Teacher Education in India: Issues and Concerns

This article attempts to assess the present scenario of teacher education and issues related to teacher education. India has one of the world?s largest teacher education systems. There are a huge number of university departments, government finance institute and self - finance colleges running several teacher educations programmes. In order to improve the quality of school education, teacher education plays a very important role. It is observed that there is an unexpected growth of teacher education institute, due to privatization of teacher education programme in India. At present, there are some other problems also observed like quality, method of teaching, curriculum framing and transactions etc.