 Hello, I welcome you all once again to my channel explore education. I am Dr. Rashmi Singh, Assistant Professor Department of Education SS Kanna Girls to the college University of Allahabad. And this time I'm going to discuss with you all about teacher education, the status of teacher education in India. If you have ever read the NEP 2020 on teacher education, the first line it has been written there according to Justice Verma committee and all. So, I thought that first of all I have to discuss with you all Justice Verma committee and then after that I am discussing I will discuss the NEP 2020 on teacher education. So, firstly we have to know what are the recommendations, what were the recommendations of Justice Verma committee on teacher education and then we will come to the recommendations of national education policy 2020. Okay, so lecture will be bilingual mode and it must be useful for you all no doubt. So, first of all, we are only talking about the recommendations of Justice Verma committee. So, from the name of Justice Verma committee, you will know that Justice Sahab is its chairman, Verma Justice JC Verma, I think. So, the Honourable Court, the Supreme Court had gathered this committee that you give your recommendations on the status of teacher education. So, this has divided our recommendations into three parts, four parts, five, total five. First is the quality of pre-service teacher education, then quality of in-service teacher education, then they have talked about teacher audit and then they have talked about how to strengthen the NCE and then general recommendations. So, under these five heads, you can understand these recommendations. Why did the Supreme Court gather these recommendations? It means that someone must have made a decision or made a mistake. So, in order to correct it, you can google it all. We are only talking about recommendations here so that we can cover them as soon as possible. So, keep in mind one more thing. You should always keep in mind that after 2010, all the committee commissions have been gathered. They are all in this light, in this light that what has happened in 2010 has come right to education. So, we should always keep in mind that whatever commission or committee will be gathered after 2010, it will be in the main umbrella term, right to education. So, this is 2012, it means that right to education has been applied in your country. So, pre-service teacher education, that is, the trainees, the weird trainees, for them, the in-service teacher education that has been applied, how is it necessary to be improved for them? So, the commission has said for pre-service teacher education that the commission recommends that the government should increase its investment in establishing teacher education institutions and increase the institutional capacity of teacher preparation, especially in the deficit states. He has made this argument, he saw this argument that the state is something like this in the country. The deficit where there are no proper institutions, there is no infrastructure, the condition of teachers is not good, the teacher is being recruited, they are well capable and well, you can say, they are not qualified. So, the commission has said that we should invest, we should invest in the teacher education institutions, we should increase our investment, which increases the institutional capacity of teacher preparation and the deficit states, especially those deficit states. Then, teacher education should be a part of the higher education system. He has said that education should be a part of higher education. The duration of the program of teacher education needs to be enhanced. Since when is it being said that the duration of teacher education should be increased? It used to be a year ago, and after 2014, 2015, 2015, it has become a part of the program. So, he is saying that when you are in one year, then what happens? Practice is also there, teaching is also there, psychological practicals are also there, so we cannot do much emphasis on any part. And if you are a professional trainer, then it has to be enhanced duration. So, he said that the education commission, the Kuthari commission, in the year of 2014, he submitted a report saying that the duration of teacher education should be increased, but it has not been increased yet, so increase it now. We have to keep in mind that this is a committee 11 years ago, and as soon as you read the NEP 2020, there are only 11-13 points in the teacher education, and the first line is according to the Justice Verma committee. So, maybe I thought that I should discuss with you the Justice Verma committee, what it had already said, what it has said, so now how can we improve our teacher education? It is desirable that new teacher education institutions are located in multi- and interdisciplinary academic environments. Look, all these things are being done earlier. If we had not read the Justice Verma committee, then we feel that NEP 2020 is saying this for the first time, but it has already been said that the teacher education institutions are located in a multi- and interdisciplinary academic environment, that is, they have ended the stand alone. This is also being said, your NEP 2020, that there should not be any institution of teacher education. There are more courses going on there, multi- and interdisciplinary academic environment. This will have significant implications for the redesigning of norms and standards of various teacher education courses specified by the NCE. We have discussed about the NCE, the National Council of Teacher Education is saying that this will have significant implications. It will have some significant implications. The NCE will make the courses, the norms and standards to redesign them. It is saying that current teacher education programs may be redesigned keeping new recommendations in the NCE FTE 2009, National Curriculum Curricular Framework for Teacher Education 2009. What is the National Curriculum Framework in 2009? We will make a curriculum, we will make a national body, you can do a little flexibility in your state according to your local conditions, but you have to follow the same basic structure. So, it is also made for school education, NCE FTE, it is also made for teacher education, but in the teacher education, it is a matter of sorrow that we have not got any framework from 2009. NEP 2020 said that we have given it a national framework, now school education is made according to itself, teacher education is made according to its own framework. School education has been made in 2023, but teacher education has not been made yet. For teacher education, NCE FTE has not been made yet. So, it is a matter of sorrow that it has been three years, policy has come, teacher education has not been given its framework yet. So, in 2009, NCE FTE was coming, so it said that you can redesign your curriculum according to 2009. In keeping with the recommendations of the Education Commission, every pre-service teacher education institution may have a dedicated school attached to it as a laboratory where student teachers get opportunities to experiment with new ideas and hone their capacities and