FUNCTIONS OF TEACHER EDUCATION LEVELS

FUNCTIONS OF TEACHER EDUCATION LEVELS

FUNCTIONS OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION

· To promote capabilities for inculcating national values and goals as enshrined in the constitution of India.
· To enable teachers to act as agencies of modernization and social change.
· To develop critical awareness about the social realities.

FUNCTIONS OF IN-SERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION

· Updates teacher’s in-services issues concerning content, methodology, and evaluation.
· Upgrades serving teachers in tasks with which they are currently occupied.
· Initiates and orients teachers to new roles and technologies.
· Provides opportunities for unqualified or under- qualified on the job teachers to update their knowledge.

FUNCTIONS OF EXTENSION-SERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION

· Upgrade the professional competence of serving teachers.
· Prepare teachers for new roles.
· Provide knowledge and skills relating to emerging curricular changes, content, process and evaluation.
· Overcome gaps and deficiencies of pre-service education.