Linking Promotion of Teachers to Performance of Students – There is
no proposal at present to link promotion of teachers to performance of
students
Human Resource Development has announced the scheme of National Award to teachers to recognize their good performance
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Government of India
Ministry of Human Resource Development
28-April-2016 18:39 IST
Linking Promotion of Teachers to Performance of Students
There is no such proposal at present to link promotion of teachers to
performance of students. Recruitment and service conditions of teachers
are in the domain of State Governments/UT Administrations. However, The
Central Government has a scheme of National Award to teachers to
recognize good performance of teachers across the country. School
enrollment campaigns are launched by States at the start of the school
academic year for awareness generation to enroll out-of-school children
in schools and to reach out hitherto un-reached children in remote
areas, working children, girls, children belonging to SC and ST
communities, and children in difficult circumstances.
The performance of students is related to multiple factors
including school and home environment. The Central Government has taken
various steps to ensure teacher accountability in government and aided
schools.
. The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)
has developed Performance Indicators for Elementary Education (PINDICS)
to track teacher performance and attendance in Government schools.
PINDICS have been shared with State Governments/UTs to assess teacher’s
performance.
Additionally, teachers attendance is being monitored by States/UTs
through School Management Committees/School Management Development
Committees/ Block Resource Centres/Clusters Resource Centres and in some
cases by installing bio-metric attendance system etc.
The Central Government has launched the ‘Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya
National Mission on Teachers and Teaching’ in December, 2014 with a
vision to comprehensively address all issues related to teachers,
teaching, teacher preparation, professional development, curriculum
design, research in pedagogy and developing effective pedagogy.
As per the mandate of the Right of Children to Free and
Compulsory Education (RTE) Act 2009, Government of India has notified
the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) as the Academic
Authority at the national level for teacher education and qualification.
NCTE has prescribed teacher qualifications for various levels. It has
also made it mandatory that all persons holding teacher qualifications
as laid down by the NCTE must also pass a teacher eligibility test
(TET).These two steps by NCTE are widely seen as efforts to improve the
standards of teaching with eventual positive impact on quality of
education.
This information was given by the Union Human Resource Development
Minister, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani today in a written reply to a Rajya
Sabha question.
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