OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE

• Understand the way learning occurs and to create plausible situations conducive to learning;
• View knowledge as personal experience constructed in the shared contexts of teaching-learning, rather than embedded in the external reality of textbooks;
• Be sensitive to the social, professional and administrative contexts in which they need to operate;
• Develop appropriate competencies to be able to not only seek the above mentioned understanding in actual situations, but also to create them
• Attain a sound knowledge base and proficiency in language;
• Identify their own personal expectations, perceptions of self, capacities and inclinations;
• Consciously attempt to formulate one’s own professional orientation as teach in situation-specific contexts;
• View appraisal as a continuous educative process;
• Develop an artistic and aesthetic sense in children through art education;
• Address the learning needs of all children, including those who are marginalized and disabled;
• Pursue an integrated model of teacher-education for strengthening the professionalization of teachers;
• Develop the needed counseling skills and competencies to be a ‘facilitator’ for and ‘helper’ of children needing specific kinds of help in finding solutions for day-to-day problems related to educational, personal and social situations; and
• Learn how to make productive work a pedagogic medium for acquiring knowledge in various subjects, developing values and learning multiple skills.