Title:- Teaching Practice Programme Contributing to Competent, Committed, Accountable and Ethical Teachers.
Authors:- Dr. Nita Mitra
Volume & Issue:- Volume 1, Issue 1
Date:- 07/11/2023
Page No:- 63 – 74
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Abstract:- This paper has been developed as a conceptual analysis. It intends to initiate a democratic environment in the teaching practice programme of a Teacher Education Curriculum where the trainee teachers can develop their views without any conflict with the views of the supervisor (Teacher Educator). It has been proposed that this is possible through adopting the approach of counselling and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT). The work has got its motivation from the work of Sosibo (2013) where the trainee teachers were instructed to self-evaluate. In that paper, it was reported that gradually the trainee teachers started understanding the evaluation procedure. In the present paper, it has been proposed that the trainee teachers and the teacher educator collaborate to arrive at a consensus about the best strategy for teaching in a particular situation. It has been finally argued that such an act of introducing the approach of CBT may lead to making the trainee teachers competent, committed, accountable and ethical as well.
Keywords:- Teaching Practice; Counselling; Cognitive Behaviour Therapy; Competent, Committed, Accountable and Ethical Teacher
