Difference Between Pre-service and In-service Teacher Education

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Difference Between Pre-service and In-service Teacher Education

1)In-service education can simply be defined as the relevant courses and activities in which a serving teacher may participate to upgrade his professional knowledge, skills, and competence in the teaching profession.

2)The concept of an orientation programme emphasises teachers as agents of socio-economic change and national development and underlines the need to make them skill-oriented teachers.

3)The curriculum of orientation courses includes awareness of linkages between society, environment, development and education, philosophy of education, Indian education system and pedagogy, resource awareness and knowledge generation and management & personality development.

4)Pre-Orientation programs are an opportunity to arrive on campus a few days early, meet other new students with similar interests and participate in engaging service and/or community-building programs before orientation officially begins.

5)Refresher courses & orientation programmes are key programmes to help the continuous professional development of in-service teacher education and maintain the quality of the teaching profession. This study also helps to understand the role of RC & OP in the continuous professional development of the in-service teacher.