There was a need of creating a database for the programmes conducted by NERIE and NCERT as the information related to the programmes could be immensely helpful to the stakeholders. The plan was to create not only the database but also to make a sharing and feedback mechanism. The dynamic website would help the purpose to keep track of the programmes and to interact with all users/stakeholders. A planning meeting was conducted with the NIC, Meghalaya and NERIE officials. In the meeting it was decided that the NIC, Meghalaya will give a full proposal of the project of making the website after submission of the needs/requirements by NERIE. The proposal of NIC, Meghalaya was received and NIC, Meghalaya was entrusted to develop the website. The probable time of completion is before March, 2019. The budget has been transferred in full to NIC, Meghalaya. NERIE will be intimated time to time about the development of the project.

NERIE was equipped with a fully functional studio similar to the facilities available in other RIEs. The proposal for developing the e-resources was submitted to PAC as creating digital content is one of the foremost needs in school education. The proposal is thus started in the facility of NERIE studio by the coordinator, Mr. Arnab Sen, Assistant Professor. The project has 5 posts namely Technical Coordinator, Producer, Production Assistant, Engineering Assistant and one MTS. Studio under the said project has been involved in developing many resources in Science, Social Science and other educational videos.
Some of the videos are as follows:
Science:
1) Chapter-13: Why do we fall Ill?
2) Chapter-2: Matter in our Surroundings (part-1)
3) Chapter-2: Matter in our surroundings (part-2)
4) Chapter-4: Structure of the atom (Thomson's model of an atom)
5) Chapter-4: Structure of the atom (Rutherford's model of an atom)
6) Chapter-4: Structure of the atom (Bohr's model of an atom)
7) Chapter - 11: Work and Energy (part-1)
8) Chapter -9: Force and laws of Motion (part-1)
9) Chapter -9: Force and Laws of Motion (Part-2)
10) Chapter -9: Force and Laws of Motion (Part-3)
11) Chapter -9: Force and Laws of Motion (Part-4)

Social Science:
1) Chapter 6: Democratic rights
2) Chapter 2: Physical features of India
3) Chapter 5: Natural vegetation and wildlife
4) Chapter 4: Climate
5) India size and Location [Chapter 1]
6. Section III: Everyday Life, Culture & Politics

Other videos:
1. Children story writing workshop
2. International Forestry Celebration
3. International Bio-diversity Day
4. National Environment Day
5. B.Ed Students Internship Final Report
6. International Yoga Day
7. Audio Visual workshop
8. A study factors contributing to student Absenteeism at elementary School level in Tribal Concentrated areas in Tripura
9. Orientation of faculty members on development of E-content
10. 10 Days workshop on Compilation of Sign Language Stories/Folktales in NE Region
11. NERIE Foundation Day
12. Teacher’s Day celebration
13. Recording of Lullaby, Rhyme &Recitation of Story of various Tribe
14. Swach Bharat Pakhwara in umiam
15. Training of Teachers of teaching, learning in multi lingual class at the primary level for North East
16. Student conference on Environment, forest, climate change and disaster management
17. Training of master trainers on teaching learning of science with special focus on activities and projects at elementary level for the north eastern states
18. National seminar on Mathematics Education
19. Orientation cum training on e-resources for key resource persons at the secondary level organised by RMSA cell, NERIE in collaboration with CIET , NCERT, New Delhi
20. National Seminar on mental health of school children
21. Shooting on WebApp sign language videos
22. Training of key resource persons on research methodology for the states of Mizoram and Meghalaya
23. Training of Master Teachers of Sikkim on question paper setting at upper primary level
24. Encouraging literary skills : A compilation of children’s stories for classroom integration
25. International mother language day “Matri Bhasha Diwas”
26. National science day “Science and Technology for Sustainable future”
27. Development of activity based on Teacher’s handbook in science for the state of Arunachal Pradesh at secondary level- phase 2
28. Recording on Sign Language
29. Narration of Folktales in the context of North Eastern Region

The main objective of the program was to develop interactive educational software for reading Meetei Mayek (Manipuri Script) by children with learning problems. Two workshops were conducted firstly, workshop on simplification of the content presentation and adaptations to the teaching techniques & strategies for reading Meetei Mayek by children with Learning Problems from 30 May to 6 June, 2017. Secondly, workshop on preparation of audio and image content, and programme framing from 27 June to 7 July, 2017 at SCERT. As a outcome from the two workshops required content and structure for developing the programme is ready. It consists of e-learning and e-learning applications. A total of 11 tasks are prepared for the purpose of identification of Mayek. However, due to non receiving of the quotations from the competent firms the last activity of the program i.e. development of the programme couldn’t be completed.

