Curricular aims – Developing core competencies across the curriculum
For the kind of teachers we desire for our country, it is critical that we work with them at both levels - as people and as professionals. Keeping this in mind, we have put together core competencies to be developed within them throughout their curricular engagement, irrespective of the domains and courses they choose.
Dispositions
- Self-awareness & commitment to learning
- Reflective Practitioners
- Secular & sensitive
- Attentive & Responsive
- Professionalism
Skills
- Critical & creative thinking
- Ability to conceptualize through a range of learning experiences and apply this knowledge to practical classroom situations
- Ability to create an enabling Learning environment
- Manages and uses resources effectively
- Ability to collaborate and work in groups
- Research skills
- Communication and facilitation skills
Knowledge
- Understanding of education, the learner and society and their inter-relations.
- Understanding of subject displayed through teaching
- Planning for effective transaction of curriculum
- Understands & addresses learners’ diverse learning needs using appropriate teaching and learning strategies
- Uses effective strategies for assessment of learning & assessment for learning and improvising their practice