Quality Concerns in Secondary Teacher Education

Abstract

The NCTE has an important task of maintaining the quality of teacher education through a planned and co-ordinated development of teacher education system throughout the country and regulation and proper maintenance of norms and standards in the teacher education system. Accordingly, after a lot of deliberation and exercise, norms and standards for different levels of teacher education institutions have been published by the NCTE for use by the applicants for recognition. These norms have details of physical facilities, staff, etc. that should be provided by the institution to merit recognition by the NCTE. The present booklet restricts itself to the discussion on quality concerns in teacher education institutions based on the NCTE norms and standards for the same. It has significant sections about objectives of teacher education, curriculum and its transaction, norms for different aspects of teacher education including that of quality.