Specific Features of Dual Degree and Integrated Teacher Education Programme

  • Unique Paper ID: 165300
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 1
  • PageNo: 600-607
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  • Knowledge is soul of intellectual life and can be attained through education. Education is the process to prepare oneself intellectually to do better in mature life through acquiring knowledge or skills. It might be more correct to say that education develop the powers of reasoning. Teacher education is a programme related with teacher proficiency and competence that would make students knowledgeable and skilled enough to face new challenges in the field of education. It occupies the apex of higher educational pyramid. The field of education is not only limited with instruction and bookish knowledge but has broadened in various new horizons. India’s teacher education sector has failed to map the future demand for a efficient and skilled teacher. Presently, teacher education suffers from acute paucity of funds, lack of autonomy, burden of affiliation and traditional teacher education programs. Besides these teacher education has been affected by-politicization, heterogeneity of student population, rough institutions, managerial inefficiencies, poor course design, inadequate material resources, inefficiencies in teaching, lack of training facilities in teacher education institution and schools. People come to teacher education with beliefs, values, commitments, personalities and moral codes from their upbringing and schooling which affect who they are as teachers and what they are able to learn in teacher education and in teaching. In addition to foundational knowledge about the areas of learning and performance listed in the above quotation, teachers need to know how to take the steps necessary to gather additional information that will allow them to make more grounded judgments about what is going on and what strategies may be helpful. More importantly, teachers need to keep what is best for the student at the centre of their decision making. New world of teaching profession demands teacher with deep knowledge, good understanding, investigative minds and creativity. Seeing this need, in November, 2014 National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) has been revised the norms and standards for teacher education programmes. These norms and regulations have shown paradigm shift of teacher education with its emphas

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  • ISSN: 2349-6002
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 1
  • PageNo: 600-607

Specific Features of Dual Degree and Integrated Teacher Education Programme

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