Teacher Education: Perspective in Uttarakhand

Overview & Synopsis

Uttarakhand state is producing large numbers of primary and secondary teachers every year. Teacher training programmers face inadequate facilities for teacher educators and teacher trainees. Professional preparation of teacher educators and trainee teachers needs to be made more relevant and effective. The government and university should develop some procedure of regular monitoring of the faculty positions in the self-financed and other regular institutions offering B.Ed. courses. An institutional vision strategy and action plan for the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) and for the District Institutes of Education and Training (DIET) is needed. This strategy should begin with a focus on professional development of teacher educators and further research on teacher education.