Challenges Facing by Teacher Educators in India: Present Scenario

Abstract

In India, Secondary teacher training programme changed from one year course to two year course. The National Educational Policy and different commission undertook, over time, a range of reviews and published findings and recommendations in a series of Memoranda, papers and reports on Teacher Education and on the basis of these reviews and findings a significant impact occurred on teacher education.Current developments in Teacher Education are indebted much to the content of these early writings. There was a response to changes in learning and teaching methodologies or programmes. This has been accepted as a positive change in supporting the professional learning of teachers and would-be teachers. There are a number of perceived challenges of such change, particularly at time of rapid change in the Education field due to globalization and digital technology. This paper touches upon these changes and examines the development of secondary teacher education within the changing policy framework that includes an enhanced approach to curriculum delivery, new requirements for teacher education and new professional standards for teachers.