Abstract

Education is a fundamental right of each human being .In the constitution of the republic of India it was presumed that the state would provide, free and compulsory education to all children up to age of 14 years, by an act of constitutional amendment the parliament has made universal elementary education compulsory. Children of different age groups learn differently. Hence role of teachers for taking care of teaching learning at different stages of education. For teaching pre scholers competencies required in a teacher are different from those that are required by an elementary school teacher which are different from those required by a secondary school teacher which are different from those required by a senior secondary school teacher and which are different from those required for teaching at the territory stage. For each stage of education specialized teachers are required for teaching different subject. On teacher education a deep study conducted on problems and issues. Major issues are working of teacher education institutions, erosion of value, structure of teacher programme, developing creativity, developing life skills, social issues and development of science and technology. This paper tries to attempt to critically examine the issues and problems related to teacher education.