Teachers to clear eligibility test

CHANDIGARH: To ensure that the quality of teachers is not diluted during the recruitment process, the CBSE will now be conducting a teacher eligibility test (TET) for candidates applying for teaching posts for classes 1 to 8 in government schools. The government schools need to recruit several teachers under the provisions of the Right to Free and Compulsory Education 2009.
During a meeting that Director of Public Instructions had with the Ministry of Human Resource Development on March 4, the UT was issued instructions to follow guidelines issued by the National Council for Teacher Education for this test.
''We will now be holding a TET for the recruitment of teachers to government schools. The test is going to be introduced by us from this academic year.
Candidates will basically be asked to take this test so that there is no disparity in the quality of teachers.
The teachers also have to be eligible for the test as per a list of qualifications that has been released by the National Council for Teacher Education,'' said Sandeep Hans, director public instructions, education department.
The test will consist of two papers covering subjects like Child development and Pedagogy, Language 1, Language 2, Mathematics and Environmental Studies. Each paper will be in objective questions format and will be of 30 marks each. The paper that will have to be given will depend on the class and post that a candidate is applying for.
Candidates applying for a post for classes 1 to 5 will have to give Paper 1 while those applying for classes 6 to 8 will have to give Paper 2. If a teacher is applying for both classes both papers will have to be given. The teachers will be required to have a graduation degree and a B.Ed degree to be eligible for the test.
''This test was a necessary introduction to monitor the kind of teachers that will taking up positions in the school. I think this is a fantastic step being taken by the CBSE,'' said principal of a government school.