Teacher education and training

Niti aayog strategy @75

Objective

Enforcing minimum teacher standards through rigorous teacher eligibility tests and criteria for the induction of teachers.
Improving in-service teacher training system.
Increasing teacher accountability for learning outcomes of students.
Addressing the problem of teacher vacancies and teacher absenteeism.

Current Situation

National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) is the regulator for teacher education in the country.
Inadequate accreditation and grading process followed by NCTE has resulted in bad quality of teachers at primary and higher educational level.
There is a vacancy of 9 lakh teachers in schools, of which 4.2 lakh teacher vacancies are in SSA schools.
Thirty-three per cent of schools do not meet the pupil-teacher ratio.

Constraints

insufficient regulatory monitoring of teacher education institutions.
eligibility test in some states are not adequately robust.
inadequate in-service training programs as well as lack of public funding support.

Way Forward

committee to develop transparent/objective and rigorous criteria to recognize institutions.
Fraudulent or dysfunctional teacher education institutions should be closed as soon as possible.
In-service teacher professional development programs should be redesigned with continuous progressive development such as peer-learning, demonstration classes, sabbaticals for research/advanced studies etc. eg. NISHTHA
The Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission for Teachers & Teaching to “build a strong professional cadre of teachers”, should be taken up in mission mode.
national electronic teacher registry to bring together employers and job aspirants
States should test teachers tri-annually on the same test designed for the children they are teaching which will ensure competency of the teacher.
Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) across states should be strengthened as per central TET through standardization of results, quality benchmarking of testing-items and extending the TET for teachers at pre-school and classes at 9-12 levels.
Each state must develop a teacher-demand forecast model for all levels, starting from elementary to higher education based on which new training institutions can be instituted.

Utkarsh Dwivedi AIR-5 PSIR Notes, Strategy and ANSWER COPIES

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