Perception of Stakeholders of Elementary Education about Quality of Learning Materials of In-service Training Programme

The quality of citizens of the country depends upon the quality of education. The quality of their education depends, more than any other single factor, upon the quality of their teachers. The teacher education programme is divided into pre-service and in-service teacher education. Both are important at their own place. In-service training plays a vital role in sharpening the philosophical, psychological and sociological ideologies with current innovative concepts. The RTE-SSA, being the flagship programme of Government of India, have been putting the best efforts to impart minimum 20 days in-service training to all the elementary school teachers on different subjects and themes. The state authorities have a major role to play in this regard. The stakeholders such as teachers, trainers, supervisory personnel perceive such programme in different angle. The researcher has made an attempt to study, the perception of teachers and trainers on the quality of learning material, training kit and other equipments available in the training centres. The data were collected through separate questionnaires and analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The finding revealed that the learning materials, training packages are of good quality and there was provision of such material for both teachers and trainers. Only ICT equipments were not available in the training centres. The readers can get more clarity from the present paper.