Bachelor of Education (B.Ed)

Meant for preparing teachers for secondary schools, this two year training course is open to intermediates, with an emphasis on the principles and methodology of teaching, leading to the Bachelor of Teaching (B.T.), subsequently renamed as Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) degree. In some states there is Licentiate in Teaching (L.T.), which is considered equivalent to the B.Ed. degree. Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) is an undergraduate course offered for those interested in pursuing a career in teaching. The B.Ed. degree is mandatory for teaching at the secondary (classes 6 to 10) and higher secondary (10+2 or classes 11 and 12). The minimum qualification required for entry into B.Ed. course is Undergraduation. While students from the Arts stream are trained to teach subjects like History, Civics, Geography, and languages, the students from the Science stream are trained to teach Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. There are chances that the duration of the course will be four years from next upcoming sessions as per NCTE Regulations, 2019. This means that this maybe the last batch to have B.Ed of two years duration. After B.Ed., students can pursue Master of Education (M.Ed.) in any Indian university or teacher-training institutes offering the course. The National Council for Teacher Education is the statutory body which regulating teacher training courses in the country of India.

The Right to Free and Compulsory Education for Children (RTE Act 2009) came into force from April 2010. The act emphasizes on quality education for every child. As such, with the view to bring about quality education in schools, it is required that the entry level percentage to B.Ed. be 50 for those candidates in the General Category and 45 for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
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The Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) programme of NIMT has been designed with the aim to develop an understanding of teaching-learning process at secondary and senior-secondary level among student teachers. It focuses on enabling student-teachers to reflect critically on perspectives of education and integrate holistically the theory and practices to facilitate active engagement of learners for knowledge creation.

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES
The B.Ed. programme focuses on:

• developing an understanding of context of education in contemporary Indian Society,
• appreciating the role of context and socio-political realities about learners in facilitating learning in inclusive settings,
• creating sensitivity about language diversity in classroom and its role in teaching-learning process
• developing an understanding of paradigm shift in conceptualizing disciplinary knowledge in school curriculum,
• identifying, challenging and overcoming gender inequalities in school, classroom, curricula, textbook, social institutions, etc.,
• enabling student-teachers to acquire necessary competencies for organizing learning experiences,
• developing competencies among student-teachers to select and use appropriate assessment strategies for facilitating learning,
• engaging student-teachers with self, child, community and school to establish close connections between different curricular areas,
• enabling student-teachers to integrate and apply ICT in facilitating teaching-learning process and in school management,
• systematizing experiences and strengthening the professional competencies of student teachers, and
• providing first-hand experience of all the school activities through engaging student-teachers as interns in secondary/senior secondary schools.

ADMISSION
Admission shall be done on the basis of the score obtained in the entrance test conducted by UP BED ENTRANCE EXAMINATION.
The candidate will be required to submit the filled-in application form with self-attested copies of documents as specified in Entrance-cum-Admission Form.
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ENTRANCE TEST
The Entrance Test will be held on the date mentioned in the advertisement. Hall tickets will be uploaded on UP BED ENTRANCE website; for appearing in the Entrance Test. Mere allowing candidates to take Entrance Test would not amount to acceptance of their eligibility for admission to B.Ed. The final admission to the programme shall be subject to their rank in the merit list in the Entrance Test and production of proof of their eligibility at the time of last date of submission of application for admission to B.Ed. programme along with original certificates and programme fee.

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