Webinar Series 1 (Teacher Education) on 08-05-2020, Scope of Teacher Education Presentation by A.Jancy Rose Mary, II MEd Scholar, Department of Education, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University.
5. Ancient and Medieval
Period
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• Teaching was concerned with
teaching of Vedas
• Brahmins served as teachers
• No formal system of teachers training
• Methods and techniques were very
simple.
6. Buddhist Period
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• Formal system of teacher's training
emerged
• Teachers were trained for propagating
Buddhism.
• The method of training teachers (monks)
was recognized and named as
‘monitorial system’.
• Teaching was considered as the noblest
profession during this period.
7. Muslim Period
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• No formal system of teacher training
• Educational institutions were called
‘Madarsah’ Students were taught by
molvies
• Education was mainly teaching of ‘Quran’
• Educated people available in the country or
abroad from Arabia were appointed as
Molvies
• Only Mohamdans were allowed to teach in
Mokalis and Madarsahs.
8. British Period
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• Britishers changed the above educational
system according to their own system, their
need and philosophy.
• Formal system of teacher education was
started by Britishers.
• The Danish Missionaries established a
formal training centre at Serampur(West
Bengal) as the first step in the field of
training the teachers in India.
• After this three more institutions called
Normal Schools were opened for training
the teachers, one each at Madras, Bombay,
and Calcutta.
• In 1824, the total number of teacher’s
training institutions rose to 26.
9. Pre-independence Period
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1. Monitorial System 1880
The idea of formal teacher training originated
out of an indigenous technique, called
"Monitorial System”
Based on the principle of mutual instruction.
The whole class was splitted into a
number of small groups and by placing
each group under the charge of a brilliant
pupil, called monitor
The monitors gained some proficiency in
teaching and class control, which enabled
them to teach independently in their later
life.
10. 2.Teacher’s Training
Schools
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• The first formal teachers’ training
School in India was set up at
Serampur (Bengal) in the name of
"Normal School" by Carey,
Marshman and Ward in 1793
• In Bombay, the Native Education
Society trained number of teachers
for the improvement of teaching in
primary schools.
11. • In Bengal the Calcutta School Society
did pioneering work for the training of
teachers for indigenous schools.
• The Ladies Society of Calcutta
started a training class for training
women teachers in the Calcutta
Central School for girls. A number of
government training schools were
also set up in the first half of the
nineteenth century
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12. 3.Woods Despatch (1854)
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• The Wood's Despatch popularly known
as Magna Charta of English Education
in India advocated the need of
establishing teachers’ training
institutions
• Giving stipends to pupil teachers for the
first time. Awarding small payments to
masters of the schools in which they are
employed for the instruction out of
school hours.
• Ultimately nothing was done in this
direction.
13. 4.Stanley’s Despatch (1859)
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• Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for India,
greatly emphasized on teacher training.
• The new grant-in-aid rules if salary grants to
schools be given to those teachers who had
obtained a certificate of teacher training.
• In 1882 there existed 106 Normal Schools,
including 15 institutions meant exclusively
for women.
14. •About the training of secondary
teachers, training classes were
added to the following schools
•(i) Government Normal School,
Madras (1856)
•(ii) Central Training School,
Lahore (1877)
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15. 5.Education Policy (1904)
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• There were five teacher training colleges in all
at places like Madras, Kurseong, Allahabad,
Lahore and Jubbulpur. Intermediates or
Graduates could seek admission to these
Colleges.
• Training Schools : The Resolution
recommended opening of more training
schools, particularly in Bengal.
• The normal schools were mostly boarding
schools where students with vernacular
education came for training and were given
stipends. They received general education
combined with the instruction in the methods of
teaching and practice in teaching.
16. • The Resolution recommended a minimum
course of two years.
• The Government of India Resolution on
Education Policy (1913) : The second
resolution on educational policy suggested
many useful measures regarding
improvement of Primary education.
• The resolution suggested that teachers
should be drawn from the class of the boys
whom they will teach, and they should have
passed the middle vernacular examination
and undergone a year's training.
