Write a Short Note on NCFTE-2009

National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education 2009 is a Government of India draft created for proposing changes and updates required to the National council for teacher education. Its main features are:

  • Teachers should be prepared to care for children and love to be with them.
  • Teachers should change their perception of a child as a receiver of knowledge and encourage its capacity to construct knowledge.
  • The programme should help teachers or potential teachers to develop social sensitivity and consciousness and finer human sensibilities.
  • The programme should help teachers or potential teachers to develop social sensitivity and consciousness and finer human sensibilities.
  • Teacher education should engage teachers with the curriculum, syllabi and textbooks to critically examine them rather than taking them as ‘given’ and accepted without question.