Quality Enhancement in Teacher Education
Quality Enhancement in Teacher Education - Innovative classroom practices and teaching techniques
Shah Komal Ashok Research Scholar. RVS College Of Education Sulur, CBE.
Teacher education courses deal with both theory and practical subjects. The teacher education curriculum framed has changed little over the years. While the children and their learning abilities have been ever changing, in teaching only the age old methods are still practised. Though teaching has moved from the teacher centric learning to child centric learning, teacher education still lies somewhere in between the two. In the present scenario this has formed a wide disparity between the education system and teaching education curriculum. Even today, the trainee teachers use the age old black board and chart display in a traditional way. And more importantly most of the classroom management techniques followed by the teachers are arrived through their own experiences, creativity and trial and error method. There is a lot more scope of including scientific and systematic approach to classroom management, based on child psychology and learning theories. Thus a modest attempt is made through this presentation to explore possibilities of including new teaching practices; whereby enhancing teacher education quality.
Paper Presentation Introduction The teaching education curriculum prescribes usage of many instructional skills and tools. These skills are discussed in detail and also practically tried in the teaching practice. However for these instructional skills and tools to be transacted in the classroom successfully, classroom management is a pre requisite. Our teacher curriculum touches about classroom management at only a surface level. Whereas, the need for these techniques are at a higher level. Marzano research says “teachers’ actions in their classrooms have twice the impact on their students’ achievements as do policies regarding
Shah Komal Ashok Research Scholar. RVS College Of Education Sulur, CBE.
Teacher education courses deal with both theory and practical subjects. The teacher education curriculum framed has changed little over the years. While the children and their learning abilities have been ever changing, in teaching only the age old methods are still practised. Though teaching has moved from the teacher centric learning to child centric learning, teacher education still lies somewhere in between the two. In the present scenario this has formed a wide disparity between the education system and teaching education curriculum. Even today, the trainee teachers use the age old black board and chart display in a traditional way. And more importantly most of the classroom management techniques followed by the teachers are arrived through their own experiences, creativity and trial and error method. There is a lot more scope of including scientific and systematic approach to classroom management, based on child psychology and learning theories. Thus a modest attempt is made through this presentation to explore possibilities of including new teaching practices; whereby enhancing teacher education quality.
Paper Presentation Introduction The teaching education curriculum prescribes usage of many instructional skills and tools. These skills are discussed in detail and also practically tried in the teaching practice. However for these instructional skills and tools to be transacted in the classroom successfully, classroom management is a pre requisite. Our teacher curriculum touches about classroom management at only a surface level. Whereas, the need for these techniques are at a higher level. Marzano research says “teachers’ actions in their classrooms have twice the impact on their students’ achievements as do policies regarding