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Teacher Education Scenario Of India Essay

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TEACHER EDUCATION SCENARIO IN INDIA TO ENSURE QUALITY UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

The intent of the present paper is to enhance the teacher education quality in India by focusing on the emerging issues & related concerns. Various issues of teacher education namely, institutional inertia, brand inequity, quality crisis, overgrowing establishment, rare humane and professional teachers, poor integration of skills, alienated and incompatible modes of teacher education, little contribution to higher education, domain pedagogy mismatches, identity crisis, rare innovations, stake holders ' non-alignment, inadequate technology infusion, little choice base, poor research scenario, vision and vision mismatches, non-scientific manpower planning, illusive laboratories, over activism of distance/open universities, invalid recognition and accreditation and no teacher education policy have been dwelt on in this paper. The paper concludes that teacher education system in India calls for revolutionary changes. KEYWORDS:
Teacher Education, Problems and Concerns

INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
Indian teacher education system has been strengthened a lot during the past couple of years. The NCTE Regulation 2007 were revisited and modified by the NCTE and notified in 2009. The Elementary School Teachers ' qualifications were worked out and notified in August 2010. The TET inclusion in qualifications has been widely appreciated, wherein, it was provided that even after obtaining the necessary

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