Bihar government has approached the World Bank for loan to train school teachers in the state.

Teacher training and development is fast emerging as a key area where more attention and emphasis is required to ensure the educational standards go further up in Indian colleges and universities. The west has a fairly long history in focusing on academia development and perhaps for the same reason considered as a Mecca for students. Many institutes in the United States and Europe have devised short-term courses in learning, teaching and assessment to equip the teaching staff with techniques that help them deliver better.

As Elizabeth Jones writes in Growing Teachers: Partnerships in Staff Development (1993): “Teachers learn about teaching and learning by playing the teacher script, observing what happens, and discussing all the possibilities with other teachers. In this process, they come to see themselves as people who know thereby people capable of making appropriate choices for themselves and for children.”

In Training Teachers: A Harvest of Theory and Practice (1994), Margie Carter and Deb Curtis refer to the need for teachers to examine their own filters – the experiences and conditioning they bring to a teaching situation as well as examining their roles and strategies to see what role they play in their interactions with children.

In the United Kingdom, more teachers are to be trained ‘on the job’ rather than in universities, as announced by education secretary Micheal Gove recently. “The impact of these changes on initial teacher training will be revolutionary,” said Gove. A study by Graham Gibbs of Oxford University and Martin Coffey of University of Leicester – to see the impact of training of university teachers on their teaching skills – concludes that training can indeed increase the extent to which they adopt student focus. “Training of university teachers is now established in every university in the United Kingdom, Norway and Sri Lanka and is becoming increasingly common in many other countries. Click here to read more...

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