Teacher education and quality education

Abstract

As a developing country India have a largest system of education. A number of Universities, departments, colleges as well as private institutions and many informal and non-formal institutions like open Universities specially department of education engaged in teacher education. Teacher Education not only engages improvement of the school education by producing qualified teacher for fulfill the demand of society and prepare student for Higher education. It also having committed and competent teacher educators. Quality assurance in teacher education is most important for produced qualified teachers which depend on the outcome of the teacher education institutions. National council for Teacher Education, a statutory body of govt. of India is responsible for maintain the standard and norms for improvement of the quality of teacher education all over the India. Present paper emphasizes the role of NCTE, Accreditation agencies, Indicators and suggestion for enhancing quality.