Capacity Building Program
Teacher Training
The state has 533 BRCs and more than 5,500 CRCs to provide on-site support for enhanced academic leadership and school management. The Program will support teachers and BRC and selected CRC coordinators with opportunities for upgrading knowledge, research opportunities and subject specific resources. The state encourages opportunities to offer teachers and teacher educator’s internship opportunities with other states. This has been designed to include school based assessments to judge the quality of teaching and learning through classroom observation and lesson planning. The overarching goal of the state in using ICT for teaching and learning is to align pre service teacher education and In Service CPD in Bihar with an agreed set of teaching standards and an agreed performance management system.
A. Pre service Teacher Training Pre-service education of teacher means, education of teachers before they enter into service as teacher. During this period of teacher education programmes, teaching practice goes side by side, while they are getting knowledge about theory papers.
A good deal of improvement in the teacher education programme is needed. Pre-service education is carried on for preparing different types of teachers. Pre-service teacher preparation is a collection of unrelated courses and field experience. Research based curriculum development of pre-service teacher education is yet to take roots. These programmes are intended to support and enhance teacher learning instil in them a greater degree of self confidence. The beginning teachers in this case learn from their practice and from the culture and norms of the unique school settings where in they have been placed and interact with these cultures.
It is important for teacher educators to learn the methodology of how to get in touch with the core qualities of a good teacher and how they can stimulate these qualities in student teachers. This will lead to a deeper involvement in the learning process of teacher educators as well as student teachers. The inclusion of appropriate content knowledge about essential qualities of a good teacher in relevant theory papers and practice of effective domain related traits in school situation for a longer duration could help promote these traits in student teachers. The teacher education programme needs to allow the space where in a teacher’s personality could be developed as someone who is reflective, introspective and capable of analysing his or her own life and the process of education at school so that after becoming a teacher, he becomes an agent of change.
B. In service Teacher Training The moment a teacher has completed his training in a college of education, it does not mean that he is now trained for all times to come. A teaching degree, like B.Ed. makes him enter into service as a teacher. Thereafter his job continues well only if he continues his studies every day in the classroom situations and outside the classroom, he comes across problems and side by side he is a expected to sort them out. There is need of more and more knowledge, more and more education for making him a better teacher.
There are formal an informal programmes of in-service education organized from time to time. The higher authorities concerned with education want to ensure that the standards of education are properly maintained. That is possible only if the teachers refresh their knowledge and keep it up to the mark. The different agencies, therefore keep on organizing teacher education programmes for enriching the knowledge of teachers and also for over all proficiency and betterment.
According to Lawrence, “In-service education is the education a teacher receives after he has entered to teaching profession and after he has had his education in a teacher’s college. It includes all the programmes – educational, social and others in which the teacher takes a virtual part, all the extra education which he receives at different institutions by way of refresher and other professional courses and travels and visits which he undertakes.
