The factors keep changing at different levels of education.

Prof. Parvin Sinclair (Director, NCERT) says if one aspires to be a school teacher, one needs to empathise with children

 

Q. What will be the teacher-development methods?

A. National Council Of Educational Research And Training (NCERT) has formed National Council For Teacher Education (NCTE). It is a regulatory body that has created a set of norms in accordance to which it regulates and advises. It has also developed a curriculum framework for teachers, which is slowly being put in place. We have developed a BEd programme and offer a two-year internship, which is well-monitored without being intrusive. We are also starting an online teacher training programme.

As there are many untrained teachers – recruited to fill vacant posts – in-service education training has been in focus. Every state government is trying to deal with the demand of in-service teacher training.

We also find there are different people with different calibre in different states. Hence, teacher eligibility test (TET) was brought in; central teacher eligibility test (CTET) is for the central level and state-level teacher eligibility test (STET). Surprisingly, most people failed it. But, hopefully something better will come out of the experiments that have been frequently done over the years.

Q. What is the difference between India and the top-performing nations in the education sector ?

A. There can be no comparison with any country that has a population 1/100th of of India, spread out differently and has huge monetary resources. We cannot simply implement their best practices because the economical, social and geographic conditions are different. Instead, we can only try to customise and adapt those practices according to our requirements.

National Human Resource Developement (NHRD) has formed a national advisory committee council that has groups looking into curriculum in context of the RTE Act and how to get them in place with the states. The prime minister has his own advisory council that has a constant focus on education. Along with the SSA (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan), RMSA (Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan) is also being developed. Click here to read more...

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