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In-service Teacher Education. In-service Teacher Education refers to all programs and schemes through which teachers who are already employed avail teacher education and training for upgrading their knowledge and skills. Distance Education program.
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In-service Teacher Education • In-service Teacher Education refers to all programs and schemes through which teachers who are already employed avail teacher education and training for upgrading their knowledge and skills.
Distance Education program • The Distance Education program for in-service teacher is a Bachelor of Education degree in pry education. • The course is based on internal B.ed (pry) program. It is a five year program. • It was started in December 1995 and the first batch of candidate passed out in 2003.
Goals and objectives • To provide opportunities to express, reflect and share their experiences as classroom practitioners. • To develop a liking and commitment to learner centered teaching rather than syllabus teaching • To create an awareness that changes in teacher attitude and teacher readiness precede changes in education. • To provide work and context relevant teacher education by relating theory and practice.
Master of Education • It is a part time Education for Heads of the schools • Paro college of Education in collaboration with St. Francis Xavier ( St .fx) university in Canada provides this course • It aims at enhancing the leadership capacity of the existing secondary school heads • The purpose of the program is to equip heads of schools with effective administration and management skills.
Nature of the course • The Ten years course to be offered in this program are adapted from those currently offered at St. Francis Xavier. • The content is mainly on leadership and management, which are very demanding academically. • The need for long term institution based training for Heads of school was discussed and endorsed as a necessity at both the Annual Education Conference and at the Teacher Education Board
Aims of the program • To provide the heads of the schools with an appropriate course to help them fulfill their roles effectively • Help improve the management of schools • Enable the heads of the schools to provide leadership to both teachers and students in their respective schools.
Objectives of the program • Provide a diploma level course to those heads of community and pry schools which had not availed higher level courses. • Organized the course once a year during the winter vacation of three consecutive years.. • Enable the heads of schools to manage changing trends in education system.
Other in-service programs 1, PGCITS. post graduates certificate in Teaching Information science, held in Sherubtse college • PGDE post graduates diploma in English started in 2004 in sherubtse college. • Lead teacher program It focuses on specializing pry teachers in teaching PC math's and English, started in 2006 at SCE
NBIPs • National based in-service program are held for various purposes • The first ever workshop for 150 teachers in the so called Environmental Studies was jointly run by SCE and PCE in 1985
SBIPs • School based in- service programs are also held after following the NBIP • DBIP and CBIP are also conducted in some parts of the country