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Unit 25 : Teacher Education at Various Levels, Emerging Trends in Teacher Education

• to enable teachers to manage appropriate resources for organising learning experiences of Notes
children.
• to acquaint them with methods and techniques of caring for children with special needs.
• to enable them to acquire necessary skills so as to develop curiosity, imagination and
creativity.
• to develop in them the capacity to understand and analyse the social and emotional
problems.
• to develop communication skills
• to enable them to establish mutually supportive linkages with the community focussing
on the objective of UPE/UEE.
• to enable them to understand implications of research for teaching-learning and undertake
action research and use innovative practices.
• to enable them to organise games, sports, physical activities and other co-curriculur
activities.
Keeping in view the teacher profile particularly the facilitative and resource management aspects,
general and specific objectives of teacher education, the following framework which is flexible
with ample scope for adaptation and for making it relevant to local enviornment is being
suggested :
25.3.2 Curriculum Framework
Theory
• Emerging Indian Society
• Primary Education in India : status, problems and issues
• Psychology of Teaching and Learning with special reference to children of age group 6-11
years
• Assessment, Evaluation and remedial teaching
• Health and Physical Education
• School Management
• Education of Children with Special Needs
• Guidance and Counselling
• Content Areas for Primary Schools
• Action Research
Practice Teaching
• Pedagogical Analysis of Primary School Subjects
• Practice Teaching in Schools
• Observation of Model Lessons
Practical Work
• School Experience inclusive of Internship
• Work Education
• School-Community Interaction
• Action Research Studies (planning and execution)
• Organisation of relevant Educational Activities
In the proposed training programmes, the prospective teachers would be imparted training in
a manner that theory and practice are organically integrated. Correlation within the curricular
areas of learning and external environment is established. Psychology of Teaching and Learning,

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