Volume : VI, Issue : XII, December - 2017

QUALITY ENHANCEMENT IN TEACHER EDUCATION: NEED OF THE HOUR

Shiva Kumar Tunguturi

Abstract :

 Teachers make the highest impact on quality in the classroom. They are at the heart of education. There is a need for high quality teacher educators. For teachers, learning and teaching are a complementary process. No profession is free of challenges. Teachers have to face several hurdles in their careers. Teachers have to recognise/understand children needs & their requirements, deficiencies, weakness, difficulties, problems & strengths etc to make teaching & learning more interesting and qualitative. Teacher Education has always been an important component of education since time immemorial. This is because all societies in the world have always needed teachers to propagate/transmit their cultures from one generation to another. Teachers need to be seen as creators of knowledge and thinking professionals. A teacher needs to be an information provider, role model, facilitator, assessor, planner, resource and developer. Educated teachers, with wide knowledge, command the respect of fellow teachers and the people in their communities. They need to be empowered to recognise and value what children learn from their home, social and cultural environment and to create opportunities for children to discover, learn and develop. Teacher education has attracted severe criticism from different sources as documented in policy documents and commission reports on education. A quick glance through surveys of educational research in India conducted periodically over the years substantiates the point that teacher education programmes have remained unchanged in terms of their substance, experiences offered and modalities adopted. Policy makers must really feel guilty of their individual and collective failures in promoting desired access, infrastructure, teachers and outcome at each level of education. This paper discusses the role of quality enhancement in Teacher Education.

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Shiva Kumar Tunguturi, QUALITY ENHANCEMENT IN TEACHER EDUCATION: NEED OF THE HOUR, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-6 | Issue-12 | December-2017

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