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Unit 29: Curriculum Development on in Integrated in Teacher Education Curriculum

knowledge’( NCFTE 2009, p24). Three broad curricular areas identified by this framework are: Notes
(A) Foundations of Education which includes courses under three rubrics, namely, Learner Studies,
Contemporary Studies and Educational Studies; (B) Curriculum and Pedagogy including
Curriculum Studies and Pedagogic Studies; and (C) School Internship, leading to the development
of a broad repertoire of perspective, professional capacities, teacher sensibilities and skills (NCFTE
2009, p24). An attempt has been made through this curriculum framework to not only address the
issues, concerns and pedagogical shifts visualised by NCF 2005, but, also organise the entire
teacher education curriculum as an organic and integrated whole.
This framework envisages a two year teacher preparation programme along with the four year
integrated teacher education courses. It is felt that longer duration of teacher preparation will
provide enough time and opportunity for self- study, reflection and engagement with teachers,
students, classrooms and pedagogic activities that is essential for developing professionalism in
teachers.
It also tries to address the criticism regarding the unrelatedness of theoretical discourses of
teacher education institutions to the classroom realities by incorporating the socio-cultural contexts
of education, giving more weightage to the field experience of student teachers in all courses
through practicum, visits to innovative centres of pedagogy and learning, classroom based
research, longer duration of internship i.e minimum duration of six to ten weeks for a two year
programme ( four days per week), and 15-20 weeks for a four year programme, including an
initial phase of one week for observing a regular classroom with a regular teacher. It also
emphasises developing unit plan and maintaining Reflective Journals which is currently missing
from our teacher education programmes, especially, at the secondary level.

What is the aim of introduce integrated teacher education programme?

Self Assessment
1. Fill in the blanks:
(i) National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE) introduced a separate subject on technologies
recognied as ..................... at both B.Ed and M.Ed levels.
(ii) The four year integrated was introduced during the 1960s in .................... four regional
colleges of education in Ajmer, Bhubneshwar4, Mysore and ..................... .
(iii) The key findings of the integrated teacher education programme are much better than the
products of the traditional ......................... .
(iv) The main aim of the ............................. is to prepare reflective practitioners who are socially
sensitive.
(v) The curricular areas identified by National framework are foundations of education,
curriculum and pedagogy and .................... .
(vi) The intention of National curriculum framework (2009) is the ................... of teachers in the
field of education.
Guidelines/Suggestions
The present curriculum format of teacher education at distinct levels, pre-main, elementary and
secondary education is usually based, apart from others on Foundation Courses, which consists
of philosophical, sociological and psychological perspectives of education. The intention is that
the teacher must have a conceptual understanding of the field of education, its considerable
concerns which are relevant for political, social and cultural development of the nation so that
the teacher is just not responsible only for performing "knick knacks" of the job of teaching but
is also imbued with the perspectives of creating people who can apply their minds to the diverse
situations that acquire in the field of education. It is the Foundation Courses which supply a lot

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