Prospective Teachers’ Perceptions on Performance of Teacher Educators
Journal Title: Academic Research International - Year 2014, Vol 5, Issue 4
Abstract
Teacher is the core to achieve quality education. Quality in education identifies with the nature of the work embraced by a teacher, which has noteworthy impacts upon his or her students or scholars. At teacher training institutions, teacher educators facilitate the training and development of pre-service teachers. The assurance and enhancement of the quality of teacher educators is also very important. Quality certification requires professional standards of educator training and a successful system of accreditation of teacher education institutions and programmes. At present there are numbers of activities seem to be taken from different forms for getting qualitative change in teacher training in Pakistan. There are several accreditation bodies present in Pakistan in different fields as like this there is also accreditation body in field of teacher education. Its standards are fast becoming the national norm. The study is based on selected standards for teacher educators derived from National standards for Accreditation of Teacher education programmes. The study was descriptive in nature. The population comprised of teacher educators and students of six public and private universities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. The sample size of study was 300 students of M.A. Education, M.Ed and B.Ed. Proportionate random sampling technique was used to select sample and equal representation of 50 students from each university. This study found that there were lacks of proper training of teacher educators towards their profession and have no idea of those standards which were presented by national accreditation council of teacher education in Pakistan. After conducting this study it was come to know that there are some issues still present in accreditation process of teacher education institutions and programmes. Overall the study found that most of the teacher educators performing well in their field however proper accreditation of teacher educators is still needed.
Authors and Affiliations
Saadia Khan, M. Imran Yousuf, M. Arshad Dahar, Qaisara Parveen
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