DIET Gandhinagar (District Institute Of Education and Training, Gandhinagar)

District Institute of Education and Training, Gandhinagar was established in the fourth stage in June 2002 by the Education Department. The Director of GCERT and the Principal of the DIET who has done great effort for doing proposal for DIET & doing great effort for doing proposal for DIET & doing procedure to obtain Land for DIET Building and as a result of such action DIET- Gandhinagar’s Birth is done. So now DIET is working for Elementary teachers’ training, Educational Researches and to developing the elementary education curriculum. “To provide academic and resource support at the grass-roots level for the success of the various strategies and programmes being undertaken in the areas of elementary and adult education, with special reference to the following objectives” Guidance regarding Education, Research and Training, Planning and Administration etc. then was being imparted through Institutions like National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) and State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) until the adoption of National Education Policy 1986. Below the state level, there were initial education but its activities were limited to pre-service training. In the same way, help was being provided in the field of Adult Education through the Central Adult Education Directorate of the National level and State Resource Centre’s (SRCs) at the state level. Our vision is to work for perfection with quality education and to nurture teachers of tomorrow with the transformative knowledge of Indian tradition and new era of teacher education, focusing upon the integral development of teachers. Our mission is to impart quality education as well as make comprehensive development of the students and teachers by providing guidance about latest trends, policies and technological help in Teacher Education, marked and defined by value-education, global outlook, innovation and interdisciplinary education. To make good teachers of future, we educate our students with best practices of making classroom process joyful and student centric. To stimulate the academic environment for promotion of quality in teaching-learning and research in schools; we plan training for teachers with local bodies. In that we have many subjects like skill enhancement among the teachers, content development, tricks and activities for classrooms and environment friendly school. To encourage self-evaluation, accountability, autonomy and innovations in education; we are doing lots of co-curricular activities with students and teachers. To undertake quality-related research studies, consultancy and training programs. To collaborate with other stakeholders of higher education for quality evaluation. During the period of implementation of National Policy on Education (NPE), functions of primers and adult education were so much extended and expanded that only agencies at the national and state level were not sufficient enough to cope up with the work. Retention of students and quality education became essential along with universalization of education. It was also essential that teachers get trained with new trends and innovations in education, educational methods, techniques and Teaching-Learning Material (TLM). Imparting training to in service teachers became a must, so that this get well-equipped. Until now, only school education was being emphasized while taking about improvement in education, but consideration of out of school-children is also equally important. This great work of making universalization of education and retention as well as making quality education available to all could not be done only through education system teachers and few private agencies. In fact, co-operation of different sections of the society non-government organizations (NGO), village people, panchayats etc. should be trained. The work was not limited to only implementation and expansion of the National and the State level. Then a need was felt to expand the same from the State level to the District level and that resulted in the establishment of “District Institutions of Education and Training”. Thus the third tier was added, which can perform the work of orientation of education in the whole of the district. ...view more