Teacher Education Dashboard Launched In Odisha

Bhubaneswar: The Directorate of Teacher Education and SCERT in collaboration with UNICEF, Odisha and technical support from SDRC, has launched the Teacher Education Dashboard for teacher education institutes to monitor progress and improve the quality of teacher training.

Minister of School and Mass Education Samir Ranjan Dash said the dashboard had come at a very pertinent time as it is the need of the hour to ensure that faculties acquire knowledge on HR, infrastructure, and academic information and make informed choices for continuing education during the unprecedented education emergency because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a press release.

“The most impressive aspect about the dashboard is that it is a GIS-based interactive dashboard with alert and notification system to enable real time tracking of the institutions and aggregated data disseminated through tabular form, Bar, Pie, cards to represent trends,” he said.

Gangadhar Sahoo, Director, TE & SCERT said the integrated technological knowledge helps a prospective teacher know the world of technology in a better way. It creates a common repository that provides decision-makers with qualitative reliable data for effective decision making and planning, rolling out training programs as well as linking the training inputs to performance-based incentives.

Principal secretary, School & Mass Education Department, Satyabrat Sahoo said, “The information and communication technology (ICT) is a scientific, technological and engineering discipline and management technique used in handling information, its application and association with social, economic and cultural matters”.

Chief of Field Office UNICEF, Dr Monika Nielsen said the the dashboard is a significant medium for equipping faculties and student teachers of the TEIs of the state to navigate a smooth transition from manual based to ICT-based information platform.

The quality of professional development of teacher education depends on the extent of ICT integration in teacher education programme that supports in policy making by providing evidences through dashboard and system generated reports. UNICEF is committed to support quality learning interventions statewide, she added.