All the ministers of education in the states and union
Territories are its members. Besides, experts in the field of
education are also nominated as membership pattern helps in taking
policy decisions at the highest level.
The functions of the NCERT broadly relate to
(a) Research and development
(b) In-service and pre-service training
(c) Extension and dissemination work.
All these turned to achieve the main objective of improving the
quality of school education.
The states play a pivotal role in the
area of school education in India. The NCERT works in close co-
operation with the state education departments. It has a network of
17 field advisers offices covering at state and union territories. The
council associates the representatives of states with its programmes
and with the committees constituted by it.
The NCERT has close ties with
universities and other organizations that have a stake in the quality
of school education. Prominent among them are the Kendriya
Vidhyalaya Sangathan [KVS], The Central Board of Secondary
Education [CBSE], The Central Tibetan Schools Administration
[CTSA],and Navodaya Vidyalaya samiti [NVS].





KEY FUNCTIONS OF SCERT

WORKSHOPS
In workshops, the approach is more practical than a seminar. All
the participants participate actively and make a significant
contribution. A workshop is organized to consider intensively
practical problems of class room teaching like lesson planning,
curriculum construction etc.

WORKSHOP FOR VOCATIONAL TEACHERS
The workshop was intended to orient teachers with the preparation
of pools of questions based on activity-based approach.19 vocational
subject representatives participated in the workshop. One set of
question paper in each subject was prepared at the end of the
workshop.

WORKSHOP FOR PREPARATION OF SAMPLE QUESTION
PAPER AND GUIDELINE
A workshop for the development of sample question paper and
guideline for question paper setters of Std. X (for special schools) for
all the subjects was prepared. The same was handed over to
Secretary, Pareeksha Bhavan.







TRAINING COORDINATION
DTE (Department of Teacher Education)s areas of action are
organizing teacher training programmes (both in-service and pre-
service) for the TTIs and DIETs.
TRAINING ON ADOLESCENT HEALTH EDUCATION
PROGRAMME (AHEP)
The workshop for the development of module for conducted from
25-27 August 2011. As a continuation the training for empowering
the DRU faculty of DIET on AHEP was teacher educators of TTIs
covering all the districts of Kerala is to be conducted in Kozhikode,
Kottayam, Thrissur, Kollam and Ernakulum on 20 December 2011
and would be completed by 13 January 2012.

ADVOCASY PROGRAMME FOR PRINCIPALS OF B.Ed.
COLLEGES.
A one-day meeting was convened for the principals of B.Ed. colleges
to make them aware of the importance of the relevance and need for
population education. The main discussion was the adolescence
issues and concerns.

HIGHER SECONDARY SRG TRAINING
SRG Training for Higher Secondary teachers for the year 2011-2012
was conducted at various centers. Training was conducted for 17
major subjects. The batches were of 50, 60 and 100 members for
different subjects and it was a 3-day programme. The topic
generally discussed in all subjects was guidance and counseling,
career development, and how to conduct cluster effectively and ICT-
based model classroom.







NTEC/PRE-PRIMARY TEACHER
It is a comprehensive course envisaged for equipping aspirants to
become new millennium Pre-school/ Nursery teacher. This is a
systematic course dealing with major areas of child developments
such as Elementary education-Sociological and philosophical
foundations, Child development and psychology, health, Practical
and training.


ICT TRAINING FOR HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL HINDI
TEACHERS
ICT- based training is an area much desirable for Hindi teachers.
ICT training for Higher Secondary Hindi teachers of the state was
held from 21.02.2012 to 08.03. 9 Core SRG members and total of
400 SRG provided members attended from 14 districts. The
programme classes on File creation, Hindi Devanagari typing, mail
creating, e-mail sending, slide making and Blog creating. These
teachers will impart training at cluster level.








PROGRAMMES
GUIDANCE AND COUNCELLING
Future teachers should be equipped to systematically plan
and organize school guidance and counselling programmes. Hence it
was decided to review the pre-service teacher education curriculum
at the primary level for guidance and counselling components. The
objectives were to examine, review, and analyze the current
curriculum redundancies.

KERALA CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
The curriculum revision programme in Kerala was
conceptualized on the basis National Curriculum Framework
[NCF]. But there should be reforms in the methodology of learning
infrastructure facilities, teacher intervention strategies, approach of
different subject, Course design, Textbooks, teachers handbook and
evaluation.


PROJECTS
Department of educational Technology is working in
association with IT@ School project, SIET etc. It gives academic
leadership for the training of IT master trainers and school IT
co-ordinators to implement of IT education in schools, using
computer as a tool for acquiring and using information and
knowledge. Development of story board for resource CDs for
various subjects in high school classes.






CONCLUSION
Quality teachers are the assets of a school. Teacher
empowerment has got new dimensions in our country owing to the
vision put forth by National Curriculum Framework [NCF] for
making teacher education more sensitive to the merging demand of
the school system. SCERT has important role in this area. For all
academic purposes SCERT functions as an autonomous body.
SCERT, at the state level will carry out all those activities as
counterpart of NCERT for the qualitative improvement of
education in the state.


REFERENCE
Education in Emerging Indian Society
--- Dr. R. S Pandey

The Teaching of Mathematics
--- Kulbir Singh Sidhu
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