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Teacher Education

Notes • To facilitate formal learning and education
• To act as a classroom organiser
• To mobilize, manage and use educational resources.
• To undertake/adopt innovative practices
• To offer guidance to students and parents.
• To develop and use teaching materials
• To plan and organize supplementary educational activities.
• To work with community and act as leaders
Curriculum: The curriculum of elementary school teacher education has to be developed in the
light of the following :
• objectives of elementary education,
• the curriculum of school education and its transactional and evaluation techniques for their
implementation,
• regional and local specificities and national requirement,
• upgradation of the standard of knowledge and professional skills of teachers at elementary
school stage.
The curriculum of teacher education at this stage has to be flexible and responsive to the national,
regional and local reality contexts. The theoretical and practical contents should be properly
correlated. The components of child psychology, psychology of teaching and learning, elementary
cultural anthropology, Indian cultural heritage and philosophy, essential unity of religion, history,
problems and status of elementary education, integrated approach to curriculum transaction and
evaluation techniques, elementary and need based yogic exercises and physical education,
organization of school, group and individual educational activities, working with community and
work education, aesthetic education, pedagogy of school subjects, art of productive and happy
living, building of educational climate, organization of field trips for educational activities,
protection of environment, inclusive education, emerging Indian society and educational trends,
remedial teaching, content of elementary education etc. need to be given prominent place.
(i) Curriculum Framework for Elementary School Teacher Education
(a) Theoretical
• Principles, Status, Issues and Problems of Elementary Education,
• Emerging Indian Society (Regional Specifity be emphasized) & Elementary Education,
• Philosophy of Elementary Education - Main trends in the Indian and Western context,
• Psychology of teaching and learning of Elementary School Child,
• Sociology of Education and Cultural Anthropology for elemantary school teacher,
(b) Practical Activities
• Internship at Elementary School for a duration of one semester,
• Communication Skills - Mother Tongue and Regional language and Foreign language,
• Delivering of 60 supervised lessons,
• Plantation and water harvesting,
• Energy harvesting,
(c) Evaluation: The prospective teachers should be made aware of new evaluation techniques and
grading system. Its purpose should be to improve performance and develop the capacity for
self-evaluation. The present mixture of internal and external evaluation is to be replaced by
internal evaluation only in course of time. The whole concentration should be on bringing
self-improvement in the development of professional competency and performance
competencies. Evalution has to be formative, summative and continuous as well as
comprehensive.

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