Developing Skilled Teachers with Global Perspectives

Teacher education is a global profession that needs to be understood properly. It is essential to grasp a global perspective of the profession as it is today, to make assumptions about it in the near future and to utilize the best thinking and instructional models available in the present times. Professionally, powerful teaching is very important and increasing in our contemporary society as a result of the steam of dynamic initiatives of human development and evolution. Due to these developments and evolution, standards of learning would be higher in the 21st century than it has been in the 20th century and the current concerns of teacher education that has been shifted from teacher to learner centric parading. As per concerns of NCF-2005 & NCFTE-2010 the teachers need to provide collaborative, co-operative, communicative, constructivist, creative, innovative, resourceful and instructional approaches for their integrated and holistic development. The teachers must provide the abilities encourage the students, to be critical, reflective, flexible problem-solvers and decision makers, including the ability to resolve conflict in creative & nonviolent ways. Teacher education needs to prepare teachers to face the changing technological contexts for better forms of student learning. The use of information and communication technology and internet in particular has opened new vistas for making education process effective. A student has to face a lot of increasing competition in every walk of life. So the process of education needs to empower the teachers to emerge victorious in this battle. The teachers need to be related to employability skills (life skills) which include decision making, empathy, fearlessness and sociability etc. Modern techniques emphasized group work among students as a method of attaining learning objectives effectively. The teachers need to be trained to use it with ease and confidence. In the present paper the investigator discussed on the expanded role of teachers in the field of education and the skills that should be developed in teachers with global perspective.