State Council of Educational Research and Training
In order to provide new direction to school education, the Haryana Education Department merged two institutes namely
State Institute of Education and State Institute of Science Education in April, 1979 to establish the Sate Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT).
The main
function of this Council is to bring qualitative improvement in the field of school education. It has been a firm view of the Haryana Education Department
that the educational standards of the teachers must be improved for a qualitative improvement in school education. Hence various efforts are made to
enhance the educational standards of the teachers through nine different departments.
The main aim of their activities is to acquaint the teachers with the innovations brought out in the field of school education
through teachers training programmes and workshops. This council fulfils all the needs and requirements in the field of education through the working of these
departments. Multifarious activities of these departments are as follows :
Activities /Functionalities
Organises in-service training
programmes for teachers, administrators and teacher
educators.
Implements new educational techniques
and methodologies.
Co-ordinates with District Institutes
of Education and Training (DIETs) and imparts guidance.
Co-ordinates with various State
councils of Education, Regional College of Education, Ajmer, NCERT, NIEPA and
EdCIL.
Identifies disabled children in and
out of schools through IED centres in the state.
Creates awareness among
teachers/students about the need of guidance by delivering
lectures.
Searches out educational problems and
their remedies.
Develops Teaching Learning Material
(TLM) for various training programmes to get it printed.
Organises training programmes and
workshops for teachers for the improvement of educational
evaluation.
Prepares question papers for school
examination of various classes.
Organises calligraphic competitions
for primary classes.
Provides guidance to Board of School
Education related to evaluation.
Organises Students Science
Seminar.
Organises District and State level
Science exhibitions.
Guides the students / teachers to
participate in National Level Science Exhibition.
Solves problems of the field related
to Science.
Develops work experience syllabus for
various levels.
Popularises computer literacy in
schools.
Creates awareness among children and
instructors of non-formal centres run by NGOs.
Reviews school text books in the
light of population education.
Organises training courses for
teachers to create awareness about the environment.
Develops teaching learning material
and gets it printed.
Reviews, updates, edits, vets and enriches the
text-books for various classes.
Prepares manuscripts of text-books
for various classes for printing.
Surveys problems related to the
textbooks and takes remedial measures.
Develops English syllabus for classes
I to V, English text-books for classes I to V and teachers
guide.
Organises training programmes for
teachers for the knowledge of software and hardware.
Develops software
material.
Prepares educational broadcast
programmes for AIR Rohtak.
Trains the teachers about the use of
audio-visual aids in classroom situations.
Implements project on Integration of art and culture with
education.
Maintains films and video-cassette library.
Organises National Integration camps for teachers and
students.
Reviews books / magazines for their suitability in school libraries.
District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) Cell :
It has been set up under the World Bank aided project - DPEP. The main objective
of the project is universalisation and qualitative improvement of primary
education in seven districts namely - Hisar, Jind, Kaithal and Sirsa, Gurgaon,
Mahindergarh and Bhiwani.
Its functions are:-
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Develops material for mass mobilization and awareness such as
induction manual folders, calendars, booklets, posters and stickers etc, for
printing and publication.
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Develops material for different training packages (VEC, VCC,
Master Trainers etc.), for printing and publication.
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Develops material for training package for gender sensitization
for administrators, masters, lecturers, teacher educators, VEC and VCC members,
for printing and publication.
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Develops MLL based curriculum, text books, work books and
teachers guide for primary classes through involvement of in-service teachers
and experts for printing and publication.
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Holds workshops to develop child centred, low cost and
effective teaching learning material for primary classes.
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Implements the programmes and activities of DPEP in
co-ordination with the State Project Director (SPD), NCERT, NIEPA and RIE
Ajmer.
Examination Wing :
