The document discusses the inadequacies in current teacher education programs, highlighting deficiencies in specialization and institutional capacity for preparing teacher educators. It emphasizes the need for broader training that incorporates various disciplines and contexts relevant to education, advocating for a two-year M.Ed. program with specializations. Additionally, it calls for a new qualification framework and opportunities for lateral entry into educational studies for those outside the traditional teacher education route.

2. Teacher education encompasses
teaching skills pedagogical
theory and professional skills
W.H KILPATRICK

3. The existing institutional capacity for
preparing teacher educators is
abysmally low.
Current M.Ed. Programmes do not
enable specialisation at different
levels of school education.

4.  The difficulty is exacerbated (made worse)
by the absence of degree and post-degree
programmes in primary/elementary teacher
education.

5. It is important to look at the specialisation
profile required for teacher educators in view
of the fact that a variety of foundational and
school subject disciplines need to be
represented.
School teachers' preparation lacks of a deep
engagement with socio-cultural, political and
economic contexts of school education.

6. In the light of the above, the two year M.Ed.
programme should become adequate with
provision to branch out into specialisations
in curriculum studies; pedagogic studies;
policy, finance and foundational studies.

7.  Currently, there is also a paucity of talented
faculty with disciplinary specialisation in social
science education, science education, language
education and mathematics education.
 It is important, therefore, that a more broad-
based essential qualification framework be
formulated for teacher educators.

8. Lateral entry needs to be provided for those
who wish to undertake educational studies
other than through the teacher education degree
route.
They should be encouraged to pursue education
as a research endeavour without necessarily
requiring a degree in teacher education as an
entry qualification.

9.  “If you educate a boy , you
educate one individual. If you
educate a girl , you educate the
whole family and if you educate
a teacher , you can educate the
whole community.”

10. THANK YOU