Abstract
Rabindra Nath Tagore rightly said, “A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame.” Teacher education areas always feel the needs, requirements and demands of changes and improvements. Progress in contemporary societies motivates and at the same time forced the mankind to bring changes in education system which ultimately depends on the education of teacher i.e. teacher education. Teacher education does not depends on any single factor of development but is concerned with the intellectual, aesthetic, moral, physical, mental developments and above all professional developments and competencies of teachers .Innovations in teacher’s professional developments played a vital role in developing teacher's professional competencies. If we have faith that teachers are not born then we can develop the faith in one aspect that it is possible to make teacher. The policies, reports, committees, drafts and commissions etc. at different times on teacher education had thrown light on the way that can help in the development of professional competencies of a teacher to make him/her a competitive and skilled teacher. The future of any nation depends on the type of education system and the educators. The teacher should know the art as well as science of teaching including “tricks of the trade”. University Education Commission(1948),Secondary Education Commission(1953),The Committee on Higher Education for Rural Area(1954),Women’s Education(1959),The Review Committee on Education(1960), Bhagwan Sahai Committee Report (1972) ,The National Curriculum Framework (NCF, 2005),National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education (NCFTE, 2009) and Justice Verma Commission Report (2012) etc. after independence, throw light on the development of teacher’s competencies in every aspect . This paper will highlight affords made by different commission and committees ...etc to bring improvements in teacher education for the development of professional competencies and skills of teachers in India after independence of India.
Keywords
- Teacher Education
- Professional Development
- Competencies
- Innovations
- Contemporary
How to cite
Pathania Sudershan Kumar (2017). Teacher Education in Post Independent India: Affords to Bring Quality and Excellence Through Training and Professional Development IPEM JOURNAL OF INNOVATION IN TEACHER EDUCATION, 7(1), 1–6.