| Teacher education is evolving and developing into a | | | | new developments in the profession. She will get |
| profession in itself. It is an important area in which | | | | comprehensive training in material preparation for |
| the trainer is getting trained. And it is important, as | | | | classes, methodologies, evaluation processes and |
| these are the people who will spend maximum time | | | | standards, curriculum development and management |
| with the young generation during their formative | | | | of classrooms. |
| years. | | | | Almost all major universities in the United States of |
| Teacher education could be synonymous with | | | | America offer graduate programs in teacher |
| teacher training and teacher development, but there | | | | education and training. These courses include |
| is also a marked difference between the two. | | | | comprehensive studies and research on not only the |
| Basically, teacher education is a program that trains | | | | major subjects of the student, but also methods of |
| graduates to work in schools as teachers. It is a | | | | imparting information to schoolchildren in the best |
| process or a course that an aspiring teacher has to | | | | possible way. Columbia University, for example, has |
| undergo before she can get into the profession. | | | | one of the largest training colleges for teacher |
| Here, she receives training and educational | | | | education in America. They focus not just on training |
| information that will tell her how to impart the | | | | teachers for schools, but also at evolving a new |
| knowledge she has to the students. The course is an | | | | generation of leaders who understand education in |
| essential prerequisite, and the would-be teacher will | | | | the broadest possible sense of the word. |
| attend lessons and lectures, and learn theories and | | | | |