ABSTRACT

Education is the key for development of any nation and it depends on the quality of teachers. Knowledge dedication, quality, professional commitment and motivation of teachers are the factors responsible for quality education and learner achievement. Teacher education progrmme has to be critiqued, studied, reformed, rethought and reoriented today. Improvement in teacher education is a 3 dimensional task-quality, research and innovations. Quality and excellence in the education sector is one of the major initiatives of the Government of India in its plans. To achieve the outcome of enhanced quality at all levels of education, Govt. of India has been focusing its attention on quality and excellence in higher education and teacher education. In India, during the quest of this reforming and restructuring and in the light of various policy papers and documents like- Kothari commission report (1964-66), Acharya Rammurti Samiti Report (1990), NCF (2005), The Teacher education curriculum and regulations have witnessed a paradigm shift in recent years.  In an era of increasing standards and accountability in education, teacher quality and teacher training will be more important than ever. However some of the problems have also been there like updated curriculum, duration and quality of internship, in-service teacher education, lack of practical aspects and teacher education through distance mode are debatable issues. This paper deals with some policies, problems and proposed suggestions for teacher education.