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Unit 25: Teacher Education and Teacher Freezingness

do not have the requisite motivation and the academic background for a well deserved entry in Notes
the teaching profession. Therefore they remain indifferent to work and studies. In some states the
girls because of their merit get admitted in a sizeable proportion though they never enter into
the teaching profession and are not willing to server in the rural areas. This has created the
problem of untrained teacher backlog. In some of the states the female teachers are available for
being hired on considerably reduced rates of emoluments.
Lack of Proper Facilities: In India, the teacher education programme is being given a step-
motherly treatment. About 20 per cent of the teacher education institutions are being run in
rented buildings without any facility for an experimental school or laboratory, library and other
equipments necessary for a good teacher education department. There are no separate hostel
facilities for student teachers.
Lack of Regulation in Demand and Supply: In majority of cases the State Education Departments
have no control on starting of post-graduate teacher education departments. The teacher education
departments have no data on the basis of which they may work out the desired intake for their
institutions. There is a considerable lag between the demand and the supply of teachers. This has
created the problems of unemployment and under-employment.
lack of Interaction with the Main Academic Stream: As the teacher education departments in the
states are fcut off and isolated, they cannot function as models for the University Departments.
Other university departments treat the teacher training section as something inferior. They do
not collaborate in any programme sponsored by teacher education section. Teacher education
departments have not been able to make any dent even in such areas as evaluation, teaching
methods and curriculum development.
Inadequate Empirical Research: In India, research in education has been considerably neglected.
Whatever research is being conducted is of a very inferior quality. The teacher education
programmes have not been properly studied by7 undertaking any systematic research.
Unwarranted suggestions based on speculation are the guiding principles in teacher education
programmes.

Using humor in the classroom can enhance student learning by improving
understanding and retention.

Self Assessment
1. Fill in the blanks
(i) ................... is the teacher's inability in psychological social, physical and moral potentialities
of teachers.
(ii) The purpose of .................... is the improvement of instruction in the student teaching
situation.
(iii) Teacher use the ................. of instruction, lecturing and dictating of notes, which increases
to freezingness in teachers.
(iv) In India, the entire teacher education programme is lacking in ........... which is so important
for a sound programme of teacher education.

25.3 Use of Teacher Education in Removing Teacher Freezingness

There are some remedies of teacher education which can remove teacher freezingness
1. The courses of studies both in theory and practice should be reorganised. For this a pragmatic
research should be conducted by some universities to see what is the course structure which
will be helpful for realization of the goals of teacher education. The ratio of theory and
practical work should be specially studied and a special programme should be developed

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