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SEMESTER -IV
PAPER -3 :
Perspectives, Research and Issues in
Teacher Education
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S.No |
UNIT
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BY
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1 |
UNIT -1 |
Perspectives and Policy on
Teacher Education
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1 |
Teacher
Development - Concept, Factors influencing
teacher development -
personal, contextual. |
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2 |
Teacher
Expertise - Berliner's stages of development of
a teacher. |
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3 |
Approaches
to teacher development - self-directed
development, cooperative or collegial
development, change-oriented staff development. |
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4 |
National
and state policies on teacher education - a
review |
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2 |
UNIT -2 |
Agencies of Teacher
Education
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1 |
Different
organizations and agencies involved in teacher
education - their roles,functions and networking |
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2 |
In-service
teacher education under SSA and RMSA |
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3 |
Preparation
of teachers for art, craft, music, physical
education and special
education - need, existing programmes and
practices |
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4 |
nitiatives
of the NGOs in designing and implementing
in-service teacher
education programmes |
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3 |
UNIT -3 |
Structure and Management
of Teacher Education
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1 |
Structure
of teacher education system in India - its
merits and limitations |
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2 |
Universalization
of Secondary Education and its implications for
teacher education at the secondary level |
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3 |
Preparing
teachers for different contexts of school
education - structural and
substantive arrangements in the TE programmes. |
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4 |
Vertical
mobility of a school teacher - avenues
Professional development of teachers and teacher
educators - present practices and avenues |
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5 |
Systemic
factors influencing the quality of pre and
in-service education of
secondary school teachers |
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4 |
UNIT - 4 |
Research in Teacher
Education
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1 |
Research on
effectiveness of teacher education programmes -
characteristics of effective teacher education
programme |
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2 |
Methodological issues of research in teacher
education - direct versus indirect inference,
generalisability of findings, laboratory versus
field research, scope and limitations of
classroom observation |
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3 |
Trends of
research in teacher education - review of a few
recent research studies in
teacher education with reference design,
findings and policy implications |
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5 |
UNIT -5 |
Problems and Issues in
Teacher Education
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1 |
Challenges
in professional development of teachers -
relevance to school
education, improperly qualified teacher
educators, assurance of quality of teacher
education programmes, |
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2 |
Sufficiency
of subject matter knowledge for teaching at the
senior secondary level, |
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3 |
Single
subject versus multiple subject teachers -
implications for subject
combinations in initial teacher preparation |
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4 |
Issues
related to enhancing teacher competence,
commitment and teacher
performance |
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5 |
Partnerships in secondary teacher education -
TEI with school and community, Government
Agencies, University, with NGOs, between teacher
education institutions preparing teachers for
different levels of school education |
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