- Selection of candidates to teacher education courses (D.El.Ed., B.Ed., M.Ed., B.H.Ed., B.P.Ed., M.Phil) is being done through Entrance Test from 2014, as per the recommendations of Justice Verma Commission and NCTE’s direction.
- Online Computer Based Entrance Test for selection of candidates has been introduced from the year, 2018-2019 and nearly 2.50 lakhs candidates have appeared the Online Test. The placement of candidates in different institutions has been done through Online Counseling.
- After NAS 2017, regional workshops have been conducted to orient all the DIET faculties, DPCs, DEOs on Learning Outcomes, State Report card, District Report Cards and preparation of Pedagogical Planning for the districts.
- Learning Outcome document has been translated to Odia and have been made available to all the teachers / DIET faculties of the State.
- All the CRCCs / ABEOs have been trained by DIETs on use of District Report Cards and cluster specific plans have been developed by CRCCs in collaboration with respective DIETs.
- District Report Cards and State Report Cards have been made available to all the CRCCs / ABEOs / DEOs and DPCs for their use.
- District level Seminars are being conducted at DIET level for better reflection of the District Report Card and its use.
- Teacher Educators of DIETs have been trained on DIKSHA portal and its usefulness for the teachers and Teacher Educators.
- Taxonomy in all subjects (elementary level) have been developed.
- 76 textbooks from Class I to VIII have been converted to Energized Textbooks by imposition of QR codes.
- The B.Ed. and M.Ed. Syllabus were revised as per NCTE 2015 guidelines and implemented w.e.f 2016-17.
- Common syllabus for B.Ed and M.Ed is used across all the Universities of the State to bring uniformity.
- All the faculty of IASEs / CTEs were trained on the new Teacher Education Curriculum.
- In order to bring uniformity in academic Curricular activities, Unified Academic Calendar has been developed.
- The D.El.Ed. Curriculum have already been developed by SCERT and submitted to BSE, Odisha and to be implemented from 2019-20 session.
- The Directorate of TE and SCERT has developed Common Unified Academic Calendar (UAC) for all Secondary and Elementary Teacher Education Institutions to maintain uniformity in the approaches of dealing with different components of syllabus.
- Detailed action plans for carrying out the semester-wise completion of the syllabus with the major ideas which are needed to be covered by all the institutions to provide a common structure across different Universities have been indicated in the said academic calendar.
- The Unified Academic Calendar helps in monitoring of curricular activities among all the institutions by the Directorate.
- The Unified Training Calendar gives a complete picture of different training which are designed for the elementary, secondary teachers, Teacher Educators and the training component approved for the TE and SCERT under Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan.
- The visit of National and State Level Think Tank members have already been completed to adopt 10 DIETs which are identified by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India under the inspirational districts
- The detailed components as has been indicated in the Guideline of inspirational district have been studied minutely by the Think Tank members and the suggestions for improvement and monitoring as a follow up action has been initiated.
- Capacity Building of all faculties of Teacher Education Institutions have been made functional on self-awareness, understanding of self and others, self-motivation, self-mentoring and training of trainers in a continuous basis with the support of UNICEF.
- ‘ICT in Teacher Education programme’ was introduced in selected DIETs / IASEs / CTEs and BITEs with technical support of SNDT Women University, Mumbai and CIET, New Delhi.
- ICT tools have been used by those TEIs in Teaching-Learning Processes and Assessment.
- ICT components have already been integrated in the PSTE Curriculum for B.Ed and D.El.Ed. (as a special paper as well as integration in Core / Pedagogy papers)
- Online Professional Learning Community (PLCs) are functioning at DIET, Khurda and DIET, Nayagarh.
- All the Teacher Educators and official staffs are being trained on the Basic computer literacy skills as per the suggestions given in the PAB by Ministry of Human Resource Development (2017)
- Directorate of TE and SCERT has taken initiative for establishing a Cell at DIET level for education of children with special needs and empowerment of DIET faculty on Inclusive classroom practices.
- Faculties from DIETs and Resource Person (CWSN) from SSA have been trained by SCERT on development of appropriate TLM for inclusive classes.
- Techniques of preparation of appropriate TLM for Visual Impairment, Hearing Impairment, Cerebral Palsy and Mental Retardation are the major inclusive components on which TLMs have been developed in the workshops with an intention to distribute it to the required classrooms having the CWSN children.
- Collaboration of NIVH, NIHH and Institute of Intellectual Disability with TE and SCERT have been made for this purpose.
- All the 30 DIETs have been monitored by SCERT through a tablet based App.
- Attendance of the student-teachers, PSTE Activities, In-service Training activities, Extension activities and Research and Innovation activities on daily basis have been monitored by SCERT through reports.
- Feedbacks are provided to the Heads of the TEIs to improve their performance on the basis of the Online monitoring.
- NCERT sponsored research activities on Population Education / Adolescence Education Issues is going on.
- District Level Research Committees are constituted in all DIETs / CTEs / IASEs to take up institutional research studies.
- Small scale research studies (based on District Specific Issues) have been undertaken and going on by all the DIETs / IASEs / CTEs under academic support of SCERT.