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Dinesh Kumar, Lovely Professional University Unit 12: Selection Criteria for Teachers and Teacher Educators

Unit 12: Selection Criteria for Teachers and Teacher Notes

Educators

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
12.1 Recruitment
12.2 Recruitment Methods
12.3 Selection Criteria for Primary level Teacher
12.4 Teacher Eligibility Test (TET)
12.5 Selection Criteria for Teacher Educators
12.6 Summary
12.7 Keywords
12.8 Review Questions
12.9 Further Readings

Objectives

After reading this unit, students will be able to:
• to discuss about the recruitment.
• to describe about the recruitment.
• to explain about the selection criteria for elementary school teachers.
• to describe about the selection criteria for secondary school teachers.
• to discuss about the teacher eligibility test for all school teachers in India.

Introduction

To select any body for a particular job or post is a crucial process. In case of teachers, this process
becomes more challenging, because education, of children is the most important aspect of education
system. We will discuss about the selection criteria for teachers and teacher educators in this unit,
but before study about this we should also know the process, policies etc.
Teaching and giving education to children in schools is not an easy task, so selection of candidate
for teaching at school is very difficult. There is a great concern about making good teachers in
teacher education institutions. To develop teaching tendency in a right direction is a great
responsibility of teacher educators, so selection of right candidate at these posts is must.

12.1 Recruitment

Recruitment is the development and maintenance of adequate manpower sources. It involves the
creation of a pool of available human resources from which the organisation can draw when it
needs additional employees. Recruiting is the process of attracting applicants with certain skills,
abilities, and other personal characteristics to job vacancies in an organisation. According to
Denerley and Plumblay (1969), recruitment is concerned with both engaging the required number
of people, and measuring their quality. It is not only a matter of satisfying a company’s needs, it
is also an activity which influences the shape of the company’s future. The need for recruitment
may arise out of: (i) vacancies due to promotion, transfer, termination, retirement, permanent
disability, or death; (ii) creation of vacancies due to business expansion, diversification, growth,
and so on.

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