Vission and Mission

Every institute should have certain immediate and certain future aims, to be termed respectively its basic mission and vision, before it to let itself set in proper motion along the right track. The Department of B. Ed, AcharyaJagadish Chandra Bose College, has also before it certain chosen mission and vision. They can be stated as follows: Mission: i. Carrying the baton forward: From its very inception in the year 1968 the Department is catering to the societal need of providing it with the quality teachers, pedagogically skilled and sound enough to deal with the rapid changes that have been taking place in the field of education. The Department wants to carry the baton forward, as handed over by the teaching luminaries who got attached with the Department in its blooming phases. ii. Equipping the student-teachers with necessary skills: The basic difference between the students of other disciplines and those of Teacher Education is that while the formers are intended to learn the latter are to get trained, to acquire certain skills regarding how to make the young students learn. The Department attends to this aspect quite earnestly and sincerely and is also in a mission to carry it out with proper pedagogical implications. iii. Turning the student-teachers nationally competitive: As shown since its very inception, the Department wants to let the student-teachers roam freely in the larger national arena of school education by making them pedagogically competitive enoughso that they can crack the Central TETs, along with the State TETs, with ease and face the subsequent challenges in their right earnest. iv. Imparting the student-teachers with a sense of pride: One’s glorious history or tradition makes one proud and that in turn acts as a motivating factor. The Department has also a glorious past in the form of providing the state, nation and international institutes with skilled teachers. The Department’s mission is to hold out this rich history before the would-be student-teachers so that they can inculcate a sense of attachment with the course itself as well as the Department and the College in the larger context. Vision: i. Lessening the mismatch between demand-supply ratio: The present mismatch between the demand and supply of the trained teachers in West Bengal is really a matter of concern. The efforts here are to lessen this mismatch even, if possible, by increasing the number of intake in future, certainly by attending to the infrastructural requirements in this regard. ii. Lessening the mismatch between TEI and Teacher-trainor Ratio:With the mushrooming of TEIs there is a glaring deficiency of skilled teacher-trainors too. The concern of the TEIs has not yet been addressed earnestly by the NCTE or the affiliating universities. The Department intends to address this issue with the introduction of Post Graduate Teacher Education Course in near future. iii. Tapping the Integrated Courses in its right perspective: Four years’ Integrated B.A., B.Ed/B. Sc., B.Ed or three years’ Integrated B.Ed, M.Ed courses are being run by several TEIs in India. The Department, being one of the wings of a general degree college,earnestly intends to tap this potential in near future so that students of diverse aptitudes may move along according to their interest and aptitude and get involved in the domain of education. iv. Turning the Department/College to a premier destination in the field of teacher education: The Department can pride itself in the fact that the students of the highest academic excellence throng here to take admission due to its continuous excellent result and flexible approach to the course with maximum involvement of the student-teachers. The Department wants to turn itself into one of the premier educational destinations of India, if not of the world. v. Contributing to the nation-building: With the insertion of diverse contents in the curriculum of TEIs, responding to the urge for sustaining the multicultural mores of India, the Department intends to make the student-teachers internalize the essence of the curriculum in its true spirit so that they can contribute to the building of a nation that will sincerely cherish and nourish the four basic prerequisites of a healthy nation, as stated in the Preamble of the Indian Constitution—Justice, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity—for ensuring a sustainable inclusive growth of a developing nation like India.