期刊名称：International Journal of Educational Research and Technology
印刷版ISSN：0976-4089
出版年度：2013
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：66-69
出版社：Society of Education
摘要：It has been lately realised that the primary& upper primaryeducation is the backbone of the socio-economic development of states in India. Inspite of considerable efforts made by the Govt. of India since independence for the expansion and improving quality of primary & upper primaryeducation.The national Policy on Education, 1986 (as updated in 1992)and the programme of Action, 1992 (POA) have emphasised the professional training of teachers teaching at the primary and middle levels on a continuous basis.The continuous training of teachers has been the concern for all those who are involved in formulating policies and executing the same at the primary & upper primary level. It is not a easy and simple task to reach out about 2.8 million primary & 2.3million upper primary teachers in the country, at least once in their service time, through the existing infrastructure created for the purpose using only face-to-face mode. Sometime, it is also necessary that significant efforts may have to be made to develop all aspects of competencies necessary for a teaching profession on a continual and integrated basis, rather than attempting on the specific aspect through the short training programs in a sporadic and isolated manner. This would mean that input for professional development of teachers at primary & upper primary level will have to be attempted on a continuous basis through designing training programs of various duration in a modular and squenced manner. It is also equally important to follow up other inter-program components to make sure that clientele retain those competencies developed through the training programs, transfer them effectively to the classroom situations. This is all the more a difficult task as far as such training programs are concerned when the comprehensive evaluation of any program is attempted. Perhaps, the effective use of multimedia, the proposed integrated approach for training design and networking of right kind of institutions committed for the purpose together can bring the answer to a great extent to all those component of a program committed for professional development ofthe clientele group, particularly at the primary & upper primary leve
