HRD ministry sets up committee to institutionalize teacher education internship programmes

NEW DELHI: In a meeting with State Education Ministers chaired by Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Zubin Irani, it was decided to constitute a Committee to suggest ways to institutionalize an internship of Teacher Education Programmes in Government School, look at ways to enlist interested citizens as volunteer teachers and grade teacher training institutes.

The Committee on internship includes State Education Secretaries of Rajasthan, Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Tripura and representatives of NCTE and KVS.

The internship will be for duration of 20 weeks, at the end of which the school will provide feedback on the teaching aptitude of the trainees.

Another committee has been set up to develop an accreditation / grading framework for Teacher Education Institutions so as to provide an idea of the quality of institutes.

A mobile app is meanwhile being developed in collaboration with MyGov, by the Ministry of HRD to enlist citizens who are willing to volunteer as teachers. Eighteen States expressed their willingness to participate in the first phase, the HRD ministry said in a statement:

It was also decided that NCERT will conduct a review of SCERTs and DIETs and prepare a roadmap for strengthening of teachers institutes.

All State Education Ministers have been requested to prepare a state specific roadmap to address challenges in teacher education and find out solutions to deal with them.