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Teacher Education has always been an important component of education since time immemorial. This is because all societies in the world have always needed teachers to propagate/transmit their cultures from one generation to another. Teachers need to be seen as creators of knowledge and thinking professionals. A teacher needs to be an information provider, role model, facilitator, assessor, planner, resource and developer. Educated teachers, with wide knowledge, command the respect of fellow teachers and the people in their communities. They need to be empowered to recognise and value what children learn from their home, social and cultural environment and to create opportunities for children to discover, learn and develop. Teacher is a facilitator, is a friend, and is a philosopher. The purpose of teacher education programme should be to develop in each student his general education and personal culture, his ability to teach and educate others, an awareness of the principles which underlines good human relations and a sense of the responsibility to contribute both by teaching and leading as an example to social, cultural and economic progress. The nation building task will be performed under the leadership of a brilliant set of teacher educators and master educators who will prepare the teachers and who in turn will develop the creative abilities of the teeming millions of the country. This paper discusses the diverse role of teacher’s in the global age.

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  • Teacher Education has always been an important component of education since time immemorial

  • If values have to be nurtured in children it would be crucial that their teachers function as role models

  • Mentors serve as role models; accumulate new teachers to a new school; and advise new teachers about instruction, curriculum, procedure, practices, and politics

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Teacher Education has always been an important component of education since time immemorial. Teacher needs to recognise him or herself as a ‘professional’ endowed with the necessary knowledge, attitude, competence, commitment, enthusiasm, spirit of seeking new ways and means, capable of reflection, sensitive and perceptive to the learners and the institution and the emergent concerns in the larger social perspective within which one functions. Teacher has to recognise that learners in schools no more need teacher as a source of knowledge.

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