STUDY OF NEP 2020 IN RELATION TO TEACHER EDUCATION

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NEP 2020 gave more importance to teachers and teacher education. This policy recommend that  Incentives will be provided for teachers to take up teaching jobs in rural areas, the harmful practice of excessive teacher transfers will be halted. Teacher Eligibility Tests (TETs) will be strengthened The primary goal of overhauling the service environment and culture of schools will be to maximize. State/UT Governments may adopt innovative formats teachers will not be engaged any longer in work that is not directly related to teaching. Teachers will be given more autonomy. Teachers doing outstanding work must be recognized and promoted. A common guiding set of National Professional Standards for Teachers (NPST) will be developed by 2022. Teacher education will gradually be moved by 2030 into multidisciplinary colleges and universities. All B.Ed. programmes will include training in time-tested as well as the most recent techniques in pedagogy, including pedagogy with respect to foundational literacy and numeracy, multi-level teaching and evaluation, teaching children with disabilities, teaching children with special interests or talents, use of educational technology, and learner-centered and collaborative learning. All B.Ed. programmes will include strong practicum training in the form of in-classroom teaching at local schools. All B.Ed. programmes will also emphasize the practice of the Fundamental Duties (Article 51A) of the Indian Constitution along with other Constitutional provisions while teaching any subject or performing any activity. It will also appropriately integrate environmental awareness and sensitivity towards its conservation and sustainable development, so that environment education becomes an integral part of school curricula. Finally, in order to fully restore the integrity of the teacher education system, stringent action will be taken against substandard stand-alone Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs) running in the country, including shutting them down, if required. All stand-alone TEIs will be required to convert to multidisciplinary institutions by 2030, since they will have to offer the 4-year integrated teacher preparation programme. In order to maintain uniform standards for teacher education, the admission to pre-service teacher preparation programmes shall be through suitable subject and aptitude tests conducted by the National Testing Agency. Implementation of this Policy will be led by various bodies Yearly joint reviews of the progress of implementation of the policy, in accordance with the targets set for each action, will be conducted by designated teams constituted by MHRD and the States, and reviews will be shared with CABE. In the decade of 2030-40, the entire policy will be in an operational mode, following which another comprehensive review will be undertaken