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Unit 23 : Teacher Education: Concept and Importance

23.3 Need for Teacher-training Notes

Training is necessary for efficient work in a particular job. If we appoint a person in any job
after sometime through apprentice he will be quite competent for that job. If a person is trained
before employing him in a job-this is called pre-training. This pre-training is very important.
Without providing any training if we employ a person in a job then it is risky because he does
not have any knowledge about the machine, when a person failures in a job he develops the
negative attitude towards the job and thinks that he is not competent for that job. Therefore the
pre-training is must. By having some training he will get success in his job with full satisfaction.
There is need for training in general:
1. In order to perform the job successfully and effectively.
2. It is seen that a trained person learns effectively in a lesser time then untrained person. A
person can learn these things (K/A/S/BP) without training also when he is in job but
efforts and time will go waste and he may learn many irrelevant things also.
3. More complex jobs require more specific knowledge, attitude, and skills and behaviour
patterns that more specificity is there hence training is more important in these jobs. The
risk is involved if he learns on job even it may cause danger to his life also and secondly
trial and error results into wastage of time and energy. A good deal of waste is teacher
efforts can be saved through training.
4. Organized and systematic programme of training make them to learn easily in a more
efficient way and in lesser time.
5. If here is no specificity of objectives K.A.S.S. for a job then there is no need of training but
for every job certain specific K/A/S/BP are required. Therefore, training is necessary for
all kinds of job.
23.3.1 Need for Training in Teaching
Certain people, who are not favour of training hold, the view that there is no need of training
for the teachers, only they should have mastery over the subject because there is no significant
difference found in teaching of training and untrained person.
Theoretically it is not right. Training is essential for every teacher trained teachers can do much
more than untrained teachers. There may be so many reasons for that why they do not perform
their work effectively. Demand of job/profession, the objective and expectations from a teacher
certify the existence of teacher training.
To have mastery over subject matter and to communicate this to students are quite different.
Many skills are needed to communicate the information effectively e.g., skill of questioning
illustrating, demonstrating and explaining, etc., other skills which may be required are skill of
arranging and logically sequencing the subject-matter.
23.3.2 Need for Training in Teaching for College Teachers
Need for training for primary and secondary teachers has been emphasized by many commission
and committees but there are few who realize the need for training the college teachers also.
In the past it had been advocated the need for high-school and junior high-school teacher
training and for degree colleges there is no need of training. But now-a-days, a feeling is
growing up in the circle of top educationists that there should be need for training for college
teachers also. The idea has been propagated by top educators particularly by N.C.T.E. But prior
to this U.G.C. has also organized certain type of orientation programme for college teachers. In
the beginning there was a great resistance of this idea. Now more and more people working in
universities and professional colleges are accepting this idea and advocating the need for training.
Actually, the whole universe of teachers in the country is divided into two groups:
1. The training does not make a person more effective.

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