Innovative Pedagogical Practices In Teacher Education

Teacher education is a program that is related with teacher proficiency and competency to equip future teacher(pre-service) with the required set of knowledge, attitude and skill to face new challenges and training should be provided to in-service teachers to upgrade their knowledge and to make them competent to face new challenges by using innovative pedagogy. The main purpose of this paper is to explain the new changes that has been incurred in teacher education and gives overview of recent trends and innovative pedagogical practices that used in the teaching learning process that is need of the hour. Some of the innovative pedagogical practices like constructivist approach, flipped classroom, blended learning, personalized system of instruction or self-learning, team teaching, experiential learning, reflective teaching, competency-based approach, improving critical teaching skill, peer tutoring, multicultural education and some of the practices like importance on emotional intelligence, multidisciplinary approach, professional development through digital platform, recruitment of senior or retired teachers and involvement research-based teaching (Recommended by NEP-2020) etc. needs to be reflected in teacher education program that greatly helps in producing quality output in teaching learning process. To face the challenges in 21st century the teacher should have the skill and competency in different innovative methods and approaches to make the teaching learning process active, meaningful and enjoyable. That greatly helps the students to be a problem solver, decision maker and discoverer of knowledge.