An Exploratory Overview of Teacher Educators’ Demographic Based Insight Regarding Standards of Quality of Teacher Education in Public Sector Universities of Pakistan

Abstract

The quality of teacher education is highly contingent on professional standards and teachers’ firm belief in these standards. By following the standards, teacher education can be revolutionized. Keeping in view this utmost need of standards, the present study was envisioned to review teacher educator’s insight regarding standards of quality of teacher education. For this purpose, an exploratory survey was conducted with the help of an open ended questionnaire based on ten national professional standards. Two demographics gender and teachers’ designation were focused. Questionnaire was administered over 55 teacher educators out of which 49 questionnaire were returned. These teacher educators were purposively selected as they were teaching to preservice teachers in teacher education departments of various public sector universities of Punjab, KP and Federal. There were total 15 questions in this questionnaire. Results of the study concluded that majority of teachers were well aware of these standards. In all standards data showed a marginal gender based difference. However,in terms of training teachers revealed that there is lack of training regarding implementation of these standards. Teachers were found weak in standard of professional code of conduct and assessment techniques. Half of the majority of teachers were hopeful that standards can improve quality of teacher education. The study recommends training program for teachers for teachers’ continuous professional development and to empower them for using ICTs and for opting diverse assessment techniques.