About Us
Introduction
As per the provisions of NPE-1986, DIETs were established to organize pre-service and in-service courses for elementary school teachers and for the personnel working in non-formal and adult education.
Design
DIETs are a part of a larger strategy to achieve national goals in the areas of elementary and adult education and function according to the needs of individual states & districts.
Pace-Setting Role
Pursuit of excellence would have to inform all activities of the DIETs. In this context, it will have two interrelated aspects:
❖Excellence in the Institute’s own work.
❖Helping the foundational to secondary education systems in the district in achieving excellence in the light of NEP 2020.
In this context, DIETs would have a very important pace-setting role to play. They are expected to become models for other educational institutions in the district in terms of meticulous, efficient and effective planning and execution of functions, harmonious and creative organizational climate and maintenance of a clean and attractive campus.
Linkages
Every DIET should establish a close and continuing dialogue with the field, i.e. with elementary schools (now foundational to secondary schools in the district in the light of NEP 2020), school complexes, teachers, headmasters, school supervisors, instructors/supervisors/project officers of NFE/AE anganwadi workers and functionaries of ICDS department pertaining to pre-primary education/ECCE and with district level officers of these sectors and with organizations and institutes at the national, state, division and district levels whose objectives and interests converge with its own.
❖At the Division & District levels: NGOs, department of education of the university, secondary teacher education institutions (colleges of teacher education), IASE, local radio stations, etc.
❖At the state level: SCERT, SIEMT, SRC for adult education, NGOs, etc.
❖At the National level: NCERT (NIE, concerned RIE, CIET, CIVE), NUEPA, CCRT, NGOs working in the area of elementary (now foundational to secondary education systems in the district in the light of NEP 2020) and adult education.
Organizational Structure of DIET
There are seven departments/wings/units/academic branches in a DIET which are as follows:
❖Department of Pre-service Teacher Education (PSTE).
❖Department of In-service programmes, Field Interaction , Innovation Coordination(IFIC).
❖District Resource Unit (DRU) for adult and Non-formal education .
❖Department of Work Experience (WE) .
❖Department of Curriculum, Material Development and Evaluation (CMDE).
❖Department of Educational Technology (ET).
❖Department of Planning and Management (P&M).
