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A Comprehensive Training Policy for Technical Teachers

of training, these institutes can avail the services of eminent experts or outsource
some of the modules.

Online MOOCs will also have to be developed by the coordinating NITTTR/training
institute(s) and made available to the inductee teacher. Besides training through
MOOCs, inductee teachers will undergo contact programs during summer and winter
vacations at NITTTR/training institutes.

The inductee teacher will be assessed for the instructional inputs on the basis of written
examination, viva, relevant reports, etc. at the end of the first term and the mentor will assist
in the evaluation of the work done in the second term including a teaching performance as
well as the laboratory work and industrial training as per standard practices.

A certificate of having undergone both phases of the inductee training shall be issued to
the inductee teacher at the end of the training program. The Committee suggests the
following nomenclature for the certificate:

Induction Training in Educational Technology or Induction Training in Technical Education.
However, the certification process and nomenclature may be decided by the Apex Body/
Board discussed in section 9.

9.0 IMPLEMENTATION ASPECTS

Having provided the basic framework of the Training Policy at both the stages i.e.
induction and during different career levels and also having spelt out the broad
components of the training, the mode of conducting the training phases, the Committee
then deliberated on various aspects of implementation of the program, keeping in view
the scale of the program to be offered to a large number of teachers as well as a large
number of technical institutions.

The Committee, keeping in view above aspects and the wide range of professional
subjects to be handled in the training schedule, suggests that an Apex Body (preferably
a Board) be created at AICTE for overall planning, coordination and monitoring of the
Training Policy for its effective implementation. The suggested Apex Board (for education
technology) will have representation of MHRD, AICTE, UGC, State Technical Universities,
NITTTRs other Training Centers, Industry representatives and eminent academicians. It
is also suggested/recommended that for proper networking and implementation,three
categories of institutions be identified viz., Mentoring Institution, Training Institution
and Beneficiary Institution.

9.1 MENTORING INSTITUTION

NITTTRs which are specialized institutions dedicated to Technical Teacher Training
and some of the IITs having management & educational technology departments
will be mentoring institutions and will be expected to develop resource persons
(i.e. training the trainers) and also the training curriculum and resource material
through MOOCs. They will also be helping other Teacher Training Centers through
MOOCs, offer guidance and monitor their efficacy besides that of the training
activities. They will also be engaged in continuous action research to augment the

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