Teacher training is on our minds.. Set up flagship centres of excellence in teacher education: Unlike professional training institutes such as IITs, IIMs and AIIMS, currently there is no institute for teacher education that is highly aspirational and that sets the gold standard for the ecosystem. As we look at consolidating our existing capacity, we also need to build centres of excellence in teacher education within our best central universities. Teaching being a practice-based profession, these centres of excellence must be integrated with model lab schools (just as medical institutes such as AIIMS are integrated with a hospital) to enable continuous pedagogical research that can then be made available to the rest of the ecosystem. The quality of our teachers is the most basic determinant of the quality of our education system. We hope that the soon-to-be-launched Madan Mohan Malviya Teachers Training programme will take the requisite steps to ensure that our teachers receive the required direction and guidance that can develop them into great educators.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:25:58 +0000
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