National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education 2009 is a Government of India draft created for proposing changes and updates required to the National Council for Teacher Education

National Council for Teacher Education

National Council for Teacher Education is an Indian government body set up under the National Council for Teacher Education Act, 1993 in 1995 is to formally overlook standards, procedures and processes in the Indian education system....

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India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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National Council for Teacher Education Act, 1993

National Council for Teacher Education Act, 1993 was based on the National Council for Teacher Education Bill, which was introduced in the Parliament of the Government of India on 24 November 1992 and subsequently passed.-Objective:...

 (#73, 1993) in 1995.

History of the framework

The framework is an endeavour of the National Council for Teacher Education to encourage interested parties and stakeholders to give their views on the qualitative and quantitative improvements that could be achieved in educating teachers at school, graduate, post-graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral levels. A previous "curriculum framework" had been developed in 1978 by the council itself (which at that time was just a department rather than an independent body), followed by the NCERT framework for teacher education in 1988, which subsequently led to the "first curriculum framework for quality teacher education" by NCTE in 1998. This was succeeded in 2005 by a "teacher education curriculum framework" by
NCERT and in 2006 another "joint curriculum framework" by NCTE and NCERT.

Objectives of the framework

The following are the proposed areas to be targeted, according to the draft framework:

• Context, Concerns and Vision of Teacher Education
• Curricular Areas of Initial Teacher Education
• Sample Redesigned Schemas of Current Teacher Education Programmes
• Evaluating The Developing Teacher
• In-Service Education and Continuous Professional Development
• Preparing Teacher Educators