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Should aspiring teachers too go through entrance test?

Created by : Sarika Singh, Assistant Professor, BIT  | 02 12 2011 08:16:45 +0000
Industry : Human Resources (HR) ConsultingFunctional Area : Talent Management(People Management)
Keywords : teachers common entrance test entrance test
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Having a BEd degree will no longer be enough to become a school teacher. Concerned over the dipping standards of teaching, aspiring teachers will now have to pass an eligibility test, and score at least 60% in the examination. The Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) is a mandatory requirement for securing a teaching job in schools -- private, government, aided or unaided. TET will be conducted once a year separately by the state governments as well as the Centre.
Is it really necessary for teachers to go through such tests?

  
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Don't we have entrance tests in other fields? Then why should teaching be an exeption? There are many teachers who really don't have much of the knowledge and teaching abilities and still they are there ruining the future of the country's future. Is it acceptable? No!! This filtaration will prove good for the future of our nation.
By Sarika Singh, Assistant Professor, BIT  02 12 2011 08:16:45 +0000
 
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yes ...today entrance tests are in every field then why should not be in teaching also
By Jasmin Pawar, HR Manager, HR GLOBE CONSULTING  | 02 15 2011 18:49:01 +0000
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yes teacher has to go through entrance test
By omveerchouhan , Accessory Designer, clay craft india ltd  | 02 15 2011 13:42:47 +0000
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Nowadays we should develop not only the industial Engineering and also Environmental Engineering.
By Ramesh Balraj, Technical Support Engineer , Trident pneumatics Pvt Ltd  | 02 14 2011 08:40:10 +0000
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It must be made compulsory. They must be verified that they are competent to teach the subject where in they claim expertise.
By RAMESH KANDADAI, Principal Consultant, ARM Consultants  | 02 14 2011 06:47:11 +0000
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its great idea! to be implemented everywhere india..although its already in the system in most the the countries.
By Rohit Thakur, Electrical Engineer-Industrial, Quality Engineering and Software Technologies  | 02 13 2011 15:56:30 +0000
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yes teacher has to go through entrance test and yes its real fact that many of teachers dont know how to teache and dont have enough knowledge to put forward in front of students. In worst they are taking answers from students .. its really bad... so yes they must have entrance test as total future/new generation depends upon them
By Manish Badarkhe, sr. software engineer, L&T infotech ltd  | 02 13 2011 13:29:50 +0000
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Yes. There are metrics available for every profession - sometimes people do objective analysis and sometimes they do subjective analysis, purely dependent on situation. Teaching, of late, has become a pastime for many, especially educated eligible family women who have grown-up children,take up this profession to become economically independent! Please don't mistake me for mentioning this - many of them lack the balancing act - handling the in-laws, children and the pressure from the school authorities and the board! Where do you think they would vent their feeling? Most importantly, you would expect this to be an outburst in front of a less vulnerable persons, i.e. students! Teachers in Dr. S. Radhakrishnan's period were different from the present one. How would you expect every teacher to be compassionate, result-oriented when they are fraught with multifaceted issues encircling them like cocoons! You can not expect every Behavioural Scientists to take up teaching profession and all the teachers are not the behavioural scientists. Coping with the children / student's pressure itself is an art in an era where the Board expects them to deliver both summative and formative results (under CCE - Comprehensive Continuous Evaluation based on various parameters - if they fail to handle them in an objective and scientific way, their assessment about a child / student would go awry. The Board claims that the Orientation to Teachers are on - but there is no third party mechanism available to monitor and measure what they go through, how much have they imbibed, and are they performing as per the methodology suggested by the Behavioural Scientists in putting up these CCE pattern, etc. These are the wild questions, no answers received yet. School would not volunteer to expose their teachers, for they cannot handle attrition. Unless parents ask these questions, our students would be assessed purely on a subjective basis and not on an objective basis, and many hard working children would have to go through stress at a later date!
By S. Muralidharan, Executive Director, Knowledge Foundation & Campus Around the Corner  | 02 13 2011 12:29:26 +0000
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Comment by my 8 year old neighbor's kid- Cute, but I gave it a thumbs-up!

"Teachers prepare test papers. Teachers correct our test papers. Teachers pass us or fail us. But to be able to fail us someday, they should have passed the test long before!" :D

Adorably cute, but true! Eligibility criteria for selecting teachers- they who shape the raw materials of the future nation- should be very strict! Getting 100% literacy rate in the country is a good move. But is the education we get adequate enough? This question totally depends on the ability of the Teachers!

Thanks for the referral @Sarika!
By Anantha Shayana. D, CTO/CIO, RAYSITI  | 02 12 2011 15:44:40 +0000
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Teaching is a method of reaching out to students, and communicating with them. Teaching today involves not so much the distribution of knowledge, but the ability for the teacher to show the path and let the students "learn" for themselves.
By V. Srinivas, Freelancer, Information Technology  | 02 12 2011 12:05:39 +0000
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Teaching is a method of reaching out to students, and communicating with them. Teaching today involves not so much the distribution of knowledge, but the ability for the teacher to show the path and let the students "learn" for themselves. This is an art that supersedes knowledge on the subject. A highly learned chap may not always be a good teacher. If there is to be a "test" to filter out teachers, it should ONLY be on this criterion, and NOT what is the knowledge base of the teacher
By V. Srinivas, Freelancer, Information Technology  | 02 12 2011 11:55:15 +0000
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Entrance exams why? What is the meaning of B.Ed.?A teacher must be judged by the teaching skils in the classroom rather than the entrance exams.
By vijaya , Freelancer, Freelancer  | 04 22 2011 15:37:51 +0000
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Entrance test means another game of marks. When we say a candidate is qualified to teach, we nullified the necessity of another entrance test.
By kumar chiman sinha, Research Scholar  | 02 14 2011 09:28:16 +0000
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just go with the qualified teachers.
By Dhairya kumar(ДХАИРЯ КУМАР ), Service/Maintenance Engineer, Electrical  | 02 12 2011 17:01:40 +0000
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I dont think so that to teach children inspite of having B Ed degree and required qualification you need to clear any entrance test. I think in the B Ed course each and every aspect of teaching is discussed and learnt and any further test is not required to test the skills of aspiring Teachers.
By anuradha , Education Coordinator, A to Z Technologies  | 02 12 2011 15:04:47 +0000
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