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Teacher Education Kulwinder Pal, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 29: Curriculum Development on in Integrated in

Teacher Education Curriculum

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
29.1 Meaning of Curriculum
29.2 Need of Curriculum Development in Teacher Education
29.3 Objectives of Curriculum
29.4 Flexibility of the Basic Feature of Curriculum
29.5 Development of Teacher Education Curriculum
29.6 Integreted Teacher Education Programme
29.7 National Curriculum Frameworks for Teacher Education (2009)
29.8 Summary
29.9 Keywords
29.10 Review Questions
29.11 Further Readings

Objectives

After reading this unit, students will be able to:
• to discuss about the meaning of curriculum.
• to explain about the need of curriculum development in teacher education.
• to describe about the objectives of curriculum.
• to discuss about the flexibility of the basic feature of curriculum.
• to explain about the development of teacher educaiton curriculum.
• to explain about the integrated teacher education programme.
• to describe about the national curriculum framework for teacher education programme.

Introduction

Effective curriculum frameworks for initial teacher education aimed at developing professionalism
in pre- service teachers are expected to have their base in well defined standards for various
categories of school teachers. A number of countries have developed standards for various levels
of school teachers which provide the basis for the formulation of the courses of studies. In India,
development of teacher education curriculum framework is mostly an academic exercise due to
the absence of such notified standard for school teachers. Two important documents that influenced
the process of teacher curriculum reform in the country are: the report of the Education
Commission (1964-66), and the National Policy on Education 1986. All subsequent efforts to
modify teacher education curriculum to address the national aspirations for education have tried
to integrate and incorporate various recommendations of these two documents. Education of
teachers in the country has been considered crucial, not only for ensuring greater professionalism
in teachers but also for facilitating school improvement and effectiveness.
The quality of teacher produced in any institution largely depends upon the quality of curriculum
offered to them during their training period. It is allso true that the competence and quality of

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