Promoting Facilitative Teacher Development through Teacher Education
- Author Patil Sandeep Dagdu
- Co-Author Baviskar Chandrakant Ragho
- DOI
- Country : India
- Subject : Teacher Education
Keywords : Facilitative competence, learning environment, motivation
Abstract
New age education emphasizes upon learner centered approach. Consequently teacher’s role has now changed to be of supporter, motivator and director of students’ self-learning endeavors. Teacher is expected to be a facilitator of students’ knowledge construction process. Such change in teacher’s role requires different set of attributes which need to be fostered through teacher education. Teacher education through its pre-service and in-service modes needs to focus on facilitative development of teachers. There is a necessity to restructure teacher education for facilitative competence development.
Why the teacher is needed as facilitator in new era? What is meant by facilitative teacher? How can the facilitative teaching competence be groomed though teacher education? These points are discussed in the present paper.
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