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17. 6.Calcutta University
Commission (1917-1919)
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• Chairman – Micheal Sadler
• Popularly known as Sadler
Commission
• Attaching small experimental school
• Teacher training curricula were
improved
18. 7.Hartog Committee
(1929)
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• Standard of general education for primary
teachers –raised
• Duration –long
• 1932- first BEd –Andra University
• 1936- Bombay University – M.Ed started
20. Post –Independence Period
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• 1.University Education Commission (1948-
1949)
• The first commission in free India
• Critically scanned the existing courses in
teacher training programme
• suggested that the courses must be flexible
and adaptable to local circumstances.
21. • In this context, the commission
recommended that the courses should
be remodeled, suitable schools to be
used for practical training and more time
to be given to school practice.
• In 1950, the First Conference of Training
Colleges in India was held at Baroda to
discuss programmes and functions of
training colleges.
• In this commission, "teacher training
was given a new nomenclature and it
became "teacher education”
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22. 2.Secondary Education
Commission (1952-53)
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• Recommended that during oneyear of
training graduate teacher should be trained
in methods of teaching in at least two
subjects.
• The practical training should not consist
only of practice in teaching, observation,
demonstration and criticism of lessons, but
should include such subjects as
construction and administration of
scholastic tests, organization of supervised
study and students societies, conducting
library periods and maintenance of
cumulative records.
23. 3.Ford Foundation
Term (1954)
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• Government of India in collaboration with Ford
Foundation appointed an International team of
eight experts in 1954 that studied in greater
detail the major recommendations of Secondary
Education Commission and recommended that
the training institutions should organize and
conduct demonstration or laboratory schools
where experiments are made in curriculum
construction and progressive methods of
teaching are used...
25. • The examination papers should be reduced
to four
• 1. Principles of Education and School
Organization
• 2. Educational Psychology and Health
Education
• 3. Methods of Teaching Two School
Subjects
• 4. Current Problems in Indian Education
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26. 5.Education Commission(1964-66)
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• Also known as Kothari Commission showed
keen interest in teacher education.
• sound programme of professional
education for teachers was essential for the
qualitative improvement in education at all
levels of teacher education to meet the
requirements of the national system of
education.
• Teacher, must be accorded and honored
place in society.
27. 6.First Asian Conference
on Teacher Education
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• Sponsored by Indian Association of Teacher
Educators (IATE) and the International Council
on Education for Teaching (ICET) was held from
14th to 19th June 1971 at Bangalore.
• 'ITEP' Plan of National Council of Educational
Research and Training-The teacher education
Department of National Council of Educational
Research and Training, launched a plan for the
comprehensive improvement of teacher training
under the name "Intensive Teacher Education
Programme” (ITEP)
28. 9.National Commission
on Teachers-I (1983-85)
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• A four-year training course after senior
secondary, or preferably a 5-year course
leading to graduation and training is
recommended.
• For elementary teachers it is desirable to
have a two-year training course after Class
XII.
• Training curriculum for elementary teachers
should emphasize on mastering of
language and communication skills.
29. 10.National Policy on
Education(1986)
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• Teacher education is a continuous process and
its pre-service and in-service components are
inseparable.
• Improving the quality of teacher education
because it was the prerequisite to improve the
quality of school education.
• Establishment of District Institutes of Education
and Training (DIETs) in each district, up
gradation of 250 colleges of education as
Colleges of Teacher Education (CTEs), and
establishment of 50 Institutes of Advanced
Studies in Education (IASEs), and
strengthening of the State Councils of
Educational Research and Training (SCERTs).
30. Meaning
• NCTE - A programme of education,
research and training of persons to
teach from pre-primary to higher
education level. Teacher education is
a programme that is related to the
development of teacher proficiency
and competence that would enable
and empower the teacher to meet
the requirements of the profession
and face the challenges therein.
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31. contd
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• Teacher Education = Teaching Skills +
Pedagogical theory + Professional skills.
• Teaching skills - providing training and
practice in the different techniques,
approaches and strategies
• Pedagogical theory - philosophical,
sociological and psychological
32. Nature
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• Teacher education - continuous process
• Broad and comprehensive
• Ever-evolving and dynamic
• Interdependence of its Inputs, Processes
and Outputs.
33. Scope
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• Teacher Education at Different Levels of
Education
• Triangular basis of Teacher Education-
• Aspects of Teacher Education