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PREFACE

Any change in the nature, purpose, quality or character of school education throws new demands on teacher education and reinforces the process of programme evaluation and re-adjustment especially in the area of curriculum reconstruction.

The developments in the application and dissemination of knowledge and information technology have been changing the demands in education. Teacher`s Education is a crucial factor in meeting these demands with the reformation in instructions.

I have expressed my experiences in my own simple way. I hope who goes through it will find it interesting and worth reading. All constructive feedback is cordially invited.

Neha Lalwani

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

It is my pleasure to be indebted to various people, who directly or indirectly contributed in the development of this work and who influenced my thinking , behavior and acts during the course of study.

I express my sincere gratitude to …………………….. worthy Principal for providing me an opportunity to undergo summer training at……………..

I am thankful to ……………......... for his support, cooperation, and motivation provided to me during the training for constant inspiration, presence and blessings.

I also extend my sincere appreciation to …………………………who provided his valuable suggestions and precious time in accomplishing my training report.

Lastly, I would like to thank the almighty and my parents for their moral support and my friends with whom I shared my day-to day experience and received lots of suggestions that my quality of work.

Neha Lalawani

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CANDIDATE’S DECLARATION

I Neha Lalwani Roll No. ………… B.ed of the K.I.E.T. BANGALORE

hereby declare that the Training Report entitled “Teacher`s Education” is an original

work and data provided in the study is authentic to the best of my knowledge. This

report has not been submitted to any other Institute for the award of any other

degree.

Neha Lalwani

(Roll No. …………)

Place:

Date:

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TABLE OF CONTENT S

PREFACE........................................................................................................2

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS................................................................................3

CANDIDATE`S DECLARATION......................................................................4

TABLE OF CONTENT.....................................................................................5

1. INTRODUCTION......................................................................................6

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INTRODUCTION

Teaching is a profession and is a process of professional preparation of teachers, Teaching is an art that can be acquired through a series of well-designed activities, its’ imperative, therefore due emphasis should be laid on the education of the teachers.

Teacher education program that it should prepare good teachers by providing them with a sound foundation of the theoretical knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and interests. It should enable the trainees to acquire knowledge, skills and techniques for effective teaching and to inculcate in the trainees the desired ideals and behavioural patterns of the society in which we live.

The improvement of educational provision in every country is greatly dependent on the efficiency of teachers' education. This efficiency in turn, depends on the knowledge and skills obtained during their education on a first level, on the accumulation of their professional experience, its practical application and its interaction with the educational context on a second level, and on the potential offered to the teacher during his/her professional career to adapt to the new developments so that they are able to be constantly updated, improved and modernized.

The teacher education system through its initial teacher education especially, has a major part to play in the making of a teacher. It makes the initiation of the novice entrant to the calling and such as tremendous potential to imbue the teacher with the aspirations, knowledge – base, repertoire of pedagogic capacities and humane attitudes (NCFTE, 2010).

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Objectives of teacher education

The following are the objectives of teacher education at the elementary level. At the end of the programme the trainees will be able,

To understand the nature, purpose, problems and issues of elementary education.

To evolve need – based, community – specific and child – centred pedagogy including indigenous learning systems.

To understand the nature and maturity level of children for imparting education for their many sided development.

To mobilize and manage community resources for development of school infrastructure.

To use the constructivist pedagogy and evaluation techniques. To develop desire, taste and capacity for life-long teaching and make them

aware of the latest developments in their areas of specialization and the needed transactional skills.

To understand the advantages of ICT and use the same for facilitating student learning.

To participate in the effective management of the school.

Big challenges

Number of untrained teachers, including vocational education teachers

Concern for quality of teacher training

Access to technology

Faith on technology to assist improving access and quality of education

Quality of student learning (joyful, as well as learning for living)

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Four stages of teacher development

1. Fantasy

All they need to do is relate, have fun with the students, be there for them, be their friends, Identify with them.

Refer to the note on the handout about being a pal. They are not going to be like the teachers they had in school.

2. Survival

Just make it through the day, learning is out the window, Put in your time and get on with my life, look to the weekend and look forward to a paycheck, busy work is in,

they revert to the practices they condemned before they started teaching, they make excuses for why students don’t learn.

Attitude is negative

3. Mastery

They have a command of the subject matter and they are going to get it over to students.

They know how to control the classrooom and they know what to do when something does not work-- Try something else. willing to learn

Not interested in deadend activities. I can make a difference, Hopeful, Positive attitude

4. Impact

Teachers have a positive impact on students, uses variety of methods and techniques to make a positive impact/change.

Apply the knowledge they have in a way that results in the most benefit to students.

Sometimes more questions are rasied than are ask!!!!

