ROLE OF TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHERS: A CASE STUDY OF SOUTH-KASHMIR, J&K, INDIA

The quality of a nation depends upon the quality of its citizens. The quality of its citizens depends not exclusively, but in critical measure upon the quality of their education, the quality of their education depends more than any single factor, upon the quality of their teacher. Teaching is one of the most important and noble professions. Teachers engaged in this profession needs to be qualified professionally. Modern system of education requires professionally trained man power to deliver quality education to its students. The teachers have to deal with the human beings who have the feelings, emotions, aspirations and various other experiences. They need to be taken care of with great care. Therefore, the training of teachers before entering into this profession is must. Apart from knowledge of the content the skill and attitude to handle and deliver is a pre-requisite for a good teacher. Through this paper, the attempt has been made to survey the teacher training colleges in South-Kashmir to find out the growth of these institutions and their primary functions.