The Bachelor of Education programme, generally known as B.Ed. is a professional course that prepares teachers for Upper primary or Middle school level (Classes VIVIII), Secondary level (Classes IX-X) and Senior Secondary level (Classes XI-XII).
Objectives of the programme:
* To encourage the pupil teachers to be a global citizen, serving the human beings at large through the noble profession of teaching.
* To persuade the pupil teachers to act as agents of modernization, social change, promote social cohesion, international understanding, and work for protection of human rights of the child.
* To enable the pupil teachers to understand the central concepts, tools of enquiry and structures of the disciplines of education in general, and teacher education in particular.
* To make the student teachers understand how children learn and develop, how they differ in their approach to learning opportunities that benefit diverse learners and learning contexts.
* To imbibe knowledge, develop an understanding of the various methods and approaches of organizing learning experiences for secondary school students.
* To develop the skills of student teachers to plan learning experiences in and outside the classroom that are based on learners’ existing proficiency, interests, experiences and knowledge and enable them to understand how students come to view, develop, learn and make sense of subject matter contained in the curriculum.
* To enable them to foster creative thinking among pupils for the reconstruction of knowledge.
* To provide student teachers self-identity as a teacher through school based learning experiences and reflective practices that continually evaluate the effects of their choices and actions.
1. Duration and working days:
1.1 Duration:
The B.Ed. programme shall be of duration of two academic years, which can be completed in a maximum of three years from the date of admission into the programme.
1.2 Working days:
(a) There shall be at least two hundred working days each year exclusive of period of examination and admission.
(b) The minimum attendance of student-