Prof. Saroj Sharma is steering the school to new heights with respects to different dimensions of professional development of teacher Education and addressing quality concerns of the stream.

She has been in the field of teacher education since past 17 years and has varied experience as Lecturer, Reader, and Professor in Education departments of different Institutions and Universities with respect to graduate and post graduate degrees (B.Ed and M.Ed) of Education. She has sound administrative and academic experience. She is member of many educational associations and actively involved in various research projects of UNICEF, UNESCO and other social and cultural forums.

Educational Philosophy, Educational Administration and Planning are her fields of specialization. Organizing Seminars and Workshops on issues of current Education System and Ancient Indian Science are her area of interest. Her important published work comprises various books on Education and several units in Post Graduate Diploma for School Leadership and Management (PGDSLM) and ‘Adolescent and Family Education' & ‘HIV/AIDS Education' units in course books of B.Ed Programme of IGNOU.

She is empanelled as Evaluator in different Universities, NIOS, SCERT, IGNOU and with other Higher Education bodies. She is a subject expert and regular Counsellor & Resource Person of various educational programmes on Radio-Counselling and Teleconferencing through EDU-SAT.
She has expertise in organizing Research Workshops and various Faculty Development and Orientation Programmes. She has been member of various Curriculum-Framework teams at the National and International levels in the field of various strata of School Teaching as well as of Teacher Education. She is keenly interested in various Community Service and SUPW Programmes and its incorporation and implementation in Contemporary Education System.
Presently she is working upon the concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Education Sector ,Total Quality Management(TQM) in Education and Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Governance of Education.
She is in the Advisory and Editorial Boards of many Journals of Education and has contributed a number of articles and research papers in National and International Journals of repute.
She is member of a few reputed Teacher- Education Associations and actively working for the quality concerns in Teacher Education

Academic Vision
1. Innovation & Good practices in Teaching
2. Environmental concerns in Teaching
3. Use of ICT in Teacher Education
4. Preparing Teachers for Inclusive Education
5. Paradigm Shifts in teacher Education infusing National and Global Concerns i.e.-Peace, Gender Issues, Art and Heritage of Crafts Education, Multilingualism, Health, Population etc. in Teacher Education & Curriculum

Research Interest
Developing competence in methodology of conducting research in various fields of teacher education so that it could go a long way in producing reliable & valid thesis with the objectives of:
1. To Develop sound understanding of the methods of research
2. To Understand and verbalize research literature
3. To Develop the ability to construct and use appropriate research tools
4. Highlight various techniques of sampling suitable to different research designs
5. Use of appropriate statistical techniques for data analysis

This vision also aims at providing input in both quantitative as well as qualitative research designs and also of computer programmes like the SPSS for data analysis

USE is devoted to the publication of research journals with papers, of advance knowledge through research & case functional areas of various streams of education at different levels.

Futuristic Approach for School of Education
Innovations related to teaching –learning approaches & methods of teaching in different subjects and the material development for addressing the plural need of students requires further dissemination. Training and re-training of large no. of teachers in India through Distance Education mode needs to be explored.
USE is in view of exploring new dimensions in teacher education related to societal needs and several short term certificate courses and diplomas in fields of contemporary education can be incorporated, so as to reach the grass root level.

Concepts of Public Private Partnership and Mobile Team Teaching can be adopted. Relation with Industries, NGO's and corporate houses can be developed to promote corporate social responsibility initiatives.

Keeping in view of social responsibility of education, several projects can be conceived in collaboration with UNESCO, UNICEF & UNFPA. USE is in process of speeding up of the placement and consultancy services for prospective teachers in a modern techno-savvy way to cater the societal needs.

These plans forecast educational process moving fast towards appropriating, assimilating, predicting and evaluating the essential educational cores which are going to characterize the new pedagogy

And thus, we will be moving perennially towards discovery of new planks of sustainability of quality ethos.