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Unit 6: Aims and Objectives of Teacher Education at College Level

The other expectations is to make Teacher Education globally relevant with learner centred pedagogy Notes
and objective continuous assessment Curriculum of Teacher Education Programme at college Level.
Specialized Studies:
• Language Studies
• Career Preparation
• Global Issues
• Choice Based Optional
Need Based curriculum : The primary purpose of teaching education curriculum in our country is to
prepare teacher for the different school levels. The concept of teacher preparation for higher education
has not gathered enough momentum an ideal teacher education curriculum should be deduced
from the professional competencies to be required and the roles to be performed and the habits,
attitudes and values to acquire. The great and general complaint about the school curricula is that
they are overloaded. This is often due to the non involvements of teachers in the process of curriculum
development and in the preparation of textual material and also to the rigid nature of the curriculum
document.
Quality Curriculum: The quality curriculum is one which has the potential to realize its stated
objectives with minimum efforts. In this context of teacher education a quality curriculum stands
for its ability to develop professionally competent teachers within the assigned time for the operation.
The quality of curriculum refers to its attributes are in corporated in its development. As the
existing curriculum in higher education is mostly non functional, it ought to be restructured. At
may be well be made to respond to the challenges enumerated to avoid the pitfalls Apart from the
Apex bodies like NCERT and NCTE, Curriculum building should be more democratic in spirit in
corporating the suggestions from social workers, psychologists, eminent persons in the various
field.
Self Assessment
2. State whether the following statements are 'True' or 'False':
(i) The primary purpose of teaching education curriculum in our country is to prepare teacher
for the different levels.
(ii) The complaint about the college curriculum is that they are over loaded.
(iii) The effectiveness of an in service programme does not depend on the appropriateness of the
training content, quality of the trainer.
(iv) Self study is not the most effective tool for achieving the professional growth.

6.7 Summary

• The Role of teacher is becoming more specific and specialized and yet demanding in the new
world order on account of the explosion of knowledge. This would mean the need for increased
professionalism among the incoming teaching community.
• There is an urgent need for ensuring professional development well coordinated, coherent
and adequate resources.
• There are two types of objectives of teacher education at college level.
(i) Objective concerning knowledge and understanding.
(ii) Objective concerning skills and abilities.
• To understand the developmental needs of children, to have insight and sympathetic
understanding, to develop positive attitude etc. are knowledge and understanding based
objective.
• To acquire expression of thoughts, ability to understand individual differences, ability to asses
children's achievements etc. are skills and ability based objectives of teacher education.

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