Self-Evaluation: A Way to Enhance the Quality of Teacher Education

Abstract

Teaching is a demanding and complex profession. It requires sweat and blood to be a good teacher. Teaching is not rocket science but, it demands dedication, caliber, competency, expertness, sincerity, professionalism as well as skills to handle budding generations. Effective learning means thorough and lasting acquisition of the knowledge, skills, and values that can be attained through good teaching. There are number of factors that entering into teaching- learning process which includes instructional variables, subject-matter and various teaching methodologies, techniques and technology. Thus there is a dire need of evaluation system to promote the quality of teaching. The teachers also need self evaluation, like other professionals, so that they can accurately identify their strengths as well as areas of lacunae in which they need to improve.