Principal's Message

‘The Destiny of the country is being shaped in her classrooms’ is not rhetoric. This focuses on the crucial role, the teaching community is expected to play in making education qualitative. It is now well recognized that the most important single factor for the quality of education and thus for the efficiency and quality of the pupils learning is the quality of teachers training. Hence considerable thought and attention have been given to teacher education by all societies throughout the world. Decades ago, developing subject matter competency and pruning teaching skills in a specific subject was the prime objective of teacher training programs. But with the advent of globalisation and the increasing convergence of digital technologies, educational practices have undergone tremendous changes throughout the world to meet the challenges brought about by this new landscape.

The teacher of today is not just one who can teach a specific subject. But one who possesses the skills and competencies needed for the 21st century to transact the content and teaching not just a local student but even to student residing in the remotest corner of the world with widely varying interests and abilities. In short, teacher education has to function as a professional learning under a global canvas. This requires an education system that adopts a holistic approach to developing the whole person and his or her full potential.

Teacher, as a social engineer not only mould the individual but also the society. Teaching is the profession on which all other professions depend. Indeed everybody who was nobody is enabled to become somebody by a teacher. Thus empower teachers with a value embedded and competency-based teacher education curriculum, to equip them to be professionally competent, adaptable and socially committed to tackle the challenges in a knowledge society should be the vision.