Teacher Education Curriculum in context of Information &Communication Technology

Abstract

Today’s teachers need to update their knowledge and skills as the school curriculum and technologies are changing rapidly. Shift from Blackboard to Smart classrooms had changed the facet of the modern classrooms. Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) can substantially support the education system if a teacher is enough competent to use the tools. For this the curriculum of teacher education system should also contribute for preparing prospective teachers. This research has been done to identify the gaps in the curriculum of teacher education system in context of ICT in perspective of the National Policies and Documents. The researcher has content analyzed the curriculum of 5 major universities in Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR) and tried to give the suggestions for inserting component of ICT while preparing new curriculum for B.Ed. course.