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Unit 5: Aims and Objectives of Teacher Education at Secondary Level

5.2 Objectives of Teacher Education Programme at Secondary Level Notes

• To train them in the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), its advantages,
disadvantages and safeguards,
• To empower the prospective teachers to adopt disciplinary approach in teaching, and to develop
among students interest in such studies.
• To enable them to understand the implications of liberalization, privatization, globalization
(LPG) free market, W.T.O. and Outsourcing etc. on education and adopt precautionary measures
against their unsound effects.
• To enable them to develop the teaching competencies and performance skills for the subjects
they have to teach, using appropriate aids including Information and Communication
Teachnology (ICT), organize supplementary educational activities and elicit community
cooperation,
• To the educational and cultural gap between the rich and the poor the schools meant for them
by adopting suitable educational approaches.
• To maintain the continuity of elementary education and to prepare students for the study of
diversified courses and appropriate selection of subjects at the senior secondary stage,
• To develop among the prospective teachers love for Indian culture, and its contribution to the
world and to inculcate a sense of national pride and identity.
• To prepare them for the development of personality, inculcation of values, fostering the spirit
of citizenship and patriotic feeling.
• To empower student teachers not only to understand the nature of subjects but also the unity
and integrity of knowledge,
• To enable students to acquire, construct, process and utilize knowledge as per the requirement
of circumstances,
• To create among them the awareness of environmental protection and need to maintain an
ecological balance.
• To enable them to integrate yogic, health, physical, aesthetic and inclusive education with
other educational activities.
• To help them to grasp the main thrust of the curriculum and develop appropriate transactional
and evaluation strategies for the same.
• To develop among them the capacity for undertaking action research for improving the quality
of education, for the solution of its problems and to evolve the culture specific and community
oriented pedagogy.
• To enable the prospective teachers to orient and sensitize the students with care and caution
about Life Skill education. HIV / AIDS preventive education, reproductive health, etc.
• To acquaint them with Indian nation's distinctive character of unity of diversity and adopt
curriculum development practices to strengthen them.
• To help them evolve happy and healthy school and community relationship and promote
interest in life long learning,
Similarly, a few more objectives may be formulated in consonance with the emerging trends in the
context of local to global scenario.

What is ICT? Explain.

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