ED113: Professionalism in Teacher Education

Course Objectives:

On completion of this course the students will be able to:

Understand concept of Profession and Professionalism

Analyse and apply professional attitude, skills and values

Applyprofessional ethics in their teaching process

Know and understand policy perspectives in teacher education for being professional

Understand role of ICT towards professional development

Understand various teacher education programmes and challenges involved

UNIT-I: Understanding Teaching as a Profession

Concept of Profession and Professionalism

Professional attitude, professional knowledge, skill and values

Role of Code of Conduct in maintaining Professionalism

Professional development through interpersonal relations

UNIT-II: Continuing Professional Development in Teaching

Policy perspectives and recommendations regarding teacher education made by various

commissions and committees

Maintaining standards in teacher education – Curriculum Framework: NCFTE 2009,

NCF2005

Role of ICT towards professional development

Unit-III: Teacher Education Programmes and Agencies

Components of professionalism in Pre-service and In-service teacher education

programme

Agencies of Teacher Education- NCERT, SCERT, IASEs, CTEs, DIETs in creating

Professionalism

Role of NCTE in imparting quality of teacher education with an emphasis on

Professionalism

Quality assurance in teacher education: challenges and interventions

Text Books:

1. Beth Hurst and Ginny Reading. What Every Teacher Should Know About:

Professionalism in Teaching (3rd Edition), Pearson; 3 edition (May 18, 2008).

2. Essential teaching skills by Kyriacou, C. Blackwell, Oxford, 1991

3. Nick Packard & Phil Race, 2000 tips for teachers.2007

4. Aggarwal, J. C. Teacher and Education in a Developing Society-5th Edition.

5. P.K. Sahoo (2010).Professionalism in Teacher Education: Contemporary Perspectives.

References Books:

1. National Curriculum Framework (2005). New Delhi: NCERT.

2. National curriculum framework for teacher education towards preparing professional and

human teacher (2009). New Delhi, NCTE

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3. Position paper national focus group on Teacher education for curriculum renewal.

NCERT, New Delhi.

4. MHRD (1986): National Policy on Education, New Delhi. Govt. of India.

5. Ministry of Education (1948-49): Report of the University Education commission. New

Delhi, government of India.

6. Ministry of Education (1953): Report of the Secondary Education Commission (1952-

53), New Delhi. Government of India.

7. Becoming a secondary school teacher by Baumann, AS, Broomfield, A. & Roughton, L.

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1997