Need and impact of innovative practices on teacher education

The Teacher is the most important element in any education program. It is the teacher who is mainly responsible for implementation of the educational process at any stage. Teacher education is a program related with teacher proficiency and competence that would make them competent enough to face new challenges in the education. Now a days the field of education is not only limited to books but has broadened in various new horizons. It demands understanding with investigative minds, assimilating required transformations, accommodating and responding to the universal needs. To move according to the needs teachers have to be innovative, should have the ability to think beyond the boundaries and create something which is different from that which already exists. For this there is a need of training to teachers with new perspectives and it starts from their training institutions. The pre-service and in-service teacher education programs have shown paradigm shift with its emphasis on globalization and individualization. The main purpose of this paper is to discuss about the various practices that can be included along with the need of teacher education program to be innovative and various practices that can be included.