• DR. NANCY GROVER

Training of in-service teachers is vital for their professional growth and development as it boosts up their teaching capabilities and helps them in mastering their teaching skills in an efficient way. It is an analytical study which focusses on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges of training programmes conducted by District Institutes of Education and Training in the state of Himachal Pradesh. A sample of 4 Principals and 51 Teacher Educators of DIETs from four Districts namely, Shimla, Solan, Bilaspur and Kinnaur of Himachal Pradesh was selected and the survey method of research was used. Self-developed questionnaire was used for the present study. It has been found in the present study that the major strengths of in-service teacher training programmes were to enhance professional development among teachers and upgrading skill development of in-service teachers. Lack of motivation among in-service teachers and inadequate human resources were the major weaknesses but these programmes provide opportunities to the in-service teachers by giving favourable situations to them to grow professionally and to learn while they earn. Furthermore, knowing the difference between teaching children versus teaching teachers and transferring extensive and comprehensive knowledge of resource persons to the teacher trainees has proven to be one of the major challenges in the path of training programmes. The current study is of immense significance as it is an analysis of the training programmes to bring best out of them.

Analytical Study, District Institutes of Education & Training (DIETs), Himachal Pradesh, In-service Teacher Training Programmes.

"ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE TRAINING PROGRAMMMES BY DIETs IN HIMACHAL PRADESH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 1, page no.c309-c316, January-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2301238.pdf

"ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE TRAINING PROGRAMMMES BY DIETs IN HIMACHAL PRADESH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 1, page no. ppc309-c316, January-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2301238.pdf