skills to become reflective practitioners. Look, and this Education Justice Fund Committee has repeatedly quoted the Education Commission. Look, the Quotari Commission has said that you have not done it yet, now do it. What to do? Every place where B.H. teacher trainings are taught, where teachers are trainees, where prospective teachers are made, they are told that they should have a school so that they can teach there, practice teaching there, to write their education, how we can do something new, we want to change something, we want to experiment. Why? Because we don't get many things at school where we send our trainees to teach. And then the school authority doesn't let us change their timetable, they don't let us teach according to their needs. They say that wherever we teach, our course is going on, we teach the way you teach, otherwise our syllabus will not complete. All these practical challenges come when you are doing B.H. or doing it. So, they said that you should have your school with you, you can do it according to yourself. Then there is a need to establish a national level academic body for continual reflection and analysis of teacher education programs, their norms and standards, development of reading material and faculty development of teacher educators. They said, make a national level academic body, look at all this. Then as a matter of policy, the first professional degree or diploma in teacher education should be offered only in face to face mode. When I read this, I felt that we are now talking face to face or blended and all these things. We feel that we are going to go to the new blended, right? But since we don't study, we don't know what is being said, we won't be able to know most of the people's home I have things. So, the Justice Verma Committee has used the material in the blended learning in 2012. So, they said that you should teach teacher education in face to face mode. Distance learning programs and use of blended learning material may be developed and used for continuing professional development of school teachers and teacher educators. So, they said, the concept of CPD is continuous professional development. Now we have a lot of work to do and we have to learn something new. Then you use blended learning material that you don't have to take a leave, you don't have to take a DLCL so that you can learn it. But the normal education is done in face to face mode. This is what Justice Verma Committee and use of blended learning material is being done 11 years ago. Even earlier, you will learn something else. The institutional capacity should be increased for the preparation of teacher educators. The issue is that the more you make teachers, the more they make their students. And if every teacher makes what they want, it's not like that. There is a need to make the master in education program of two-year duration with the provision to branch out for specialization in curriculum and pedagogic studies, foundation studies, management, policy and finance and other areas of emerging concerns in education. They said, you should do the master in education for two years and add specialization. Then NCT needs to develop broad based norms for the qualification of teachers and educators. The idea of creating opportunities for teaching practitioners to teach in teacher education institutions as visiting faculty may be explored. Faculty development programs for teacher education should be institutionalized. That is, if your teaching practitioner is going on, you can make visiting faculty a faculty development program. There is a need for enhanced investment in the promotion of research in education in general in the area of education. If you invest more money in education, it will be a good investment and it will be a good research. Especially in education. So that they can know what is the purpose and what solutions are possible. Then how to improve in-service teacher education? We have already made a good teacher but the teacher has come to the service so the government has required to appoint an expert group to develop a policy framework for in-service teacher education. And all existing teacher training institutions imparting in-service teacher education need to be strengthened. All the in-service teacher training institutions where in-service teacher education programs are going on, you should strengthen them. Make it a comprehensive program so that the continuous professional development of secondary school teachers can continue. And in the case of teacher performance education with the state government and other state holders may develop a framework for the assessment of teacher performance keeping in view the guidelines and strengthening the school. In this report, the guidelines that have been given to keep in mind the performance of the teacher should be an encouragement so that we have a accountability to do good work. Otherwise, after coming to the service we stop studying, right? That is the regulatory functions of NCT. The better the NCT will be the better it will work. So they are saying that NCT should review its norms and standards for the teacher education program. They should make it a guideline so that the innovative teacher education program can be recognized. They should make it a framework so that the institutions can be inspected. They should tell parameters so that the quality can be developed in the institutions. They should give a grant and make an assessment. Then NCT should formulate appropriate regulations for implementing section 17 of the NCTE Act 1993. You can see what is written in the section of Act 1993. He said that he should make a teacher education assessment in an accreditation center. When you read it, you will know what is NEAC? Actually, NEAC is wrong. Teacher education assessment and accreditation center is wrong. Constituent committee to prepare a comprehensive framework of accreditation. How much work do you have to do to improve? Generally, the NCT should notify regulations to govern inspections of teacher education. In order to ensure accountability is essential to establish a vigilance in the NCT. The NCT should inform that the work should be done so that we can run a teacher education. What are the general recommendations? The commission recommends the constitution of the committee to enable the setting up of structural mechanisms and processes for instituting each of the recommendations outlined in this report. In this report, we will discuss how we will implement it and how we will implement it. That's all. The Justice Verma committee was mentioned in 2012. There are a few more in the NEP 2020. Every new committee that has come before is a little ahead of the recommendations. You have already said that you have not done it yet. Justice Verma committee is quoting the commission again and again. In-service teacher education teacher audit for in-service teacher education for NCT and how it will work. Now we can discuss what NEP 2020 said about teacher education and we will know what Justice Verma committee said. So I have completed this very topic for you. Thank you and don't forget to like and subscribe my channel Explore Education. Thank you very much.