OBJECTIVE OF TEACHER EDUCATION AND TEACHER EDUCATION

1. OBJECTIVES OF TEACHER EDUCATION AT DIFFERENT LEVELS
AND ITS STRUCTURES.
By
MONOJIT GOPE
Kabi Joydeb Mahavidyalaya

2. OBJECTIVES OF TEACHER EDUCATION
1. Provide opportunities to observe and engage with children, communicate with and relate to
children
2. Provide opportunities for self-learning, reflection, assimilation and articulation of new
ideas; developing capacities for self directed learning and the ability to think, be self-
critical and to work in groups.
3. Provide opportunities for understanding self and others (including one‘s beliefs,
assumptions and emotions); developing the ability for self analysis, self-evaluation,
adaptability, flexibility, creativity and innovation.

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4. Provide opportunities to enhance understanding, knowledge and examine disciplinary
knowledge and social realities, relate subject matter with the social milieu and develop
critical thinking.
5. Provide opportunities to develop professional skills in pedagogy, observation,
documentation, analysis, drama, craft, story-telling and reflective inquiry.

4. OBJECTIVES OF TEACHER EDUCATION AT THE
SECONDARY LEVEL.
1. To develop among teachers an acceptable desired perspective about academic stream
and understanding of its nature, purpose and philosophy.
2. To make them aware of the philosophy, purpose and teaching learning strategies of the
subjects they have to teach.
3. To empower them to make in-depth pedagogical analysis of the subjects they have to
teach and understand their relevance to tertiary education.
4. To empower prospective teachers to comprehend the characteristics of students for
making suitable educational provisions for them.
5. To develop among them the competencies to communicate abstract and complex ideas
and concepts in simple terms.

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6. To make them understand the objectives, transactional strategies, evaluation techniques
and curriculum designing in different areas of study at this stage.
7. To develop among them the skills for promoting patriotic feeling national consciousness,
social cohesion, communal harmony and universal brotherhood.
8. To enable the perspective teachers to evolve need based and culture specific pedagogy.
9. To make them aware of national problems, environmental crisis and Indian cultural ethos.

6. STRUCTURE OF TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMME AT SECONDARY
AND HIGHER SECONDARY LEVEL
NCTE while finalizing the structure & curriculum framework followed two criteria i.e. Flexibility &
Integration flexibility for mobility of teachers from stage to another, mobility from one discipline to
another and from pre-service to in-service.
Integration meant integrating theory component with one total programme.
Each stage comprised of 3 main areas –
1) Pedagogical Theory.
2) Working with Community.
3) Content cum methodology including practice teaching

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In pedagogy core papers were taught core training programme focused on development of skills for teachers regardless of their subject,
area or level. Each stage will also aim at developing specific skill for teaching.
Working with community was introduced with specific purpose of applying theory to actual situation. Weightage to be given to these 3
areas at the secondary stage is
Pedagogy - 20%
Working with community - 20%
Content cum methodology - 60%
Weightage at higher secondary stage is
Pedagogy - 30%
Working with community - 20%
Content cum methodology - 50%

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Entry qualification at secondary stage is graduation with 3 pagers in school subjects with minimum second
class. Duration is 1 year. Entry qualification for higher secondary stage is post graduate in 1 of 2 subjects with
minimum 55% at post graduate level. Two types of courses i.e. academic and vocational have been designed.
The characteristics of courses of academic stream are :
1. Differentiated, demarcated and specific contents.
2. Subject and discipline orientation preparatory to specification.
3. Enriched and comprehensive curriculum with goal specificity.
4. Regrouping of subjects into compulsory and optional.
5. Emphasis on abstract and creative thinking and higher mental faculties to deal with complex ideas and
complicated concepts.
6. Directed and focused towards higher studies.

9. OBJECTIVE OF TEACHER EDUCATION AT
HIGHER EDUCATION LEVEL.
1. To develop essential competencies and skills for curriculum development, transaction and evaluation of
Teacher Education programme.
2. Inspire and demonstrate research based and reflective practices.
3. Able to share and use modern and applicable learning centred teaching and assessment methods.
4. Develop among teachers commitment to scholarship of teaching and learning in discipline and in the inter
discipline scientific community. Able to show and promote active participation in national and international
networks. Develop abstract reasoning creative and critical thinking among the students.
5. Build excitement and increase anticipation of professional educators for the use of information and
communication technology to enhance instruction.

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6. Identify computer and related technology resources for facilitating life long learning and emerging roles of the
learner and the educator.
7. To enable the perspective teacher educators to evolve need based and culture specific pedagogy.
8. To empower them to induce their students for self employment.
9. Develop insight among the students to transfer their vocational skills in higher learning form one area to another.
10. To make them aware of national problems environmental crisis and Indian cultural ethos.
11. To enable them to develop the spirit of self reliance and self confidence.
12. To develop and inculcate the skills of problem solving and research based activities.

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