Abstract
The article presented here is a part of the major research project conducted in India from 2016 through 2020. Teacher education in India in the last six decades underwent many reforms in terms of policies, assessment, field experience patterns, and training pedagogy. Teacher educators invariably implemented all the suggested changes. However, it lacked the rigour in implementation. At the same time with the advancement of technology, the student population is native to technology and had newer attitudes towards learning. Researcher felt that, the Teacher educators competencies are to be revisited and may come up with a new list of competencies which are helpful to the next generation. It is with this intent this major research project was planned. The purpose of the project was to come up with the list of competencies for teacher educators which are helpful for training the next generation teacher trainees and to measure those competencies. Therefore, the study resorted to adopt exploratory research design. This article explains the step wise procedure on construction of next generation teacher educator competency scale. It also explains the procedures of validity and reliability established for the scale. The study brought out a Likert type of scale to measure next generation teacher educator competency and has simple administration procedures. The scale was found to be highly reliable based on Cronbach’s alpha internal consistency coefficient. Though the study is exploratory in nature, yet confirmatory factor analysis was carried out and is found to be in agreement with the evolved factors. The scale may be used to measure the extent to which the next generation teacher educator competencies are possessed by a teacher educator.
Highlights
The educational goals of a society undergo periodic changes in accordance to the changing social reality and aspirations
Investigator put forth the following question to each teacher educator; what professional changes they look forward from the current or generation teacher educators to train the generation teacher trainees? The suggested changes from B.Ed college faculty members were noted down and were thoroughly analysed to bring out the competencies required of a generation teacher educator
Researcher reviewed several national and international research literature to find out the competencies required of a generation teacher educator
Summary
The educational goals of a society undergo periodic changes in accordance to the changing social reality and aspirations. The emerging Generation who are largely influenced by mobile technology and virtual reality, have different ways of learning. These ways are not just different from how their parents or teachers learnt, but are different from their immediate generation behind them. Schools invest in “building” better schools rather than creating a flexible learning environment and providing teachers access to training that can help them cater to changing learner needs. According to the interviews conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project of over 900 Internet stakeholders and critics, learners might not have to remember as much in the future, but they will have better critical and analytical skills. As time spent on memorisation would have reduced, learners would have the time to learn new things
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