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

Over Reaching Goals / Objectives Notes
Specialized Studies: Language Studies
• Career Preparation
• Global Issues
• Choice Based Optional
Learning Outcomes:
• At the end of this Unit you will be able to
• Analyse the Importances and parameters that helps to prepare curriculum for teacher
education at tertiary level.
• Able to explain the importance of theory and practical aspects of curriculum for teacher
education.
• Able to suggest other components required while framing curriculum.
Need Based curriculum: The primary purpose of teaching education curriculum in our country
is to prepare teacher for the different school levels. The concept of teacher preparation for
higher education has not gathered enough momentum An ideal teacher education curriculum
should be deduced from the professional competencies to be required and the roles to be
performed and the habits attitudes and values to acquire. The great and general complaint
about the school curricula is that they are overloaded. This is often due to the non involvements
of teachers in the process of curriculum development and in the preparation of textual material
and also to the rigid nature of the curriculum document.
Quality Curriculum: The quality curriculum is one which has the potential to realize its stated
objectives with minimum efforts. In this context of teacher education a quality curriculum
stands for its ability to develop professionally competent teachers within the assigned time for
the operation. The quality of curriculum refers to its attributes are in corporated in its
development. As the existing curriculum in higher education is mostly non functional, it ought
to be restructured. At may be well be made to respond to the challenges enumerated to avoid
the pitfalls Apart from the Apex bodies like NCERT and NCET, Curriculum building should be
more democratic in spirit in corporating the suggestions from social workers, psychologists,
eminent persons in the various field.
Self Assessment

2. Fill in the blanks:
(i) The course on ................ develops an insight into the nature of Indian society.
(ii) .................... is to shift the centrality of education from excessive verbalism to practically.
(iii) At present there exists a common programme for the education of teachers for the
secondary and ....................... schools.
(iv) ......................... is a transmission of knowledge and information through predefined
teaching methods and various training programmes.

25.7 Summary
• Teacher education is an integral component of the educational system.
• When India attained freedom, the then existing educational system was accepted as such
because it was thought that an abrupt departure from the same would be disturbing and
destabilising.
• The need for improved levels of educational participation for overall progress is well
recognised. The key role of educational institutions in realising it is reflected in a variety
of initiatives taken to transform the nature and function of education -- both formal as
well as non-formal.

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