The Council has planned to organise an All-India Seminar on the Teaching of Mathematics for lecturers of Training colleges. Arrangements for this study camp which is to be held at Ahmedabad in the beginning of October, have now been finalised.
Secondary Education Workshops-The Council continued to collaborate with the USEFI in the organisation of their Secondary Education Workshops. It provided one senior Indian educationist, and one junior Education Officer to assist the American resource personnel at each of the workshops organised by them at Chandigarh, Bhagalpur, Khandwa, Mysore and Puri. The expenditure incurred in providing board for the participants at some of these workshops was shared by the Council with, the U.S.E.F.I.
Seminar-cum-Training Courses-The conversion of High schools into Higher Secondary schools and Multipurpose schools providing for diversified course$ has aggravated the problem of securing competent and professionally qualified teachers, particularly in the field of practical subjects, like Technology, Agriculture, Commerce, Fine Arts and Home Science. The Secondary Training colleges have made little or no provision for the training of teachers in these subjects, so that persons without professional qualifications have to be appointed to teach the subjects in the reorganised Multipurpose schools. To enable
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these teachers to acquire some kind of pedagogical training, the Council decided to organise, as an interim measure, short-term seminar-cum-training courses for the teachers of technical and vocational subjects at suitable centres in India.
A committee of specialists was appointed to advise the Council on the organisation of the Seminar-cum-Training courses. The Committee met twice on 7th of April and 25th of July, 1957 and approved the syllabuses and the plan for conducting courses for teachers of (i) Agriculture, (ii) Commerce, (iii) Technology, (iv) Fine Arts, and (v) Home Science. It recommended that the duration of the course should be six weeks in summer and five weeks in winter covering altogether 200 working hours.
The Seminar-cum-Training courses were held in June, 1957 for teachers of Technology and Agriculture at Baroda and Anand respectively. Each of the courses lasted for five weeks. The course at Baroda for the teachers of Technical subjects was conducted jointly by the Faculty of Education and Psychology and the Faculty of Engineering and Technology of the Baroda University. Similarly, the course at Anand for the teachers of Agricultural subject; was conducted by the Institute of Agriculture, Anand, in collaboration with the Faculty of Education and Psychology. These courses were designed for selected teachers of schools in the States of Bombay, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, but the teachers of Bombay State alone took advantage of the facilities provided.
Another Seminar-cum-Training course has been planned by the Council for teachers of Drawing, Painting, Modelling and Sculpture at the Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. It is to commence on 1st October, 1957. Arrangements have also been completed for a course in Home Science to be conducted at the Lady Irwin College, New Delhi, for teachers of Home Science. Plans are developing to hold four more courses, two in Commerce at Bombay and Delhi, one on Agriculture at Ludhiana and the fourth in Home Science in Madras.
Examination Reform-The Council has been concerned with the, problem of the reform of examinations since its establishment. This problem was considered by a special committee appointed by the Council some time ago. In January, 1957, the services of Dr. Benjaman S. Bloom, Head of the Board of Examiners of the University of Chicago and an expert in Educational Evaluation and Testing Procedures, were placed at the disposal of the Council for a Period of three months with the cooperation of the Ford Foundation. With the help of Dr. Bloom, the Council organised a series of six workshops on Educational, Evaluation at Delhi, Calcutta, Hyderabad, Allahabad, Jullundur and Bombay. These workshops were attended by more than 200 teachers from various State who educational process. The workshops helped these teachers to clarify their ideas were introduced to the conception of evaluation as an integral part of the total about the relationship between educational goals, learning experience and evaluation procedures and gave them an opportunity to prepare a varied sample of evaluation instruments, clearly defined with reference to educational goals.
The workshops for Secondary School teachers was followed by another one for lecturers of Training colleges at Baroda. 62 lecturers of Training colleges from all over India participated in this study camp and were initiated in the process of clarifying and justifying educational objectives and of constructing test materials in relation to these objectives. The participants at all these workshops had most valuable learning experience.
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Before Dr. Bloom's departure, the Council convened a Conference of Presidents and Secretaries of the Boards of Secondary Education to enable the distinguished expert to explain his approach to the problem of examination and evaluation and present a plan of action for examination reform. The Conference recorded its appreciation of the comprehensive and practical suggestions made by Dr. Bloom for the reform of examinations and its general approval to the programme of action outlined by him. It endorsed the view that evaluation should be regarded as an integral part of the total educational, process, and recommended to the Government of India to set up an Examination Unit at the All-India Council for Secondary Education-On the basis of these recommendations, a proposal has been submitted to the Government of India for the setting up of an Examination Unit under the auspices of the Council. The members of the Unit will work with teachers in different regions in order to (a) identify, clarify and gradually enlarge the objectives of teaching the various school subjects, (b) offer adequate learning experiences for the purposes and (c) improve evaluation tools which would be made available to the State Boards of Education for use in the external examination and to the schools for use in the internal assessment. This work, it is expected, will lead to improvement in curricula, methods of teaching and examination procedures.
