Teacher education in 21st Century: Challenges and Suggestions

A very popular saying that ‘teacher is a builder of the nation’, is really true. Human being is a social creature. It born, grow and develop in society. Although society makes great influence upon the development of a man but society also depends upon individuals belonging to it for its development. Good education for a child is really need of society. In fact individual and social development of a child depends on quality of education that he receives. Good and proper education is not possible without efficient teachers. Teacher plays vital role in personality development of students . For a student he becomes a role model. For discharging such type of high responsibilities, a teacher must possess some qualities such as dutiful, aware, sensitive, knowledgeable, techno familiar, life time scholar, punctual, up to date etc. Some of these qualities areinborn but some may be developed through teacher education programs. Teacher education refers to the pre planned and well organized program including relevant policies and procedures that are designed to equip teachers with the emotional and professional skills which are required to perform effectively their task in classroom and school. Teacher training programs are helpful in inculcating such type of attitudes, behaviors, and skills that are required to a teacher to perform his duties properly. Effective teacher education programs are demand of the society. Although many institutions such as NCTE, NCERT, SCERT, DIETS etc have making great efforts for quality teacher education but there are still so many challenges before them. Few of them are problem of physical presence of all enrolled trainees, quality related issues, lack of integration of human and professional skills, lack of innovations, traditional nature of training programs, lack of researches on the local problems, lack of planning of required manpower in future, lack of trained teacher educators in teacher education institutions, professional attitude of management of training institutions instead of educational, unhealthy organizational environment of training institutions etc. Through the present article author has made an effort to reveal some challenges of teacher education and presented some suggestions accordingly.

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Dr. Sunil Kumar Bhagat (2021), Teacher education in 21st Century: Challenges and Suggestions, IPEMJOURNAL OF INNOVATIIN TEACHER EDUCATION, 6 (1), 33–37