"Often it is held that teacher educators are worst teachers since they hardly prepare own lesson plans and continue be poor role models for their pupil teachers. Many reports indicate that teacher education in India in shambles because of low quality of classroom processes of the teacher educators that revolves around book-teaching and book-learning practices emphasized. However, when exposed new teacher education curriculum and classroom processes in the study unit formats, the quality of teacher education improves as experienced in seminar," said Jaipur-based educator and researcher whose paper for national conference on quality of teacher education held at the Punjabi University Patiala.
According to him, quality of teacher education needs to be seen as continuous betterment and improvement of the teacher education system and classroom performance of teachers through formative evaluation and corrective feedback cycles. which is possible through teacher development units as projected by his abstract as follows and reference of which is also accessible at Google Scholar.
Title of Paper
Teacher Development Units: An Innovation for Bettering Teacher Favoured Significantly by Educational Functionaries
Author
Kishore, L. (2013)
Conference
National Conference on Quality Concerns in Teacher Education
Abstract
It is being exceedingly felt that the quality of teacher education determines the quality of teachers and classroom processes through innovative ways of teacher preparation in pre-service, in-service and distant modes of learning. The paper discusses a recent innovation of Teacher Education Units (TDUs) for capacity building of both educators and teachers through specially created units that integrate content, pedagogy and classroom organization. The TDU-based teacher preparation designs of the Open University, UK, under TESSA-Project in Africa and recently launched TESS-India have been analysed. The reactions of the participants (N=70, mixed group of educators, teachers and administrators) at a recent (November 2012) four-day workshop for developing TDUs under TESS-India project revealed significantly favourable reactions of the participants (p<0.01, DF=1) towards the innovation. The implication of the micro-study is that the District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs) can revitalize themselves by taking the lead in making use of TDUs for teacher preparation in an integrated way.
Keywords: classroom organization, integrated teaching process, pedagogy, teacher preparation, Teacher Development Units
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