Elementary Teacher Education Curriculum: Guidelines and Syllabi

Abstract

It is well known that the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is engaged in die task of improving school education. Since independence, all Committees and Commissions have laid stress on the better preparation of teachers through the existing pre-service courses being offered across the country. While teacher preparation area is one of the major concerns of the NCERT’s Department of Teacher Education, it, on its own, cannot change the entire scenario. The variety of teacher education that exists in the country today is far from satisfactory. To make a dent in the pre-service programme, the Department of Teacher Education has prepared guidelines and syllabus for both elementary and secondary teacher education. This, to my knowledge, is a continuation of the work which the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) had taken upon itself as far back as 1978. The document then prepared was called 'Teacher Education Curriculum—A Framework' which met with partial success, because its acceptance varied from zero to one hundred per cent