Impact of NCTE on Secondary Teacher Education in Rajasthan

Teachers are undoubtedly the most important component of our educational system but the way they are being trained and educated today leaves much more to be desired and achieved. With the aim of improving the condition of teacher education in the country as a whole, the Govt. of India took many steps from time to time to bring teacher education under the control of a strong organization. Ultimately, this objective was realized with the creation of National Council of Teacher Education Act. For raising the quality of pre-service teacher education programme, the council has formulated norms and standards for teacher education course and developed the curriculum framework for quality Teacher Education. During the last few years, there was a big increase in the number of schools and eventually, there was a great demand for a very large number of teachers. Keeping in view, the NCTE was recognized many teacher education colleges in Rajasthan. So, the study was an attempt to find out organizational and professional climate of teacher education colleges and impact of NCTE on secondary teacher institutions in Rajasthan State.