Success of new education policy relies upon on how we recruit and determine instructors

Aanchal Chomal and Anupama Raj write: respecting learner variety and abilities in constructing a participative/democratic lecture room subculture are vital requisites of a teacher.

Recruitment of nicely-qualified teachers into the schooling system is the first prerequisite to make certain that scholars acquire exceptional schooling. But, instructor recruitment approaches in the united states aren’t competently streamlined. There are diverse recruitment methods throughout regions, faculty levels, and school sorts — vital, nation, and personal faculties. This, in turn, results in more than one criteria and processes for hiring teachers, thereby bringing a huge disparity in instructor excellent across establishments and regions. Some of the tactics also are sub-greatest in measuring the competency of a candidate.

One of the maximum commonplace and broadly-taken checks to make sure eligibility for recruitment is the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET), conducted at both the state (STET) and central levels (CTET). TET is the equal of the licensure checks that are undertaken by means of teacher applicants in numerous international locations. However, in India, the take a look at is required only for authorities school teacher recruitment at the standard level (Class 1-8). TET has been critiqued again and again for various reasons. These consist of low skip probabilities, terrible take a look at best, lengthy check papers and a severe lack of alignment with teacher training programmes. The take a look at turned into within the news lately due to the teachers’ recruitment scam in west Bengal.

To mitigate the longstanding gaps, the nep 2020 recommends now not handiest a revision of the present take a look at but also supplementing it with different processes together with lecture room demonstrations and interviews to gauge the passion and motivation of individuals closer to teaching. It further recommends extending these techniques to all levels of education in public and private faculties alike.

These are welcome measures. What we want is a coherent approach to tie together the various checks and processes which includes TET , teacher recruitment tests, school room demonstrations and trainer interviews. This may permit a holistic assessment of instructor competence.