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Teacher Education

Notes • team-Based Learning: Team-based learning (TBL) is a fairly new approach to teaching in
which students rely on each other for their own learning and are held accountable for
coming to class prepared. Research has found that students are more responsible and more
engaged when team-based learning is impelled anted. The major difference in TBL and
normal group activities is that the groups are permanent and most of the class time is
devoted to the group meeting.
• Team Teaching: At its best, team teaching allows students and faculty to benefit from the
healthy exchange of ideas in a setting defined by mutual respect and a shared interest in a
topic. In most cases both faculty members are present during each class and can provide
different styles of interaction as well as different viewpoints.
• Writing Assignments: Writing assignments for class can provide an opportunity for them to
apply critical thinking skills as well as help them to learn course content.

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

Self Assessment
2. State whether the following statements are 'True' or 'False' :
(i) The development of professional attitude in teachers can be done by comprehensive job
analysis of teaching in our school.
(ii) The admission procedure of B.Ed should be completely systematized.
(iii) Critical thinking is a collection of physical activities that include the ability to clarify,
reflect, connect, infer and judge.
(iv) Humor in the classroom can distract the student from studies.
(v) Interdisciplinary teaching involves combining two different topics into one class.

25.5 Summary

• Incompetency of Student Teachers: The existing training programme does not provide
adequate opportunities to the student teachers to develop competency to face the varied
type of situations in their real teaching life because the organizers of teachers training
programme are not aware of the existing problems of schools.
• A teacher should know the meaning of education, its objectives, the socio-cultural and
politico-economic background, various agencies that influence education, the principles
that guide construction of curriculum etc. But a proper preparation towards a good orientation
is impossible in a short duration of 9 months.
• The purpose of supervision is the improvement of instruction in the teaching situation. The
supervisory organization for practice teaching and the supervisory techniques and practice
aim at bringing improvement in the instructional activity of the student teachers by
familiarizing the student teachers.
• The B.Ed. programme does not emphasize the knowledge of the basic subject.
• The whole B.Ed. programme does not make the student to complete his whole prescribed
syllabus in his real teaching.
• In India teacher educators are averse to innovation and experimentation in the use of methods
of teaching.
• In India the entire teacher education programme is lacking in professional attitude which is
so important for a sound programme of teacher education.

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