The programme entitled ‘Development of Institutional Repository at NERIE’ was proposed with three objectives they are
i) to document and preserve the academic output of the institute,
ii) to provide a central archive of the works of the Institute, and
iii) to maximize the visibility and availability of the output of the Institute. Coordinator of the programme was Mr. B. Umesh Kumar Sharma, Asst. Professor. One Junior Project Fellowship was identified and appointed for three month by competent authority. Faculty meeting was organized to discuss about the requirements and contributions to be made by the faculty members. The System was created under five domains viz. community, author, subject, category, date & year. During the period ten documents were arranged and uploaded into the system. As it is at initial stage, basic requirements are yet to be established; therefore the documents are not placed in public domain

This program was proposed based on the need identified by the state in the State Coordinating Committee (SCC) meeting with the educational functionaries of Arunachal Pradesh. The state needs to improve the quality of Science Education which will in turn motivate the students in learning Science. Moreover, NCF 2005 emphasis more on learning without cramming, going beyond text books by relating the concepts to real life examples. Also, many teachers are facing problems in transacting the scientific concepts to the students. Keeping in view of these, the state requested NERIE to develop an activity based teacher’s hand book on Science which will enhance the teachers' competency in transacting scientific concepts through hands on experience and hence will improve the Science education scenario of the state.
The objectives are
(i) To develop detailed guidelines on the importance of activities and projects in teaching – learning of Science
(ii) To provide practical experience to the teachers in using locally available materials as teaching aids and stimulate their interests in scientific inquiry
(iii)To empower them with the Science process skills and scientific methodology
(iv)To enhance competency of the teachers towards activity based learning through hands on experience including the use of locally available materials of Arunachal Pradesh. The programme was conducted in Workshop mode (Phase-I & II): 10-days Workshop with the state officials and resource persons to finalize the content of the hand book and planning of dissemination of the book among the science teachers of the States. Phase I was conducted from 11th – 15th September 2017 with 5 number of participants and Phase II was conducted from 5th – 9th March 2018 with 7 number of participants.

This programme is an ongoing programme, the first workshop on story writing was completed in the month of March, 2017. This programme was proposed due to the dearth of children’s literature (i.e. apart from folktales, biographies, and short stories) in the NE region that can motivate children to read. Children are often interested in narrating and making their own stories that depict their understanding of the world around them based on their individual experiences and observations. The objectives of this programme are to integrate stories written by children in classroom reading materials and to promote reading culture in children.

A local/region specific source book on CCE for elementary school teachers was developed. The main objectives were to develop a source book on CCE incorporating local/region specific content for the state of Sikkim and to document best practices in CCE in the source book. The main clientele group was the teachers teaching in elementary level. The developed material gives an insight to the teachers to effectively make evaluation and integral part of the teaching-learning process. The material has been made local specific and the books of Sikkim Government were taken into account for developing the exemplary materials.

The ‘Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan’ (RAA) is planned to provide nourishing and nurturing support to schools and a platform for schools in a dual track approach to make Science, Mathematics and Technology exciting to children and encourage them to have an enduring interest both inside classroom and outside classroom activities. To realise this goal in the North Eastern Region a Workshop was organised in NERIE, on 24th and 25th February, 2016 with all the Nodal Officers of North Eastern States. The objective of the workshop is to evolve - ‘Guidelines’ to form State Resource Group (SRG) for States of the region, ‘List of activities as exemplar material’ i.e., the activities to be undertaken and the strategies to be adopted by States to successfully roll out the major interventions suggested in RAA book. The clientele group is for children from 6 to 18 years. During the two day workshop and in consultation with all the stakeholders of the State, the State Resource Group (SRG) for RAA was recommended. The SRG would play a critical role in guiding the RAA programme to meet the objectives of the scheme in quality improvements in Elementary Education. The Terms of Reference for the SRG was also proposed. Besides these, various other activities were planned to achieve the objectives of the scheme. Initiatives to encourage Science and Mathematics through Alternative Strategies were the major thrust area of the workshop. School Mentoring; Promotion of Science and Mathematics Teacher Circles; Science, Mathematics and Technology Clubs for Children; Participation of students in inter school / state / national science and mathematics exhibition / competitions / olympiads, etc. were a few areas which were deliberated at length. The workshop ended with recommendations for national workshop in all the components.

