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Teacher Education

Notes recommendations which may be summarized as below-
1. There should be 2 years course for non-graduates and one year training course for graduates.
2. The pupil teachers should be trained in one or two extra curriculum activities also.
3. Pupil teachers should be trained in one or two extra curriculum activities also.
4. The commission also stressed the importance of refresher courses, short-term intensive courses
and specialized courses, workshops and conferences for in-service teacher were also considered
necessary.
5. Training colleges should conduct research work.
6. Training departments should be established in the affiliated college too. Training of teachers
should not be the exclusive responsibility of the government.
7. Trained graduates with at least three years teaching experience should be admitted to M.Ed.
course.

Special part time courses for untrained teachers. The first conference for held in
1950 in Usmania University.

National Education Commission (1964-66): The Education Commission under the chairmanship of
D.S. Kothari has pointed out clearly the major weaknesses in the existing system of professional
education. This commission submitted a very comprehensive report on upgrading the education
system in India. Commission made a number of recommendations improve the education system
in the country. This commission first of all examination the whole education system and tried out
to identify what the deficiencies and recorded them and criticized them. As the result of this evaluation
they said-
1. Standards of teacher education were poor and Medicare.
2. Effective alumina association should be established in each training college.
3. The teacher education was isolated from the main stream of academic life.
4. Commission also noted that the training colleges have no competed staff. This may be largely
true even today after many recommendations.
Improving Quality of Teacher Training Programme: The esssence of teacher training programme
is 'quality' and in its absence teacher education became not only financially waste but a source of
overall deterioration in educational standards. Therefore to improve the quality of teacher education
the following recommendations were made—
1. Organization of well planned subject orientation courses for training colleges staff. It is a kind
of short term courses in which teachers are given new knowledge.
2. Introducing integrated courses of general and professional education so that teacher prospects
are not narrowed.
As a result of this recommendation four year courses were started Regional Colleges of Education
in 1963.
3. Using improved methods of teaching (which leave greater scope for self-study and discussion)
and improved method of evaluation (which includes continuous internal assessment of
practical and sectional work as well as practice teaching).
Teaching methods and evaluation system are in-separately bound together. A student will learn
what you want to evaluate. The person learns the kind of behaviour which is rewarded, so it is
necessary that evaluation system should be improved.
As a result of this recommendation Regional colleges have developed more improved evaluation
system like—Rating scales, cooperative evaluation. In this way new things are being practiced in
Regional colleges.

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