B.Ed Programme : Objectives

The prospective teacher...

• Understands and explores the meaning, need and significance of education
• Understands the various perspectives on education.
• Identifies and questions one‘s own long-established presumptions on knowledge, learner, teacher, and education, and develop a more informed, meaningful understanding of them.
• Understands education in the socio-cultural context.
• Familiarizes with the socio-political economic dimensions of Indian Society and appreciating its diversity.
• Develops an understanding of the trends, issues, and challenges facing contemporary Indian Society.
• Facilitates student teachers‘ understanding of the psychological basis of teaching and learning.
• Understands the developmental processes and needs of children and adolescents and the role of teachers in facilitating developments.
• Understands the various theories of personality, factors affecting individual differences and the special problems of exceptional children.
• Acquaints with the prominent theories of learning, retention, and transfer of training and the strategies to facilitate each one of these.
• Familiarizes with the psychological principles underlying ‗curriculum transactions, psychological testing, management and guidance and counseling.
• Understands the essentials of assessment for learning, democratic education, school management, and physical & health education.
• Helps them in understanding the relation between language, mind and society.
• Develops a comprehensive and critical understanding on disability, marginalization and inclusive education.
• Addresses the learning needs of all children, including those who are marginalized and disabled
• Understands basic assumptions of ICT its scope in the area of teaching and learning.
• Imbibes knowledge and develops an understanding of methods and strategies of teaching in Middle, High schools and Higher Secondary schools, and evaluating its outcome.
• Acquires adequate knowledge of the content of the school subjects concerned, of middle, secondary and higher secondary classes.
• Develops a positive attitude to the teaching profession and to the coming generation
• Acquires the democratic and social values of an ideal teacher thereby to inspire his/her students.
• Develops interest in facilitating learning and development and enjoys teaching and organizing curricular and co-curricular activities.
• Readiness to accept the progressive changes in the field of education
• Generates sensitivity towards the local and global environment to emphasize living in
• Harmony within oneself and with natural and social environment.
• Recognizes the need for integrating and inculcating life skills and values in the school curriculum and its implementation.
• Develops skills in dealing with the problems of maladjustment, indiscipline and learning disability.
• Becomes capable of rendering counseling and guidance for the needy students.
• Develops skills in planning, transacting and evaluating curricular contents of secondary and higher secondary classes.
• Develops various sub-skills and competencies in teaching and classroom management through microteaching.
• Acquires skills in developing and using audiovisual devices and ICT for classroom teaching.
• Acquires skills in discharging the duties of a competent teacher in the prevailing socio-cultural and political system and to meet the challenges of the transforming society.
• To acquaint with the professionalization of teacher education
• Attains a sound knowledge base and proficiency in language
• Develops an artistic and aesthetic sense in children through art education
• Learns how to make productive work a pedagogic medium for acquiring knowledge in various subjects, developing values and learning multiple skills
• Helps student teachers discover and develop open-mindedness, the attitude of a self- motivated learner, having self-knowledge and self-restraint.
• Helps student teachers develop the capacity for sensitivity, sound communication skills and ways to establish peace and harmony.
• Develops the capacity to facilitate personal growth and social skills in their own students.
• Enables student teachers to generate an understanding of the principles of yogic practices so as to improve the quality of life.
• Develop the ability to perform appropriate yogasanas so as to improve physical and mental conditions and emotional equilibrium.
• Be sensitive to the social, professional and administrative contexts in which they need to operate
• Identifies their own personal expectations, perceptions of self, capacities and inclinations
• Learns about the requirements of professional work and makes a contribution to the schools providing internship opportunities.
• To be a professional and humane teacher