District Resource Unit

Branch

District Resource Unit

Staffing pattern

  • Vice-Principal
  • Sr. Lecturer – 1 (depending on whether both, or for only one of them. IP. see para 2.6.2)
  • Lecturer NFE – 2
  • Lecturer AE 2 – 2
  • Clerks – 2 (PI. see para 2.6.2 for alternative scenarios )

If DRU has 2 clerks, one of them will be a Steno-typist attached to the Vice-Principal.
The DRU will draw liberally on the support of functionaries of Development Deptts., educational activists etc., as resource persons, for conducting its programmes.

Funtions

  1. To assist educational authorities in planning and coordination of training programmes for AE/NFE personal throughout the distt., and to provide necessary support to such programmes organised outside the DIET.
  2. To serve as the nodal branch for organising :- (i) programmes of induction training and continuing education for instructors and supervisors/preraks of NFE/AE to be organised in the DIET (Programmes for preraks of AE will be done in conjunction with the SRC) (ii) Orientation programmes for resource persons of the following kinds:- (a) Those who would conduct programmes mentioned in (i) at other centres in the district (i.e. outside the DIET) e.g. personnel from NYK, NFE/AE projects, NGOs, etc. and (b) resource persons for the successful implementation of AE/NFE programmes as a whole e.g. extension functionaries of Development Deptts., community leaders, retired teachers, ex-servicemen, NSS Volunteers, ICDS functionaries, other involved in Mass Programme of Functional Literacy (MPFL), etc.
  3. To provide instructional inputs into (i) core areas of the above programmes e.g. need philosophy, objectives, methodology, evaluation, problems, etc. in NFE/AE, and (ii) teaching of such individual subjects/areas as the staff may have necessary background in, especially teaching of language, arithmetic and functional skills.
  4. To evaluate and monitor the quality and efficacy of training programmes for NFE/AE personnel held in and outside the DIET, and to strive for their continuous improvement.
  5. To maintain a data-base on all NFE/AE personnel who undergo training at the Institute, and to organise follow up activities pursuant to such training.
  6. To under take with the help of other concerned branches, the following activities vis-a-vis curriculum, basic and postliteracy teaching-learning material, low cost teaching and evaluation tools for AE/NFE : (i) Adaptation of existing curricular units, teaching learning materials etc. to suit local requirements (ii) Development of new locally relevant items including in widely spoken dialects of the distt.
  7. To undertake field interaction (including extension) work visa-vis the AE/NFE projects and centres in the district, and to act as the referral unit for academic problems thrown up by the field in the areas of AE/NFE.
  8. To help the DBE and AE/NFE authorities in organising media support for the AE/NFE programmes (including by harnessing traditional media).
  9. To undertake action research in all areas relevant for making NFE/AE more effective—in collaboration with other branches, to the extent necessary.
  10. To provide AE/NFE related inputs into all programmes of the Institute not listed above, especially pre-service and in-service education programmes for teachers.