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Dear Teacher Educator,

DSERT The Department of State Educational Research and Training, popularly known as DSERT is the

academic wing of the Department of Public Instruction. It aims at providing academic leadership in

school education as well as improving the quality of education provided in primary and secondary

schools in the state.

The Department of state educational research and Training (DSERT), a premier institute in the space

of research and training in the Karnataka education space has tremendous potential to cater to the

needs of teacher education. DSERT innovates lot of new programs to enhance the capacities of

Teacher educators and thus to increase the quality of the teaching learning processes in the schools.

It is a matter of immense pleasure that DSERT along with TESS India are organising Teacher

Educator Conference which is scheduled to happen from 11th Mar15 to 12th Mar15 in Bangalore.

The sessions would be relevant to the work areas of the teacher educators. The theme of the

conference would revolve around teacher education development.

TESS (Teacher Education through School based Support)

The TESS-India project is led by The Open University in the UK and is funded by UK aid from the UK

government. It is working towards improving the quality and quantity of teacher education in India.

Initiated in November 2012, the project focuses on the professional development of teacher

educators and teachers in the states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Karnataka,

Assam and West Bengal.

Our goal is to encourage student-centric, active teaching and learning pedagogies at both

elementary and secondary school levels across India. It is our belief that participatory teaching and

learning practices are crucial to an enhanced classroom experience.

The TESS-India approach uses high-quality teacher development units (TDUs) and leadership

development units (LDUs) for teachers and school leaders to use in their everyday work. These

flexible, adaptable and modifiable open resources demonstrate active learning pedagogies through

practice. Our TDUs cover hard topics from elementary and secondary maths, science, English, and

mother tongue. The LDUs cover topics on leadership and school management.

Call for papers:

DSERT and TESS are jointly calling for papers from the teacher educator in the DIETs and CTEs to

present in the Teacher Educator conference. The details for writing papers is as follows

Theme: The paper should revolve around the functions of DIETs and CTEs, which are

1. PRE-SERVICE PROGRAMME (revival strategy)

2. RESEARCH AND ACTION RESEARCH

3. RESOURCE CENTRE AND DOCUMENTATION

4. TRAINING PROGRAMMES FOR TEACHERS, BRC and CRC COORDINATORS, SDMC MEMBERS,

etc.

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5. PROGRAMMES CONDUCTED FOR FACULTY OF DIET and CTE

6. TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHER EDUCATION

7. INNOVATIONS

8. CONTENT & MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT

9. ON-SITE SUPPORT TO TEACHERS

Timeline The deadline for submission of papers would be 28.2.2015 5.30 pm, beyond which the entries will

not be entertained

Final Decision

Final decision in terms of selection and rejection of the entries will completely be with the

committee constituted for scrutinizing the paper

PAPER PRESENTION FORMAT

1. Paper details

Participants of the Conference should present the paper, which would either be written specifically

for the Conference within the announced topic, or previously not published anywhere else. The

paper should be sent in both English and Kannada

2. Document format

All parts of the paper must be contained in a single file (one each for Kannada and English) . Papers must be in Microsoft Word format and have a .doc or .docx file extension. Papers that do not conform to this rule, such as papers in PDF format or using a .dat file extension, will not be accepted.

3. Paper Size and Margins All pages of the papers must be A4 size, 8.5 x 11 inches (21 x 29.7 cm), with equal margins of 2.54 cm on all four sides. The Organizing Committee may reformat a paper that does not comply with this rule. Participants are advised that such reformatting may result in changes to pagination and layout.

4. Font and Font Size The font and size of the text of all parts of the paper, excluding the Cover Page, but including the footnotes, must be in Times New Roman 12-point, double-spaced, for Kannada Tunga (Unicode) with font size 12 should be used.

5. Parts of Paper a.Cover page b.Abstract c. Main body of the paper d.List of references

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6.List of References The List of references must list all legal authorities cited in any part of the paper and must indicate the page number(s) of the paper on which each authority is cited.

7. Plagiarism

The papers should align and conform to the rules and regulation of plagiarism.

8. Length The word count shall be conducted using the standard "Word Count" feature in Microsoft Word 2003, Microsoft Word 2007, or Microsoft Word 2010. The length of the Abstract shall not exceed 500 words. The overall length of the Research paper should not exceed 3600 words. Reference: http://armscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Call-for-papersEN.pdf