The main objective of the programme was to develop a Bridge Material for Primary Classes from the Kom, Tangkhul and Ruangmei language to Manipuri, the state language. In the state of Manipur, Manipuri is the medium of instruction in the government schools and the books are also published in this language. Therefore, the children have to face the problem of switching to the school language both as a medium of instruction as well as the language of the textbook. The purpose of this bridge material is to make the children familiar to the school language in a graded manner. Here in this context the tribal child has to use the book prescribed by Board of Secondary Education alongside with the Bridge Material. Through this Bridge material Kom, Tangkhul and Ruangmei language speaking children can have the opportunity to study certain chapters in their own tribal language. Various chapters were selected from the Mathematics and Environmental Studies books (Manipuri medium books) and translated and adapted in Tribal Languages for classes I, II, III, IV and V in the following proportion: 100%, 80%, 60%, 40% and 20% respectively. The bridge material is of two kinds one for the Mathematics and the other for the Environmental studies.
The mathematics Bridge Material has the following scheme:
Class I –Solely in tribal language, class II has 6, Class III has 7, Class IV has 5 and Class V has 4 lessons respectively in tribal language the rest of the chapters are in Manipuri. The Environmental Studies Bridge Material has the following scheme:
Class III has 15 lessons and 14 lessons each for Class IV and V in Tribal language and accordingly Manipuri lessons are 13, 15 1nd 20 lessons respectively for class III, IV and V.

Supplementary reading materials in the form of compilation of Folktales of NER of India were developed for Children of Grade I and II - under SSA. The objective of this material is to serve as a good source for literacy development of Children. The folktales comprised of seven States of North Eastern Region and from each State only one tribe was selected. From each tribe ten folktales were collected and compiled. These tribes are Boro from Assam, Nyshi from Arunachal Pradesh, Tangkhul from Manipur, Garoffrom Meghalaya, Mizo from Mizoram, Angami from Nagaland and Kokborok from Tripura.

Development of Institutional Repository at NERIE has been proposed with three objectives: i) to document and preserve the academic output of the institute, ii) to provide a central archive of the works of the Institute, and iii) to maximize the visibility and availability of the output of the Institute. Several meeting for the team members were held and organized a workshop entitled ‘Planning for Development of Institutional Repository System at NERIE’. At the end of the workshop a complete picture of the requirements under six heading are came up as the recommendations, they are, i) Requirement analysis, ii) Developing policies, iii) Designing, iv) Implementation, v) Testing, and vi) Maintenance.

Training materials for the three month certificate course for primary school teachers on education of children with learning problems were developed in a workshop. A total of nine experts involved in the preparation of the training materials from various fields, viz. Intellectual Disability, Visual Impairment, Hearing Impairment, Physical Impairment, Autism, Learning Disability, and Behaviour management. During the workshop it was discussed and agreed to prepare four modules. They are, i) Introduction to students with Learning Problems, ii) Screening & Identification, and Assessment of Students with Learning Problems (SWLP), iii) Management of SWLP, and iv) Practicum – Training for Identification & Management of SWLP. All the modules will have different sub headings viz. Introduction, Content Body, Learning Objectives, Activities, Unit Summary, Self-check exercises, Answer Keys and references. The materials are ready for implementation and will be implemented on trial basis in coming days

Training of Master Teachers of Sikkim on Question Paper Setting at Upper Primary Level was conducted at NERIE, Shillong from 12-16 February 2018. The programme was attended by 24 eachers, Language Coordinators, Textbook Officers of HRDD Sikkim. In the programme Dr. Kh. Dineshkumar Singh, Associate Prof. DMCTE, Imphal, Dr. W. Jyotirmoi Singh, Associate Prof. DMCTE, Imphal. Dr. Minati Paul, Sr. Lecturer DIET, Bongaigaon, Dr. Prachi Ghildyal, NERIE along with the coordinator discussed about Examination reform, CCE, Instructional objectives and evaluation, setting of questions: type of question, development of blue print, design of question, writing scoring key, items etc. All the participants in groups could develop question papers in the programme. The clientele group of the programme is the teachers and language coordinators HRDD Sikkim.

