Best Practices in Teacher Education

Abstract

Based on the recommendations of NEP 2020on teacher education and training, a national curriculum framework for teacher education NCFTE2021 will be drafted to guide all teacher education programs.¹ The 4 year integrated B.Ed. will be the minimal degree qualification for school teachers and is conceived as multidisciplinary and integrated dual bachelor’s degree. NEP 2020 Envisages that all teacher education programs will include training in time tested as well as the most recent techniques in pedagogy, with respect to foundational literacy and numeracy, multi level teaching and evaluation, teaching children with disabilities, teaching children with special interests, use of Educational Technology, learner cantered education and collaborative learning. All B.Ed. programs will include strong in-class room practical training. It will emphasize the practice of the fundamental duties along with other constitutional provisions while teaching any subject or providing any activity. In this context a revamping of teacher education curriculum with best practices including multi disciplinary and integrated practices shall be in force. This reformation starts with the stringent measures of admission procedures through aptitude tests by National Testing Agency (NTA) and net working with Govt and private schools for better collaborative activities.

Innovative pedagogical practices, designing curriculum credible evaluation systems and multidisciplinary practices will be among best practices in teacher education. For this to happen, theory must be integrated with continuous graded practice. School university collaboration can assist schools to be more humanistic and can help increase the degrees to which teacher training programs are practical in nature and produce reflective practitioners. Collaboration will help to develop new courses in pedagogy for future teachers to conduct educational research. Global dimension to education through OECD, UNESCO AND UNISEF² will explore more critical and creative thinking and thus develop new methods and evaluation practices². More accessibility to ICT and online courses will explore new dimensions to student teachers. Best practices should aim interstate, national and global collaborations for a vibrant curriculum to explore the potential of student teachers.