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
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP162982
- DOI -
- Views 91
- Downloads 0
CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES OF THE MODIFIED NUMEROV RELATED BLOCK METHODS
In this paper, we derived the modified 3-point Numerov block method from multistep collocation involving off-step interpolation point / .The methods were derived for solution of second order initial valu...
A STUDY OF CAUSES OF FAILURE IN MATHEMATICS AT HIGH SCHOOL STAGE
The present study was carried out to identify causes of failure in mathematics at high school stage. A sample of 125 (50 girls and 75 boys) failure students were selected randomly for the study. The results reveals that...
THE EFFECTS OF FLASHCARDS AND A MATH RACETRACK ON MULTIPLICATION FACTS FOR THREE RURAL ELEMENTARY STUDENTS AT- RISK FOR SCHOOL FAILURE
The purpose of the present research was to examine the effectiveness of DI flashcards and a math racetrack procedure with basic math facts. Three students at-risk for school failure and enrolled in a rural elementary s...
SPORT VOLUNTEERISM AS A TOOL FOR EFFECTIVE SPORTS ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
Sport at any level is a social activity and event that requires human and material resources. The inadequacy of sports personnel for effective sports administration and development can be augmented with the services of...
CUSTOMARY JUSTICE SYSTEM OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAK NUMFOR, PAPUA
The article aims to reveal about the prevailing customary justice system in pursuant to the customary law of Biak Numfor Papua, in investigating, considering, deciding or resolving a case of customary wrongdoings, and to...