Teaching Profession -Teaching Profession Chapter 8.pptx
- 1. Tanzela Bashir TEACHING PROFESSION AND GLOBALIZATION
- 2. We will learn today about: ◾ Define globalization ◾ Describe the impact of globalization on teacher education ◾ Explain teacher professionalism ◾ Discuss the issues of teacher education in new millennium ◾ Evaluate the role of ODL in teacher education OUTLINES
- 3. ◾What kind of teacher does the modern society, and, in particular, the modern school need? Does the system of teacher education really meet the needs of the school, the society and the challenges of the modern world?
- 4. TEACHER PROFESSIONALISM AND GLOBALIZATION ◾Globalization is a process of integrating the nation states by removing or minimizing the restrictions on the movement of material resources, financial resources, labor, technology and ideas. ◾Education is an important sector in any economy and globalization has its implications for this sector as well.
- 5. CONTENT OF EDUCATION: ◾The fast-developing stock of knowledge and the need for its continuous updating has also initialed. No longer is education confined to a particular period of life. ◾A key to the twenty first century, learning throughout life will be essential for adapting the evolving requirements of new generation and for better mastery of changing time from the rhythms of individual existence.
- 6. EQUITY AND EXCELLENCE: ◾ An important component of globalization in relation to education is the need for producing quality manpower that can successfully face the competition in the world. ◾ Quality and excellence have become the watchwords of the new millennium everywhere. ◾ No system of education can rise above the level of teachers’. Teacher must be trained and educated properly.
- 7. TEACHER EDUCATION: ◾ The purpose of teacher education is to produce teachers who have professional competencies. ◾ In this age of globalization, we need to make the system of teacher education more innovative and futuristic in order to respond to the changing demands of the society. ◾ Teacher educators thus have to be motivated enough to plan for their own personal and professional development. They are expected to take responsibility and take charge for their own learning and development.
- 8. TEACHING PROFESSION AND ODL Now that most countries have made solid progress towards the achievement of universal primary schooling by 2015, the world faces two other major educational challenges. Teacher education and open and distance learning (ODL) are separately complex and critically important fields of endeavors. Used together, they have the potential to enhance the effective, efficient and equitable provision of education and to maximize access to such provision by various categories of disadvantaged learners.
- 9. ODL is designed to break the demand for face-to-face attendance at particular institution, which places additional obstacles in the way of streamlined access to such education. Provide cost-effective pre-service and in-service teacher education; Support school-based pre-service and continuing professional development programmers for teachers; Upgrade unqualified teachers and enable qualified teachers to acquire higher teaching qualifications;
- 10. COMBINING TEACHER EDUCATION AND OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING Open and Distance Learning) traced efforts to develop teacher education programmers using varying degrees of ODL in institutions as diverse as the Bangladesh Open University , the Indira Gandhi National Open University ,the Open University of Tanzania, the University of the South Pacific. Establishment of fourteen ODL institutions in formal universities of Pakistan. The Open & Distance Learning System (ODL) is the new global technology based process of education, highly valuable in a globalized knowledge society which envisage technological and social changes
- 20. QUESTIONS