Perception of Teacher Trainees on ‘Quality Training’ in District Institute of Education and Training

Anandakumar N.*, Swatantra Devi T.K. and Kalaiyarasan G.

Quality is the vital factor in the educational system. Many District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) have been established under the scheme of Programme of Action (PoA) in 1986. Revised Policy Formulation and Education (1992) has clearly made all effects to improve the quality for primary school teachers. We need a quality teacher, not an information dispenser. Trainees are going to meet the challenging task in the future perception on quality education. A study was conducted in DIET of Tamilnadu. Analyses were made by percentage of perception of teacher trainees on quality training indicated through physical infrastructure, learning materials, course content, transactional method, educators, administration, internship, co-curricular activities, problems and issues and benefits from the institute.

In infrastructure facility, 86% trainees expressed that satisfactory level. In learning materials like TV, Computer and other modern gadgets, 63% trainees perceived well. Near 82% of trainees expressed the Course content made very clear. The place of the teacher in the teaching learning-process cannot be under estimated. Many of them accepted that assignments were given regularly. 62% trainees stated that educators did not allow them to use the science laboratory experiments. 70% agreed that the institute provided the necessary administrative help to the students. 83% accepted that awareness in different areas has been created in them through the training course. 58% confirmed that the micro-teaching concepts provided in the institute were satisfactory. 57% said that co-curricular activities provided in the institute were satisfactory. Finally, most of the trainees felt that there was no chance for Open mind discussion.

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Understanding the importance of Quality Education for Sustainable Development

Ahmed Musa Khan

In today’s world, the importance of sustainable development must be known by all the people. All the activities regarding sustainable development depend upon the sensitization of every citizen of the country and the best way to sensitize people about this concept is to educate them i.e. the reason behind the presence of quality education among sustainable development goals.

This study highlights the importance of education in sensitizing people about the concept of sustainable development. It also clarifies the difference between education and exclusive education for sustainable development. This paper clearly identifies the role of corporate and civil societies along with educational institution in providing education as one of the sustainable development goals and exclusive education about the concept of sustainable development.

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A Support received in the Large Families in Poland as a factor influencing the Students’ Results in School: Quantitative Survey Report

Mateusz Smieszek

In this study, I am going to present a fragment of the research concerning large families in Poland. I analyse the relation between shaping the educational failures and successes of the students having their origin in the large families and the support they get from their parents in the numerous families. The analysis shall be made based on the comparison of the character of the relationships inside the families in the study case of the students in the lower secondary school who come from different backgrounds. This article shall constitute the description of the results of the survey research conducted in two schools (lower secondary schools) in the group of over 150 students. The family relationships, communication character between parents – children are going to be analysed according to the place of living (village, city) and number of children in a family (large and small families).

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