Name: Jasleen Kaur
Country: India

Year: 2025
Volume: Volume-15, Issue-2, (July-December)
Page Number: 484-491
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20393977

The quality of a nation depends upon the quality of its citizens. The quality of its citizens depends not exclusively, but in critical measure upon the quality of their education, the quality of their education depends more than upon any single factor, upon the quality of their teacher. (NPE-1986)
Teacher education has undergone tremendous change globally and India is also not lacking behind in transforming Teacher Education. Nation building is not just a fancy term, it is a serious business handed over to the teachers- the back bone of the society. Nearly after a decade of field try out and another decade of discussions the teacher education programme was restructured as per recommendations of relevant commissions, policy planners and norms given by NCTE. A two year B.Ed programme with substantial changes in theory and practicum was proposed by NCTE in 2014 and implemented in 2015. A major chapter introduced in the two year programme was a herculean jump from a 40 days teaching pract