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Kulwinder Pal, Lovely Professional University Unit 25 : Teacher Education at Various Levels, Emerging Trends in Teacher Education

Unit 25 : Teacher Education at Various Levels, Notes

Emerging Trends in Teacher Education

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
25.1 Teacher Education
25.2 Teacher Education for Early Childhood Stage
25.3 Elementary Teacher Education Curriculum Framework
25.4 Teacher Education at Secondary Stage
25.5 Teacher Education for Senior Secondary Stage
25.6 Teacher Education at Higher (College) Level
25.7 Summary
25.8 Keywords
25.9 Review Questions
25.10 Further Readings

Objectives

The objectives of this unit can be summarized as below:
• to discuss about teacher edudcation
• to discuss about teacher education at early chilldhood care education
• to describe the teacher education at elementary level
• to explain the teacher education at secondary level
• to discuss the teacher education at senior secondary level
• to describe the teacher education at higher (college) level

Introduction
Teacher education reaches teachers at all levels of education, namely Pre-primary, Primary,
Elementary, Secondary, Higher Secondary and the Tertiary. The needs requirements of students
and education very at each level. Hence level and stage-specific teacher prepartion is essential.
Teacher education also helps in the development of teaching skills in teachers of professional
institutions. The teachers in professional institutions have only the theoretical and practical
knowledge of their respective subjects. They require specialized teacher training inputs to deal
with students entering their professions. Teacher education also reaches special education and
physical education. Thus where there are teachers, there would be teacher education. The
knowledge base is adequately specialized and diversified across stages, in order to develop
effective processes of preparing entrant teachers for the functions which a teacher is expected to
perform at each stage.

25.1 Teacher Education

Teacher education is an integral component of the educational system. It is intimately connected
with society and is conditioned by the ethos, culture and character of a nation. The constitutional

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