Career Opportunities

Occupation

Teaching

About The Occupation

Teaching is one of the largest professions. Teachers specialize to teach at different levels such as the pre-primary, primary, secondary, senior secondary and university levels. There are specialist teachers who teach subjects such as art, computers, physical education (Tondon, n.d.)"  Teachers can teach at different levels. Primary school teachers teach 3-5 years old. They work with children and teach all subjects. They meet with parents. Secondary school teachers specialise in one or two subjects. They prepare test papers, meet parents , organise co-curricular activities. Lecturers/college teachers hold PhD in subject. They research and prepare for lecture. They conduct seminars or tutorials. They mark assignments and publish research work

Domain

Public, Private

Scope

 1)distance education 2) examiners 3) publishing house  (Tondon, n.d.) 3) work in schools 4) work in colleges and universities 5) tuitions 6) lecturers can undertake research and write journal papers. 

Skills Required

  • Teaching as a profession demands you to be extremely careful of your personality, approach and knowledge
  • The teacher must be approachable enough for students to share any difficulties that they might face in their journey of learning/li>
  • Teachers must be sensitive to the problems/li>
  • Communication Skills- a teacher must necessarily have excellent . communication skills for accurately conveying the knowledge to the students/li>
  • Understanding Nature- this trait is mostly required for school level teachers/li>

Eligibility

Bachelor of Education is a must .Basic Training Certificate (BTC), Diploma in Education (D.Ed) and Teacher Training Certificate (TTC)

Institutions offering the course

  • IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University)
  • Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 
  • Adhyapak Vidyalaya Junior College of Education, Mumbai
  • Adarsh Vidya Mandir P.G. College of Education, Jaipur 
  • Himachal Pradesh University, Himachal Pradesh
  • Jamia Milia Islamia University, Delhi
  • National Council of Teacher Education, New Delhi
  • College of Teacher Education, Agartala
  • Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi
  • University of Delhi, Delhi
  • A G Teachers College, Ahmedabad

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