The major objective of the programme was to draft training module and organize three month certificate program for primary school teachers on education of CWSN. A workshop was organized from 11 to 15 September, 2017 at NERIE. Four experts were physically present during the workshop and other three experts were joined and shared their expertise through tele conferencing. Contents were collected from the experts and ready for editing work for print. Organization of the training is proposed for the year 2018-19.

The purpose of the program was to sensitize the KRPs on Screening & identification, uniqueness of students and planning & implementation of lessons with appropriate TLMs for teaching children with Special Needs in Inclusive Classroom. The program organized at NERIE from 4 to 14 January, 2018. A total of 11 participants from three states viz. Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Meghalaya were attended. There were explained theoretical concepts related to CWSN and Inclusive education and also exposed to inclusive and special schools for relating the discussed theoretical concepts and better understanding the concepts of organizing and planning for inclusive classroom.

In a progressive and forwarding looking society, Science plays a liberating role helping people escape from the vicious cycles of poverty, ignorance and superstition. Science education being an important component of the education system contributes in to the solutions of the national problems through development of desirable qualities, understanding, skills, abilities, etc; among the people. Teaching of Science not only makes students ready for many professions but also for gives training on scientific methods and development of scientific attitudes. According to National Education Policy (NPE 1986) Science should be taught in such a way that it promotes inquisitiveness, creativity and curiosity. The National Curriculum Framework (NCF-2005) observed that to enhance to enhance the quality of science learning, to correct the distortion in educational aims, the curriculum transaction must give more importance in connecting knowledge to life outside the school and going beyond textbooks. In fact, learning through activities make the teaching – learning process more interesting and motivating. Moreover, it reduces stress among the children and makes them fear free from examinations. The main objective of the programme was to acquaint the Participants about the need and importance of activities and projects in Science Education, To empower them with the Science process skills and scientific methodology, To provide practical experience through hands on activities and designing projects, To enhance the competency in teaching – learning of science through activity based learning and hands on experience. The programme was conducted in experiential mode with theoretical inputs from the experts on relevant topics. The methodology adopted was lecture followed by discussions, demonstrations, interactions with the experts and hand on experience through activities

The training programme was carried out for five days from 24th – 28th October, 2016 to acquaint the master trainers with the reform type of questions in terms of language, scope, score and length and also to provide practical guidance to the trainers on the techniques of teaching and testing higher mental abilities. A total of 21 college teachers attended the programme. The focus area of the training were preparation of design and blueprint, writing and assembling questions, preparation of scoring key, question wise analysis and moderation of question paper. During the training, blue print for different subjects for class X along with respective question papers for different sections detailing the type, weightage, score and time period for each type of questions and question-wise analysis sheet were prepared. The subjects were English, Manipuri, mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry, geography, political science, history and economics. All the participants suggested to conduct such programmes at regular interval since the programme was found to be helpful to them technically.

The training programme was organized at SCERT, Chaltlang to provide an exposure to the participants in regard of the activity as per the modules on the related sectors as well as the functioning and infrastructural requirements in real work situations. During the training more emphasis were on hands on experience through field visit to the related organizations namely RIPANS, Theological college and NIT, Aizawl. It was preceeded by a thorough input in theoretical background on the first day. Exemplar demonstration and hands on activities were as per the needs identified by the participants as per the module developed by PSSCIVE, Bhopal. Some other sessions were hypertext transfer protocol, were browsed, world wide web, e-commerce, online shopping, email, installation of windows 7, ubuntu, classroom management, hardware maintenance etc.in IT while basic and advance First aid, wound with the associated operational structures in healthcare sector.

