Department of Teacher Education
Minutes of the Meeting of the Departmental Advisory Board
The DAB Meeting of the Department of Teacher Education for the year 2013-14 was held on
28 th
December, 2012 at 10.00 AM in the Seminar Room, DTE, 3 rd
floor, Zakir Hussain Block,
NCERT, New Delhi under the chairmanship of Prof.S.K.Yadav Head,DTE.
The following were present in the meeting:-
Dr. S.K. Yadav
Prof. & Head
Chairperson
Prof. Hukum Singh Special Invitee
Dean(Academic)
Prof. D.K. Vaid Special Invitee
Dean(Coordination)
Prof. N.K. Jangira Member
Former Head, DTE,NCERT
Ms. Bhawana Shiksharthi Member
Director, SISE
Allahabad, UP
Prof. G.N.P. Srivastava Member
Retd. Professor
RIE, Bhopal
Prof. Saroj Bala Yadav Member
Head, DESS
Prof. Daya Pant Member
Head, DEPFE
Dr. N.K. Gupta Representative of Head, DER
DER, NCERT
Dr. P.D. Subhash Representative of Head, PMD
PMD, NCERT
Dr. P.K. Chaurasia Representative of Head, DESM
DESM, NCERT
Dr. Padma Yadav Representative of Head, DEE
DEE, NCERT

Prof. Rajrani Special invitee
DTE, NCERT
Dr. J.K. Patidar Special Invitee
DTE, NCERT
Dr. Shankar Sharan Special Invitee
DESS, NCERT
Dr. Madhulika S. Patel Member
DTE, NCERT
The following members could not attend the meeting:-
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Prof. Lokesh K. Verma, Head PG Department of Education, University of Jammu,
Jammu-18006
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Director, SCERT, Bhuaneshwar
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Head, IEC, NCERT
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Dr. B.P. Bhardwaj, DTE, NCERT
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Dr. Vijayan K. DTE, NCERT
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Dr. Kiran Walia, DTE, NCERT
Prof. S.K. Yadav, Head, DTE, welcomed all the members and Special Invitees of the DAB.
He provided a brief overview of the role and function of the department. He also apprised the members about the major activities of the department undertaken during last five years. He also briefed about the major research studies done by the departmental Specially Research
Project assigned by the MHRD entitled “A Study of the Impact of In-service Teacher
Training under SSA on classroom Transaction.” He also shared with the DAB members that department is also taking all challenges and doing work in the area of teacher education.
He requested the members to provide their views, comments and suggestions on the work done by the department so that we can improve our programmes. The DAB members appreciated the work done by the department and gave their observations and suggestions.
Prof. Daya Pant, Head, DEPFE suggested that whenever department take any research study and other developmental and training programmes, the DEPFE should be involved in that, it will enrich the quality of programmes.
Prof. G.N.P. Srivastava appreciated the work done by the department. He suggested that department should organize more training programmes for the teacher educators of IASEs,
CTEs, along with controlling officers. He also suggested that in the Conference of Directors

of SCERTs/SIEs, we can discuss why IASEs & CTEs are not performing well in their respective states. He was also of the opinion of that department should organize some orientation programmes for RIEs faculty of Teacher Education.
Prof.N.K.Jangira opined that inter departmental and intra departmental collaboration/coordination should be reflected in the programmes. He also suggested that the faculty members who had gone to field visit, their experiences should be reflected in the department activities and programmes.
Dr. Bhawana expressed her concern about the training of teacher educators of Science &
Maths of U.P. She also suggested that in the training programmes for teacher educators, teachers of KGBV from U.P. should be called. She also shared her concern that in the
SCERTs Director’s Conference, Director of SIESE, SIE and other state Department should also be called.
Prof. D.K. Vaid, Dean, Coordination has shown his concern about the quality of various programmes conducted so far.
Prof. Hukum Singh, Dean, Academic appreciate the work done by the department and made comments on inter departmental collaboration in developmental work and training programmes. He made some general comments regarding programmes that field visit experiences of the faculty should be reflected in the programme proposals presents in DAB agenda.
Prof. Yadav, Head, DTE clarified their doubts and presented project proposals for the year
2013-14 before DAB members for their suggestions and comments:-
New programmes
1. A study of Pre-Service Teacher Education Curriculum in Different States of India
The proposal was shared with DAB members for their comments and suggestions for improvement before submitting to ERIC for approval. The proposal was discussed in detail and following observation/suggestions were made:
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Proposals must be developed as per ERIC Proforma
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Detailed research design should include sampling, tools to be used for data collation etc.

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All Multicentric studies done by DER on Teacher Education should be included in the review of related studies.
Recommended
2.
Orientation Programme for Teacher Educators of College of Teacher Education CTEs on
Emerging Issues on Teacher Education
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The training design should be included in proposal.
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Teacher educators of teaching Science and Maths should be included in the training programme.
Recommended
Carried Over programmes
3.
Curriculum Transaction in Classroom: Some exampler Material
Prof. Hukum Singh mentioned that Budget of the programme is high and it should be reviewed before put in AC Meeting.
Recommended
On going Programmes
4.
Conference of Directors of SIEs/SCERTs
Recommended
5.
Publication of (i) Journal of Indian Education (JIE) and (ii) Bhartiya Adhunik
Shiksha (BAS)
Recommended
6.
All India Competition on Innovative Practices and Experiments in Education for Schools and Teacher Education Institutions
It was suggested by DAB members that selected Innovative Practices & Experiments in
Education should be shared with others and may be published in journals.
Recommended
In the concluding remarks Head, DTE appreciated the contribution and suggestions of the members for improving the programmes and activities of the departments.
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair.