DEPARTMENTS OF DIET – DESCRIPTION

Empowering educators with quality training and resources.

1. PSTE – Pre-Service Teacher Education

Core Responsibilities

1. Pre-Service Training:

   • Conducting admissions, instruction, and evaluations for elementary teacher education courses.

   • Providing academic inputs for all subjects handled by the branch.

2. Promoting Child-Centred & Holistic Education:

   • Spreading learner-centred approaches.

   • Promoting personality development, value education, and cultural awareness.

   • Creating teaching aids, conducting trainings, and undertaking action research.

3. Teaching Methodologies:

   • Developing and guiding methodologies such as multi-grade teaching, peer tutoring, etc.

   • Improving teaching-learning methods in both schools and NFE (Non-Formal Education) centres.

4. Psychological Support:

   • Offering counselling and guidance services to schools and NFE/AE (Adult Education) centres.

5. Special Education Focus:

   • Supporting disadvantaged learners, first-generation learners, and children with disabilities.

   • Developing strategies for gifted children.

In-Service Responsibilities

• Conducting in-service training exclusively related to subjects handled by the PSTE branch.

• Providing academic inputs to all other branches.

• Key activities include:

  • In-service training

  • Orientation and training for NFE/AE personnel

  • Development of teaching aids, tools, tests, and curricula

  • Field interaction and action research

2. IFIC – In-Service Programmes, Field Interaction, Innovation & Coordination

Key Functions

1. District Training Planning:

   • Identifying training needs of teachers.

   • Preparing district training plans and annual programme calendars (inside and outside DIET).

2. Nodal Role for In-Service Training:

   • Organising all in-service programmes not specific to one branch.

   • Coordinating orientation of resource persons.

   • Managing distance and contact-mode training programmes.

3. Monitoring & Evaluation:

   • Assessing quality of all in-service programmes in and outside DIET.

   • Taking steps for continuous improvement.

4. Database & Follow-up:

   • Maintaining teacher training database.

   • Conducting follow-up interactions via visits, letters, or printed material.

5. Resource & Reference Centre:

   • Supporting teachers who pursue continued education.

6. Research & Innovation:

   • Coordinating action research and disseminating findings.

   • Publishing newsletters and journals for district schools and centres.

Major Roles

1. Training for AE/NFE Personnel:

   • Supporting planning, coordination, and implementation of AE/NFE training programmes.

2. Organising Training:

   • Conducting induction and continuing education programmes for instructors, supervisors, and preraks.

   • Conducting orientation programmes for resource persons.

3. Instructional Inputs:

   • Providing subject-specific support in areas like language, arithmetic, and functional skills.

   • Offering academic support on philosophy, objectives, and evaluation in AE/NFE.

4. Monitoring & Evaluation:

   • Assessing the quality of AE/NFE training inside and outside DIET.

5. Database Management:

   • Maintaining records of all AE/NFE trainees and facilitating follow-up activities.

6. Curriculum & Material Development:

   • Adapting and developing teaching materials, curricula, and evaluation tools for adult and non-formal education.

7. Field Interaction:

   • Working directly with AE/NFE centres and addressing academic issues.

   • Providing support through extension activities.

8. Media Support:

   • Helping authorities utilise media—including traditional media—for AE/NFE programmes.

3. DRU – District Resource Unit

4. P&M – Planning and Management

Primary Responsibilities

1. District Educational Database:

   • Maintaining essential data for planning and monitoring UPE/UEE/NLM goals.

2. Policy Studies & Research:

   • Conducting studies on enrolment, attendance, retention, community participation, and intervention impact.

   • Identifying educationally backward pockets as DIET’s “lab areas.”

3. Technical Support to Authorities:

   • School mapping

   • Micro-planning

   • Formation and support of school complexes

   • Institutional planning and evaluation

4. Community Involvement:

   • Serving as nodal branch for community participation programmes.

   • Conducting orientation for DBE, VEC, youth groups and community leaders.

5. ET – Educational Technology

Functions

1. Teaching Aid Development:

   • Creating simple, low-cost, effective teaching aids (charts, models, slides, audio/video content).

2. Support to DRU:

   • Assisting in creation of teaching aids for AE/NFE.

3. Equipment & Resource Management:

   • Maintaining all AV equipment, computer lab, educational media library, and display areas.

4. Media Sharing:

   • Lending slides, films, cassettes to institutions.

   • Coordinate with radio stations for educational broadcasts.

5. Teacher Training in ET:

   • Conducting programmes for teachers in usage of media, broadcasts, and low-cost aids.

6. Workshops & Inputs:

   • Organizing workshops and supporting all DIET programmes with ET-related inputs.

Key Duties

1. Identifying Local WE Areas:

   • Spinning, weaving, bamboo work, beekeeping, dyeing, chatai-making, etc.

   • Creating sample curricular units and teaching materials.

2. Implementation in Schools:

   • Supporting introduction of Work Experience activities in elementary schools and NFE/AE centres.

3. Teacher Training:

   • Conducting in-service training for teachers on WE-related activities.

4. Cross-departmental Support:

   • Providing WE inputs in pre-service, in-service, AE/NFE training, and action research.

5. Campus Maintenance Activities:

   • Organizing cleanliness drives, gardening, upkeep of playgrounds, and maintenance work.

6. Community Service & Visits:

   • Coordinating community service and field visits to work centres.

6. WE – Work Experience

7. CMDE – Curriculum Material Development & Evaluation

Core Functions

1. Curriculum Development:

   • Adapting and developing curricular units, teaching-learning materials, and evaluation tools.

   • Creation of primers for tribal languages where needed.

2. Support to DRU:

   • Developing materials for adult and non-formal education.

3. Achievement Testing:

   • Conducting sample-based tests to measure learning levels of school and adult learners.

4. Learner Evaluation System Support:

   • Helping institutions implement reliable evaluation methods.

5. Workshops & Training:

   • Conducting teacher programmes related to curriculum and evaluation.

6. Cross-Branch Inputs:

   • Supporting all DIET programmes with CMDE-related expertise.

8. ELTC – English Language Teaching Centre

Main Roles

• Improving English teaching and learning across the district.

• Developing English teaching materials, remedial programmes, and teacher training modules.

• Offering language labs, practice sessions, and supporting innovative English pedagogy.

• Providing in-service and pre-service English language training.

The teacher training program here truly transformed my approach to education—practical, insightful, and deeply supportive.

Anita R.

★★★★★