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Teacher Education

Notes Curriculum: The curriculum for the secondary school teacher education course has to be developed
keeping in view the concerns articulated here under :
• objectives of secondary education/teacher education,
• updated curricular content with emphasis on competencies and values,
• appreciation of the regional conditions and the main stream of nation's life,
• necessity to improve the standard and quality of school education and
• utilization of the locally available resources.
The curriculum of secondary school teacher education needs to maintain continuity with elementary
school curriculum in certain respects. However, it has to become an independent entity in itself as
the teachers at this stage are required to deal with mature students who have been exposed to many
sided social and life experiences. The students at this stage acquire new psychological characteristics
for addressing appropriate teaching strategies have to be deployed.
The curriculum of teacher education secondary stage may include cultural heritage of India, its
unity and diversity, its relevance, Indian philosophy, emerging Indian society, social problems,
modernization, Westernization, evil effects of violence and terrorism, challenges of value inculcation,
HIV/AIDS preventive education, educational experiments, psychology of teaching and learning,
mental health, deviant behaviour, sub-normal and abnormal children, pedagogical analysis of
certain areas of social sciences and sciences, concentration of attention, environmental awareness.
(i) Curriculum Framework for the Secondary School Teacher Education
(a) Duration : years (4 Semesters)
Theoretical
Compulsory
• Principles, Status, Problems and Issues in Secondary Education in India and the region concerned,
• Emerging Indian Society : (Emphasis on unity, diversity and regional specificity) and Secondary
Education,
• Philosophy of Secondary Education : Indian and Western : (Only trends and educational
implications),
• Sociology of Education and Cultural Anthropology (unity, diversity and the study of regional
culture be given due weightage),
• Psychology of learning and motivation of secondary school level students (Regional and
Group Specificities be given due weightage),
• Curriculum and instructional designs for secondary school level,
(b) Practical Activities
• Internship for one semester at secondary school,
• Teaching of two subjects and pedagogical analysis as is common in schools or prescribed by
the university - (minimum 60 lessons),
• Communication skills,
• Environment Protection,
• Ecosystem - Structure and Functions,
(c) Curriculum Transaction: At the present moment, the responsibility of the curriculum transaction
is on the teacher educators who by and large use lecture method for this purpose. Student-
teachers of this stage are academically quite mature and can share the burden of their own
study; therefore, the teacher educators should lay emphasis on non-conventional methods,
self and independent study, group learning and discussion, field trips and excursion, problem
solving and preparation of projects, Multi-channel learning system (MCLS). They have to
learn to prepare tests and evaluation tools.

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