Branch

Work Experience

Staffing pattern

• Sr. Lecturer – 1
• Lecturer – 1
• WE Teacher – 1
• Draft Instructor (for a specialised / craft / trade / horticulture etc.)

Service of crafts men, gardener etc. may be engaged on part-time basis.

Funtions

1. To identify locally relevant WE areas, and in cooperation
   with concerned nodal branches, to develop sample curricular
   units, teaching-learning material, low-cost teaching aids
   and evaluation tools/techniques in such areas (Examples
   locally relevant areas would be spinning/weaving/
   dyeing, bamboo work, bee-keeping, chatai-making, etc.)
2. To help educational authorities and elementary schools/
   NFE/AE Centres in planned introduction of Work
   Experience activities in such schools/centres.
3. As back-up to (2) above, to conduct appropriate inservice
   programmes for teachers in the areas of WE.
4. To provide WE-related inputs into all other programmes
   and activities of the Institute e.g. pre-serviced and inservice
   programmes for teachers, training programmes for
   NFE/AE personnel, Field Interaction (including Extension)
   activities, Action Research, etc.
5. To organise activities for cleanliness, upkeep and development
   of the Institute campus—roads, playgrounds, lawns,
   gardens, etc.—and its surroundings, and for basic maintenance
   of Institute furniture and other properties.
6. To organise community service activities and study visits
   to work centres as part of training programmes, and to
   promote such activities on extra-curricular, basis
7. To maintain Workshop/Farm/Garden for WE activities
8. To promote work-related hobbies among trainees of
   the Institute.