Study of Special Problems -In connection with some of its manifold activities, the Council takes the help and guidance of specialists for the study of special educational problems. A reference has already been made to the Examination Committee appointed by the Council to advise it on questions relating to examination and evaluation. The recommendations of this Committee lend support to the case for the early establishment of Examination Unit at the Council. Another group of experts is working on graded structures in English in accordance with the principles laid down in the syllabus for a six- year course in English given in the Draft Syllabus for Higher Secondary schools. A Committee has also been constituted to advise the Council on all matters connected with the improvement of the teaching of Science with particular reference to the organisation and promotion of Science Clubs, and the consideration of the design and equipment of functionally adapted Science laboratories and classrooms. The Committee met in September, 1957 and has recommended, among other things the setting up immediately of a Central Science Club and Central Science Workshop in Delhi.
Another question that has been taken up by the Council relates to the more effective utilisation of school broadcasts by Secondary schools. A special committee appointed for this purpose has carefully examined this question and suggested ways and means by which the programmes intended for Secondary schools could be improved, the production of the broadcasts could be stepped up in quality and radio listening could be popularised and strengthened in Secondary schools. An important Committee recently appointed by the Council is concerned with the proposal for encouraging experiments in schools described in the concluding paragraph of this note.
Publications--The Council has been publishing a monthly journal entitled, "Teachers Education" from January, 1957. The journal is the organ of the Council and discusses every month the progress of the projects, activities and experiments initiated under the auspices of the Council.
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During the period under review the Council has also published the following :
1. Reform of Examinations : Proceedings of the Conference held at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi
2. A Directory of Post-graduate Teachers' Training Institutions in India
3. Proceedings of the All India Seminar on the Teaching of Science in Secondary Schools
4. Draft Syllabuses for Higher Secondary Schools (2nd enlarged edition)
5. The Teaching or Social Studies : Report of the Ail India Seminar held at Saidapat, Madras
6. Proceedings of the Third meeting of the AICSE
7. Proceedings of the Fourth Meeting of the AICSE
The test materials produced in the seven workshops conducted by Dr. Bloom, with a, foreword by Shri Saiyidain and an introductory chapter by Dr. B.S. Bloom is in the press.
Experiments in Schools-A dynamic programme of a Secondary school reform must provide for experimentation in education. At its meeting held at Simla the Council approved the proposal for encouraging worthwhile experiment in selected Secondary schools in different parts of India. The preliminary steps have now been taken for the implementation of this proposal. State Governments have been requested to recommend the names of suitable schools possessing necessary facilities for undertaking experimental projects. A committee has been appointed to examine the projects received from schools and recommend suitable grants to enable the institutions to carry out the experiments to their successful conclusion. The results of these experiments will be made available through conferences, of teachers and by means of publications to all the schools.
The Council has also under consideration a proposal for selecting a few experimental schools which would be freed from the requirements of departmental regulations and. the external public examination. With the assistance of an Advisory Committee, the headmasters and the staff of the school will have the freedom to build up their own educational programmes and award certificates themselves on the basis of systematic records of achievements over an eight year period. It is proposed to select about 30 schools at the rate of two in each State in order to find out to what extent freedom from departmental control and the exacting demands of an external examination could help in the development of a more vigorous and realistic programme of education,
This brief report of the work of the Council from 1st October, 1956 to 30th September, 1957, shows that its programme has gathered momentum and its activities are now expanding in more than one direction. At the last meeting of the, Central. Advisory Board a resolution was passed appreciating the work done by the Council "particularly in opening Extension Services departments in the Teachers' Training institutions and in organising a large number of seminars and
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workshops all over the country to come together and discuss some of the pressing educational problems". The Council's work has now extended beyond the establishment of Extension centres and the organisation of seminars and workshops. A review of this work by the Government of India is eagerly awaited.
A statement of accounts of receipts and expenditure from 1st April, 1956 to 31st March, 1957 is given at Statement XIX. This statement is subject to audit verification.