Training Programme in Geography for the KRP's of the State of Sikkim" was conducted from 5 to 9 Dec. 2016 at NERIE Umiam, Shillong. The Programme was attended by PGT Geography 14 Participants deputed by the SCERT Sikkim, Gangtok. Dr. Uttam Lal, Asst. Professor in Geography acted as resource person came from the Central University Sikkim, and other NERIE -NCERT, Umiam, Shillong faculty engaged the different sessions in the training programme. Along with the Programme Coordinator Mr. R. A. Singh, Asst. Professor in Geography the participants visited the North Eastern Space Application Centre, Umiam, Dept. Of Space, ISRO, Govt. of India at Ri-Bhoi for the practical and recent development in Geo Space Technological aspects of Geography. The last day programme was concluded by issuing the participation certificates to all the participants by programme coordinator followed by valedictory with vote of thanks form KRPs, Sikkim, State of Sikkim.

It was held at the Conference Hall of SCERT, Mizoram from 13th to 17th Feb 2017. The programme was attended by 23 SCERT faculty members, DIET faculty member and teachers. In the programme Dr. Ph. Brajayanti Devi, Dr. C.V. Shimray, Dr. Tulika Dey and Dr. Ch. Sarajubala have attended as resource person. The topics delivered and discussed in the training were on the Project Books of NCERT and sustainable development the participants developed 4 projects as a part of the training. There was a visit on the dumping place of solid waste in the state and prepared a report on a better way of solid waste management in the state. The clientele group of the programme is the DIET/SCERT faculty members and school teachers.

This program was proposed based on the need identified by the state in the State Coordinating Committee (SCC) meeting with the educational functionaries of Tripura. This was held in SCERT, Agartala from 16-20 January, 2017 and Sri Ratish Majumder, the Director, SCERT, Tripura was the Honorary Director of the programme. The main objectives were, to build pedagogical competency of the teachers to develop activity/ experimental skills of students of secondary level, to orient participants for using science and mathematics kit at secondary stage, and to orient participants for integrating ICT in classroom teaching-learning process for transacting the concepts. science and mathematics teachers of secondary schools of Tripura and RMSA persons who are dealing with science and mathematics subjects were invited in the program as participants. In the program, the KRPs were oriented to use activity based teaching learning using Kits and also ICT. The program got a good response from the participant.

The programme was proposed for all 8 North Eastern States. Secondary school teachers who are teaching science and mathematics were invited. But there were participation from Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Mizoram only. The main objectives of the programme were, to identify activities based on the topics of secondary level text books, to orient the KRPs (secondary science and mathematics teachers) on activity based teaching-learning, and to enhance competency of the teachers towards activities, experiments by using the science and mathematics kits. There were parallel sessions on Science and Mathematics where Participants were exposed to Science and Mathematics kits developed by NCERT for secondary level.

A three month certificate course entitled ‘Certificate course for primary school teachers on education of children with Special Needs’ was proposed by Mr. B. Umesh Kumar Sharma, Asst. Professor in Special Education as Coordinator. On the basis of the identified and planned modules viz, i) Introduction to Children with Special Needs, ii) Screening & Identification, and Assessment of Children with Special Needs, iii) Management of Children with Special Needs, and iv) Practicum – Training for Identification & Management of Children with Special Needs, eight Experts from various disabilities field were identified and approached for writing course materials. As per the suggestions from experts, materials i.e. guideline and module outline for the preparation of training materials have sent to them so that they can prepare at their own place and send the written content to the coordinator for preliminary round. Some of the experts have sent their written content to the coordinator, remarks and feedback also sent back accordingly. A workshop on compilation and final drafting the training materials will be organized during the FY 2017-18 and try out also will be carried out.

A training programme entitled ‘Training for KRPs on management of CWSN in Inclusive School at Elementary Level’ was conducted from 30 January to 6 February, 2017, at NERIE, Umiam, Shillong. The Coordinator of the programme was Mr. B. Umesh Kumar Sharma, Asst. Professor in Special Education. The programme was conducted with three objectives viz. a) to sensitize the KRPs on identification of children with Special Needs, b) to acquaint the KRPs with uniqueness of students with Special Needs in learning process, and c) to prepare KRPs for planning and implementation of lessons with appropriate TLMs for teaching children with Special Needs in Inclusive classroom. A total of 28 participants were registered and attend the programme. Around ten themes related to the inclusive education were covered during the programme. Participants were facilitated by five resource persons during theoretical and practical sessions. They were exposed to Ferrando Speech and Hearing, Centre, Ri-Bhoi, Meghalaya. At the end of the programme Participants expressed their willingness and plan for developing special programme for training teachers on management of children with special needs at their states and expressed their satisfaction and improved learnt skills from the programme.