Revamp of teaching education system in country begins

Updated on: Wednesday, April 18, 2012

The National council of teacher education (NCTE) has taken an initiative to reform and revamp teaching education system in the country. Following the implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education-2009, the government is now gearing up to reform the teaching education system with an aim to improve the quality of procedures and practices.

Following the exercise, all courses of teacher education like BEd, MEd, NTT (Nursery Teachers Training), BPEd and MPEd will get revised. Speaking on the issue, member of NCTE northern regional committee and AU public relation officer Prof PK Sahoo said, "The revamp is being carried out as per the NCERT curriculum framework and is aimed at improving the teacher education system."

He said NCTE, which is the government body overlooking standards, procedures and processes of teachers' education and training system in the country, has already begun the process and set up four sub-committees under a specially formed commission for the purpose.

These sub-committees will look into specific issues like analysis and steps for improving curriculum, norms and standards, accreditation and innovative programmes in teacher education, regulatory functions. Similarly a separate sub-panel will scrutinise the distance education and information communication technologies (ICT) in teacher education while another will study preparation of teacher educators, he added.NCTE has also invited suggestions from people in this regard.

As part of the initiative, the NCTE is also in the process of developing new and improved resource materials for teacher-trainees and teacher educators in respect of the various teacher education courses, which can serve as reference material for transacting the teacher education programmes.

Earlier, NCTE revamped these courses only in 2009 but at that time many universities and colleges had refused to abide by it. However with the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education-2009 now getting implemented, all universities, private and government colleges will have to teach the courses as per the NCTE norms, Prof Sahoo said.

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