The major academic roles of BRCs/URCs & CRCs
• Development of the centre as a rich academic resource with ample reference materials
for the teachers.
• Development of strong human resource pools (by inviting resource persons) from
nearby teacher education institutions, NGOs, Colleges/Universities and resourceful
individuals to form Resource Groups in different subject areas for primary and upper
primary level.
• Regular school visits for addressing emerging pedagogic issues and issues related to
school development.
• Organization of teacher training and monthly meetings to discuss academic issues
and design strategies for better school performance.
• Setting up of performance indicators to track and enhance school performance.
• Consultation with community members and Panchayat Raj, Institutions to strive for
school improvement.
• Designing a Quality Improvement Plan for the block/cluster as per the SSA goals and
strive to achieve that in a time bound manner.
• Monitoring the progress of Quality using Quality Monitoring Tools in Collaboration
with nearby DIET.
• Making awareness on Achievement of children in school and block level on NAS and
SLAS
The tasks of CRC coordinators include providing constant support to the teachers,
monitoring their performance, identifying their needs both in formal schools and special
training centers and liaising with the SDMCs the community and NGOs working in the area
of education. Monthly meetings at cluster level are held and periodic visits to schools are
made by CRC Coordinators to monitor teachers’ performance and to provide them on-site
support.
In a nutshell, role of BRC/CRC is a mixed set of academic, supervisory managerial,
networking and creative activities; it goes beyond routine monitoring and supervision work
as it encompasses providing support to schools and teachers through teacher training and
teacher mentoring for their professional growth, strengthening community-school linkage,
providing resource support and carrying out action research.
In addition administrators in the system use the services of BRTEs for multifarious
administrative activities as they are easily available work force with resource.
• Development of the centre as a rich academic resource with ample reference materials
for the teachers.
• Development of strong human resource pools (by inviting resource persons) from
nearby teacher education institutions, NGOs, Colleges/Universities and resourceful
individuals to form Resource Groups in different subject areas for primary and upper
primary level.
• Regular school visits for addressing emerging pedagogic issues and issues related to
school development.
• Organization of teacher training and monthly meetings to discuss academic issues
and design strategies for better school performance.
• Setting up of performance indicators to track and enhance school performance.
• Consultation with community members and Panchayat Raj, Institutions to strive for
school improvement.
• Designing a Quality Improvement Plan for the block/cluster as per the SSA goals and
strive to achieve that in a time bound manner.
• Monitoring the progress of Quality using Quality Monitoring Tools in Collaboration
with nearby DIET.
• Making awareness on Achievement of children in school and block level on NAS and
SLAS
The tasks of CRC coordinators include providing constant support to the teachers,
monitoring their performance, identifying their needs both in formal schools and special
training centers and liaising with the SDMCs the community and NGOs working in the area
of education. Monthly meetings at cluster level are held and periodic visits to schools are
made by CRC Coordinators to monitor teachers’ performance and to provide them on-site
support.
In a nutshell, role of BRC/CRC is a mixed set of academic, supervisory managerial,
networking and creative activities; it goes beyond routine monitoring and supervision work
as it encompasses providing support to schools and teachers through teacher training and
teacher mentoring for their professional growth, strengthening community-school linkage,
providing resource support and carrying out action research.
In addition administrators in the system use the services of BRTEs for multifarious
administrative activities as they are easily available work force with resource.
