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What is District Institute of Education and Training DIET?
The two significant and fundamental objectives of educational progress in India have been the universalization of primary education and adult literacy. The National Policy on Education (1986) suggested increasing funding for both adult and elementary education. It envisioned a district-level organisation to offer primary schools and adult education facilities academic and resource assistance. The District Institutes of Education and Training (DIET) were founded in each district to provide school instructors with training, research, and educational augmentation. Because of this, the DIET was created to offer pre-service and in-service training for elementary school teachers as well as continuing education for those working in non-formal and adult education programmes.
In accordance with the National Policy on Education’s (1986) guidelines, DIETs were formed in several states “to offer academic and resource support at the grassroots level for the achievement of various methods and activities being conducted in the domains of elementary and adult education.” The bigger approach to accomplish national objectives in the fields of elementary and adult education includes DIETs. As a result, DIETs must perform a role that supplements and complements the functions of other organisations in order to operate.
Academic Branches of DIET
Each DIET includes an administrative division in addition to seven academic divisions.
- preparing future teachers.
- programmes for in-service teachers, interactions with the field, innovation, and extension learning.
- Adult education and non-formal education resource unit for the district.
- Management and planning.
- Technology in education and in-service training programmes.
- work history.
- Curriculum development, creation, and assessment.
Functions of DIET
The goal of the DIET is to offer district-level academic and resource assistance for the accomplishment of different programmes in the field of primary and adult education. The DIET centre has a crucial function to play in establishing the tempo. They might serve as role models for other educational institutions in the district with regard to thorough, successful planning and execution of tasks as well as a positive and innovative work environment.
According to the scheme of action, every DIET must carry out three different sorts of functions (NPE, 1986).
Give training and orientation to the following target groups
- Headteachers, administrators of school districts, and block-level education officers.
- teachers in elementary schools, both pre-service and in-service training.
- instructors and managers of continuing education and non-formal education for adults.
- District Board of Education members, village education committee members, community leaders, young people, and other volunteers who want to serve as educational activists.
- Educators who run programmes that are appropriate for the target audiences specified in the first two points.
The purpose of in-service and continuing education for teachers is to foster in each teacher, to the greatest extent feasible, the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to perform as a competent professional. The National Commission on Teachers suggested giving all teachers the chance to participate in in-depth in-service programmes at least once every five years.
Provide academic and resource support
The districts’ primary and adult education systems receive academic and resource support from the DIET centres as their second purpose.
- Fieldwork interactions and extension efforts.
- giving teachers and instructors access to a learning and resource centre.
- creation of resources, instructional aids, assessment tools, etc. that are pertinent to the local area.
- serving as a centre for evaluating primary schools, non-formal education programmes, and adult education.
One of the main ways to give elementary schools, adult education centres, and non-formal education centres resources and learning assistance is through interaction activities. Through field contact, the DIETs pinpoints real-world issues and develops appropriate solutions. In order to ensure that the necessary information and message reaches the field level of functionaries, it organises extension work in a variety of ways, including regular meetings, seminars, or conferences, the publication of journals, newsletters, pamphlets, brochures, and research abstracts, as well as the distribution of video and audio cassettes, slides, etc.
