Trained teachers have always been the first and firm choice of all societies. They all have shown their preferences for the type of teachers they wanted to have. Teachers can seldom be trained alike, as the content and methods of teacher training differ from country to country. It is teachers and good quality teachers at that who make all the difference in classroom instruction.
The book offers the picture of India's contemporary teacher education scenario. Having identified areas of research, teacher educators took up the challenge in the right earnest and came out with the ground reality behind current teacher education practices. The book would prove to be useful for research scholars, students and policy makers alike.
R.P.Singh (born 30th June, 1932) retired from the NCERT where he was, at the time of retirement, Chairman, Education Research and Innovations Committee, a MHRD Committee to support educational research; Head Dept of Teacher Education and looked after all the Journals of the NCERT. A Senior Fulbright Fellow he holds his Masters and doctoral degrees from the University of London. He has been attached as a Senior ICCSR Fellow to Nehru Memorial and Museum Library and to JNU once each. His books have won him awards both in Education and History. He also prepared a Curriculum for the NCTE titled 'Teaching Teachers for a Knowledge Society'. Widely traveled he has worked on International Research projects mainly for the UNESCO.
Introduction
1. On Getting Open a B.Ed. College
Jagdeesh Chaudhary
2. Staffing in Self-financed Colleges
Kalpana Gupta
3. Teachers Training Model: A Theoretical Framework
Beena Shah
4. From Blackboard to the Wikis: Metamorphosis in InstructionalAids of Teaching
M. Vasundhra Saxena
5. Innovative Feed-Back Devices for Effective Practice Teachingin Teacher Education
Mridula Bhadouria, Rashmi Gore and Kirti Mishra
6. Differentiated Instructions
A.P. Sharma
7. Practice Teaching: How to Make it Effective
Umesh. T. Bagade, Vivek Arya and Alok Pachauri
8. On Preparing Curriculum for Effective Teachers
Sunita Sundriyal and B.R. Kukreti
9. Achievement in Social Studies Subject of ClassX: Hindi andEnglish Medium Students having Equal Intelligence andSocio-economic Background
Poonam Singh Kharwar
10. Quality without Infrastructural Facilities: A Miracle ofSelf-financing Teacher Education Institutions
Gaurav Singh
11. The New Generation Academicians: Facilitators, Not MerelyTeachers
V.N. Laturkar
12. Evaluation and Assessment: Evaluation Procedure inTeacher Education System
J.D. Singh
13. Evaluation: Quality Teaching and Practice
Anupam Bhardwaj
14. ICT in Classrooms: E-Content for an Effective TeachingLearning
F.L. Antony Gracious
15. E-Learning in Teacher Education: Future Prospects
Shubhra Mangal
16. E-Learning: The Promise of Online Education
K.C. Joshi
17. Impact of ICT in Education: The Role of the Teacher andTeacher Training
N.G. Ghosh
18. Therapeutic Effect of CBT and Traditional Method in Remediationof Articulation Problems of HI: A Comparative Study
Beena Shah and Tripti Khare
19. Online Courses for Teacher Educators: A Promising Dimension forIn-service Education
Arti Bhatnagar and Divya Sharma
20. Teachers Training through Distance Mode: Need to SustainQuality
Nalini Srivastava and Pratibha Rastogi
21. The Moga Teacher Training Institute
Manisha Minocha
22. A Framework for Assessment of Innovation in Teacher Education
Nidhi Agarwal, Monika Verma and Puneet
23. Effective Strategies for Educating Pre-College Hispanics andNative Americans
Surendra P. Singh
24. English Language Teaching in a Bilingual Context
Gunjan Chaturvedi
25. National Council of Teacher Education: The Apex Body NCTE:Its Paradoxes and Contradictions
Jitendra Sharma
26. Inviting Suggestions to do Nothing: Fooling People the NCTE Way
R.P. Singh
27. Future of NCTE: Can We Sell the Milch Cow?
C.P.S. Chauhan
28. NCTE: Boon or Bane
Somu Singh and Ranjeev Kumar
Annexure - Anand Sarup Committee Report
Contributors
Index