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Notes (iii) There are .................... in micro teaching and ..................... intergration lessons.
(iv) Total number of simulated lessons are .......................... .

7.10 Summary

• The National Council for Teacher Education has now been vested with statutory authority to
take all such steps as it may think fit for ensuring planned and coordinated development of
teacher education and for the determination and maintenance of standards of teacher education
including preparation for pre-primary, primary, secondary and senior secondary stages of
school education.
• NCTE for Bachelor of Elementary Education (B.EI.Ed.) Programme by the institutions offering
four- year full-time integrated face to face instruction.
• The integrated Elementary Teacher Education Degree Programme, henceforth, called the
Bachelor of Elementary Education (B.EI.Ed.), shall be of a minimum duration of four academic
years, including an Internship of a minimum of 16 working weeks in the fourth/final year of
study.
• Candidates admitted in this Programme shall complete the final year examination within 6
years from the year of admission.
• Candidates seeking admission to the four-year degree programme in Elementary Teacher
Education shall have to qualify in the prescribed Centralised Entrance Test (CET), especially
designed to assess the candidate's potential.
• The intake of candidates in one unit shall not exceed 35 in a class.
• Scheme of Courses for the Bachelor of Elementary Education (B.EI.Ed.).
• Theory Courses: - Foundation Courses; - Core Courses; - Pedagogy Courses; - Liberal Courses;
- Other options in Education.
• Practicum: - Performing and Fine Arts, Crafts and Physical Education; - Participatory Work; -
Observing Children; - Self Development Workshop; - School Contact Programme; - School
Internship; - Project Work; - Tutorials and Colloquia; - Academic Enrichment Activities.
• The institutions will have to meet the following specific demands of a professional programme
of study :
(a) Integrate the B.EI.Ed. students with other institutions' academic as well as co-curricular, and
for the use of all basic facilities such as computers, playground, library, auditorium, etc.
(b) Promote inter-disciplinary academic activities between various departments within the
institutions
(c) Initiate discourse on education by organizing seminars, lectures and discussion groups for
students and faculty.
• The following shall be integrated into the appropriate Ordinances of the University/Institution
concerned which will make provisions through its Statutory Bodies for review as and when
appropriate and in consultation with the NCTE.
(a) The University shall conduct the examination at the end of each year.
(b) Practicum courses may be assessed internally.
(c) A Moderation Board constituted by the concerned University/Institution shall monitor
issues of quality and parity between Institutions for all Practicum Courses and the Internship
Programme.
• Academic Faculty
• Full -Time Faculty Strength : 14
• Faculty -Student Ratio : 1 : 10
• Number of Students : 35 X 4 = 140

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