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Objectives and goals teacher training program The content, objectives and final outcomes of the teacher training program can be for-mulated as follows. The graduate:

functions in general working and thinking at the level of a teacher, as guide for learning and development processes, educator, expert in terms of content, organiser, innovator/researcher, partner with the parents/caregivers and outside persons, member of a school team and of the educational community and as participating in the culture, as de-scribed in the Decision of the Flemish government of 5 October 2007;

can utilise what was acquired during the basic study program (Ba and Ma) to give content to the objectives of Protestant Evangelical religious education, taking into account didactic and pedagogical principles and the concrete educational situation;

is able to guide students in their development to integrate what is learned, society and meaning and to take up their place in society with personal involvement, taking into account their individual psychosocial charcater;

strives toward optimal relationships with colleagues, support personnel, direction and inspection;

can express him/herself clearly and correctly, both orally and in written form, in Dutch;

is sufficiently informed of administrative requirements relating to school and his/her own career;

respects the diversity of the Protestant Evangelical community and is able to defend this community in word and deed;

is able to pursue further studies on the basis of self evaluation

Purpose of Education Strategy

To ensure that:

By 2015 the department of state of education and its affiliated institutions are providing effective, efficient, relevant and high quality education services to its clients.

The values behind the teacher’s professional ethics

Human worth

Honesty

Justice

Freedom

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Teachers’ professional morality

The teacher’s role has changed

views of teaching and learning international co-operation multiculturalism increased autonomy interaction skills

DESCRIPTION - Teacher Education:

NCFTE (2010), described that teaching is a profession and teacher education is a process of professional preparation of teachers. “If you educate a boy, you educate one individual, If you educate a girl, you educate a teacher, If you educate a teacher, you educate a community. “Knowledge is power” implies that teaching is an art that can be acquired through a series of well- designed activities, its imperative, therefore due emphasis should be laid on the education of the teachers.

Elementary teachers lay the foundation of the progress of a country. Elementary school students belong to the age group of 6-14, is being the critical time of a growing child, giving right direction plays a vital role. Every child is different, every age is different and every child can be molded to be a better and a smarter human being. This is the very important age that a child gains his personality. Grooming a child in this period will develop his personality and give him perspective on life.

Right of children of free and compulsory education Act (2009), increases the demand manifold for qualified elementary school teachers. The country has to address the need of supplying well qualified and professionally trained teachers in larger numbers in the coming years (NCFTE, 2010).

NCF (2005), and RTE (2009), recommended that the elementary teacher should be prepared to care for children and also to understand diversity in their social, cultural and political contexts. Pre-service teacher training assumes great significance as a result of the above by providing Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed.) Programmes to prepare elementary teachers.

 After the completion of the two years D.Ed. programme the student teachers will be able to:

Attract and retain in the school all school, age children from the school vicinity.

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Be familiar with socio economic status of families in the neighbourhood.

Adopt innovation and interesting techniques of teaching children from standards I to VIII.

Mobilize means and materials for academic facilitation of the children. Develop appropriate basic personal and special skills in the pupils in

each standard.

Two major responsibilities of a teacher

To Know what to teach.

Curriculum planning

Content selection

Selecting text books

Sequencing the content

To know how to teach.

Methods and techniques

Understanding students and how to manage the classroom.

FACTS

• 'Teacher’s Day' is intended to be a special day for the appreciation of teachers

• World Teachers' Day is celebrated across the world on October 5

• Ever since the importance of teachers has been recognized by UNESCO, by adopting the “Recommendation concerning the status of teachers”, World Teachers' Day has been celebrated annually.

• In most cases, different countries celebrate a local educator or an important milestone in education

• Hence, all countries celebrate this day on different dates, unlike many other International Days.

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• India celebrates its Teacher’s Day on 5th September in the honor of its first vice-president and second president, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan  September 1888 – 17 April 1975) was an Indian philosopher and statesman. He was the first Vice-President of India (1952–1962) and subsequently the second President of India (1962–1967).

• Among the many honours he received were a knighthood (1931), the Bharat Ratna (1954) and the Order of Merit in 1963.

• When he became President, some of his students and friends requested him to allow them to celebrate his birthday, 5th September. He replied, “Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.”

• Since then, His birthday is celebrated in India as Teachers' Day on 5 September.

• According to him, “Teachers should be the best minds in the country.”

A Few Ideas on Teachers- A.P.J. Abdul Kalaam

• Any enlightened human being can be created by three unique characteristics. And teachers play an important role in all the three

• One is the moral value system.

• Secondly, the teacher becoming a role model. Not only does the student learn, but the teacher shapes his life with great dreams and aims.

• Finally, the education and learning process has to culminate in the creation of professional capability leading to confidence and will power to make a design, to make a product, to make a system, bravely combating many problems.

Conclusion…

Successful learning for teachers requires continued coordinated efforts that range from preservice education to early teaching to opportunities of lifelong professional development. Creating these opportunities, based on the knowledge of learning and teaching obtained from research, is a major challenge but not impossible.

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