The document discusses the need for quality indicators in teacher education programs. It outlines several factors that determine quality, including infrastructure, teacher skills, and use of technology. It also discusses how the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) focuses on impact on students, performance improvement, and policy importance when evaluating education institutions. Finally, it proposes using a five-point scale to assess quality by evaluating physical infrastructure, system efficiency, and faculty recruitment.
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1. Need of Quality indicators in Teacher Education Programmes Dr.K.Nachimuthu Asst. Professor, Dept. of Education, Periyar University, Salem, TN [email_address] www. drknmuthu.com
2. INTRODUCTION The word quality comes from the Latin word quails which means, what kind of. The British Standard Institution (1991) defines, as the totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs .
3. DIFFERENT QUALITIES Quality has different ideas. (i) quality as absolute ( eg. Taj Mahal Pic); (ii) quality as relative (eg. IIT standards); (iii) quality as a process (eg. HP printer); (iv) quality as culture (eg. teaching process in Gnanamani Institutions).
4. QUALITY - TEACHER EDUCATION To identify the needs of our schools (Classroom, Infrastructure, Buildings, Playground, Electricity, Water facilities), To identify the needs of our teachers and the teacher educators (teaching degree, skill of teaching, using technological devices) To evolve a framework to provide a systematic recording tool for documentation of their quality development (Hostel, library, Internet)
5. NAAC CONCENTRATES ON - Impact on students; Improving performance; Policy importance; Susceptibility to being influenced by the school system and other agencies; (v) Scientific soundness; (vi) Face validity and Content validity and (vii) Feasibility of any educational institution.
6. OBJECTIVES OF NAAC Grade institutions of teacher (higher) education and their programmes Stimulate the academic environment and quality of teaching and research in these institutions Help institutions realize their academic objectives Promote necessary changes, innovations and reforms in all aspects of the institutions working for the above purpose; and Encourage innovations, self- evaluation and accountability in teacher (higher) education
7. QUALITY OF TEACHING PROGRAMMES Accountability Attractiveness of image Brand maintenance Competition Improve responsibilities Parents satisfaction Standard maintenance
8. QUALITY ASSESSMENT We can check the (a) physical Infrastructures (building & equipments); (b) system efficiency (students); and (c) faculty recruitment (teach & non-teaching staff) through the five point quality scale with the rating of needs must attention, can do more; good; better and best levels .
9. CONLCUSION Today's students live in a global, knowledge-based age. They deserve teachers whose practice embraces the best that technology can bring to learning. Critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making as cognitive skills that children should be adept at. Preparing teachers & giving the learner better opportunities to create new knowledge