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ANNEXURE XI
Statement of T.C.M. Equipment to be Supplied to the Extension Services
Departments
S. No. Description of Equipment
1. Library books : 54 sets each containing 245 titles
and 1735 volumes
2. Films and Filmstrips: 54 units of 45 items each
3. Periodicals: 54 units of 37 items each
4. Periodicals : 54 units of 2 items each
5. Maps, Globes, Charts and Torso Models :54 units of
17 items each
6. Mimeographs-54; Offset machines-10. Exposure
frames-10 and various lots of spares
7. Motor vehicles and parts: Jeeps-42, Station
Wagons-12
8. Audio-Visual Aids
(1) Motion Picture Projectors-54
(2) White Silver Screens-54
(3) Transformers-54
(4) Slide Projectors-54
(5) Tape Recorders-54
(6) Magnetic Recording Tapes-54
(7) Portable Recordplayers-54
(8) Opaque Projectors--54
(9) Still Cameras-54
(10) Twin Lens Cameras--54
(11) Tripods-54
(12) Filmstrips Printers-54
(13) Dark Room Equipment consisting of sundry
articles-54 sets,
(14) Film Drier-1
(15) Printing frame glass-1
(16) Paper Trimmer-1
(17) Film and printing paper-54- sets
(18) Kodo Bromide-1 Pack of 50 sheets
(19) Flash bulbs etc.-cartons-54
(20) Light Meter Photo Electric Type-54 units
(21) Art and lay-out equipment-54 sets
(22) Spectrum show card colour and Grum backer
show card colour-54 sets
(23) Illustration Boards-54
(24) Silk screen equipment-54
(25) Silk screen (printing)-54
(26) Glue-108 gallons,
(27) Paper stapplers--54
(28) Silk Screen printing demonstration kits--54
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ANNEXURE XII
List of Training Colleges Approved for Inclusion in the Extension
Services Project in 1957-58 1. Secondary Teachers' College, Belgaum (Mysore)
2. Department of Education, Gauhati University, Gauhati (Assam)
3. Dr. Alagappa, Chettiar Training College, Karaikudi (Madras)
4. Faculty of Education, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar, Chidambaram, S. India
5. Meston Training College, Madras
6. Radhanath Training College, Cuttack (Orissa)
7. Balwant Rajput College of Education, Agra
8. Department of Education, Isabella Thouburn College, Lucknow
9. Government Teachers' Training College, Bikaner (Rajasthan)
10. State College of Education, Patiala (Punjab)
11. Government Post-Graduate Basic Training College, Chandigarh
12. Government Training College, Kozhikode (Kerala)
13. Government Training College, Trichur (Kerala)
14. St. Ann's Training College, Mangalore (Mysore)
15. Shri Maharani Tarabai Teachers' College, Kolhapur (Bombay)
16. Tilak College of Education, Poona 2
17. University of Training College, Nagpur
18. Dev Samaj College for Women, Ferozepur City
19. Meerut College, Meerut
20. Government Training College, Rajahmundry
21. Prantiya Shiksban Mahavidyalaya, Jabalpur
22. Government Teachers' Training College, Dewas (Madhya Pradesh)
23. Government Training College, Hoogbly
24. Government Teachers' Training College, Bhagalpur (Bihar)
25. Government Teachers' Training College, Ranchi (Bihar)
26. Thiagarajar College of Preceptors, Madurai (Madras)
27. Rashtreeya Vidyalaya, Teachers' College, Bangalore
28. Government Training College, Warangal (Andhra Pradesh)
29. Government Post-Graduate Basic Training College, Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh)
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STATEMENT XIX
ALL-INDIA COUNCIL FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION
Receipt and Payments Account for the Period from 1st April, 1956 to
31st March, 1957
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RECEIPTS PAYMENTS
Balance as on 1st April, 1956 Extension Services in Training
Colleges
Rs. a. p. Rs. a. p. Rs. a. p. Rs. a. p.
Cash in hand .. .. .. 92 14 3 1st Flight .. .. .. 4,84,836 2 6
With State Bank of India, 7,02,183 12 9 7,02,183 11 0 Seminars-
New Delhi
Grant-in-aid from Govern- .. 7,76,000 0 0 Regional Seminars .. .. 1,16,200 0 0
ment of India on 21-2-1957 All India Seminars .. .. 49,135 9 3
Follow-up work .. .. 27,734 0 0 1,93,069 9 3
Grant-in-aid from Govern- .. 94,000 0 0
ment of India on account of
T. C. M. equipment Secondary Education Workshop
Miscellaneous Receipts .. .. 23,218 2 0 Salary .. .. .. 7,794 0 0
T.A. .. .. .. 1,338 8 0 9,132 8 0
Sales of Publications .. .. 1,915 9 0
T. C. M. Enquipment
Grant received from Unesco .. .. 4,750 0 0 Charges for handling TCM equipment 17,292 12 0
for making filmstrip
Accommodation Secretariat Assist- 26,559 3 0 43,851 15 0
ance & T.A.
All-India Council for Secondary
Education and its Advisory Field
staff
Pay and allowances of Advisory Field
staff .. .. .. 46,940 13 0
T.A. of AFS .. .. 14,869 10 0 61,810 7 0
Salary of (Staff) .. .. 30,728 15 0
T.A. .. .. 2.594 9 0 33,323 8 9
Meeting of Council .. .. 6,005 4 0
Sub-Committee Meetings .. 2,761 14 0
- - 8,767 2 0
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Other Expenses-
Sationery .. .. .. 6,877 3 9
Library .. .. .. 868 9 3
Publications .. .. 13,006 11 0
Rent, Rate and Taxes .. .. 13,189 1 0
Furniture, fittings and equipment .. 10,720 7 9
Typewriters .. .. .. 6,539 12 6
Postage, Telegrams and Telephones 4,398 8 6
Entertainment .. .. 311 0 6
Audit Fee and T.A. .. .. 6,715 10 0
Conveyance allowance to Secretary 1,050 0 0
Miscellaneous .. .. .. 4,594 8 0 68,271 8 3
Balance as on 31st March, 1957
Cash in hand .. .. .. 153 2 0
Cash in hand on a/c of T.C.M. .. 149 8 9
With State Bank of India .. 6,93,879 5 6
With State Bank of India, New Delhi 1,915 9 0 6,96,097 9 3
A/C No.2
16,02,160 6 0 16,02,160 6 0