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Notes (B) Job Skills of Teacher in India
1. Personal and Social Skills.
2. Professional Skills.
3. Conceptual Skills.
(C) Know-how for Teacher in India
1. General Education or Basic Knowledge.
2. Special Training or Education Competence.
The relationship in the above dimensions is indicated by the following model:

Fig: 28.1
This diagram attempts to show that the whole purpose time of teacher education should be
rooted in the approved theory of teacher education developed in the Indian context (A); should
aim at giving trainees the required job skills (B); and should consist of general as well as special
training for the teaching profession (C).
The present curriculum of teacher education has heavy concentration on mere professional skills
or methodology of teaching and the very little bearing on the development of personality of
teacher or his social competencies or his conceptual abilities in terms of creative ideas, schemes,
plans or researches. A teacher merely becomes a consumer of educational through and not a critic
or a creator of a new educational material. The curriculum of teacher education is theoretical as
well as practical. A balanced curriculum of teacher preparation should provide him with an
opportunity of his all round development as a man. He ought to be a man of creative imagination
rather then he a technician of teaching or a manager of classroom.
Hence a comprehensive curriculum of teacher education should include courses on all the phases
of teacher's total development. It should offer equal weightage to all the different types of
courses meant for building various understanding and skills of teachers. If it is integrated for a
three year degree course, half the period should be devoted to the development of personnel,
social and conceptual skills and the other half on the professional teaching skills. If it is a year's
course for graduates, whole period should be devoted to both the professional skills and the
personal as well as social skills because the conceptual skills have already been given a good
deal of attention during their undergraduate courses.

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