A Digital Equalizer (DE) review meeting was held on the 13^th of May, 2011 in the DE State Resource Centre (SRC), SCERT, Bhubaneswar. The Meeting started at 10.00 am and ended at 6.00 pm.

The meeting was attended by the following participants:

J. Sundarakrishnan, Director, Digtal Equalizer Program, AIFT

Subrat Sarkar SPM, Digital Equalizer Program, AIFT, Orissa

Anup Mohanty Zonal Coordinator

Santanu Kumar Mishra Trainer, SCERT, Bhubaneswar

Gulty Rath Trainer, SCERT, Bhubaneswar

Mrutunjay Mishra Trainer, RNIASE, Cuttack

Sanjay Biswal Trainer, PMIASE, Sambalpur

Shanti Bhusan Padhi Trainer, DPIASE, Berhampur

Manoranjan Bhoi Trainer, DIET, Dolipur

Mohan Chand Padhan Trainer, DIET, Sambalpur

Chinmaya Kumar Sahoo Trainer, DIET, Khallikote

Pankaj Kumar Pati Monitoring Expert, Sambalpur & Bargarh

Jyoti Prakash Sahu Monitoring Expert, Ganjam & Gajapati

Soumya Ranjan Rout Monitoring Expert, Kendrapada

The following issues were discussed as part of the meeting:

The core objectives of the program were discussed by Director, DE.
The main advantage of having this new model (Centralised Resource Centre Training Model) was highlighted by the Director.

Zone wise presentations were made by trainers and concerned monitoring expert.
Zone wise training status and output indicators were discussed threadbare.
Director laid stress on the initiatives we can incorporate to achieve our output indicators at the school level.
Director focused mainly on field level issues such as teacher training and support at the school level by the monitoring expert.

The following decisions were taken as part of the meeting:

Effective utilisation of the time by the monitoring expert spent at the school level. This presupposes a thorough planning on the part of the coordinators before they start visiting a particular school.
Monitoring expert to give time to classroom observation to validate whether the concerned teacher is imparting pedagogy sections effectively.

Sensitization workshops for teacher facilitators to be conducted at the Zonal Resource Centres by the monitoring experts, on a monthly basis .

The SCERT Trainers were instructed to conduct workshops (Value Addition in integrating technology in teaching) for the Teacher Educators at the respective Zonal Centres after the completion of 18 days of training at SRC.

The teacher educators of the six zonal centres to conduct training sessions for teacher trainees undergoing training at the Zonal Resource Centres(ZRC).

Zone wise competition for trained teachers designing good projects and conducting lab transactions.
Monitoring experts shall make a register and make a note of student’s (rand picked) views on the DE Program.
Monitoring experts will make a note of how students are conducting lab transactions in presence of the teacher.
Monitoring expert will observe as to how teachers are conducting lab transactions effectively using EDUKIT.
The Coordinators were asked to make DST and submit it by 3^rd of July.