Issues and challenges of teacher education for the implementation of two year programme with reference to B.Ed. course of Ccs University Meerut (UP)

Education reforms invariably accord highest priority to improve teacher quality and effectiveness. It requires consistent up gradation of teacher education programmes. Over the last two decades in India, the issue of curriculum renewal and extended duration of secondary stage teacher education has received serious attention. The NCTE undertook a major exercise of developing a new National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education in 1998 and 2009 made the recommendation for beginning a two year B.Ed. programme to prepare quality teachers and also recommended updated curriculum for teacher education for various levels of school education from the primary stage to the senior secondary stage. Now the NCTE through Regulation-2014 has made mandatory for all universities and colleges to run two years B.Ed. programme since session 2015–17. Accordingly CCS University Meerut has developed curriculum for its two year B.Ed. programme which has been divided into Two Years and it implemented from the session 2015–17. The introduction of a new curriculum such as B.Ed. two year programme poses a range of challenges to teacher educators and colleges. This paper reports on an attempt by colleges of CCS University Meerut to implement the same. Challenges to the curriculum implementation are identified like overload of papers; overlapping of content, lack of demarcation, unavailability of books etc. and suggestions to address these challenges are also described