Teacher Education in India: Challenges and Suggestions

Abstract

Teacher education encompasses all the components that are designed to give student teachers the fundamental ability for which they can carry out their jobs in the real world. The present study made an effect to study the teacher education in India with special reference to challenges and suggestions to resolve the challenges. The study highlighted about the different kind of teacher education program around the nation along with challenges such as lack of human resources, Inappropriate teaching internship, lack of supervision, attitudinal barrier, incompetent teacher educators, lack of infrastructure, admission procedure, lack of professionalism, funds, qualification issues and some suggestions are pointed out to maintain the standard of Teacher Education in India. This study also includes the major recommendations of NEP (2020) with regard to teacher education.