Status of Teachers Education and Training at Secondary Level of General Education in Bangladesh

Nazneen Akhter^1, and Shafiqul Alam²

¹Deputy Director (P&D), and Instructional Designer, e-learning Center, Bangladesh Open University

²Planning and Development Division, Bangladesh Open University

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Nazneen Akhter and Shafiqul Alam. Status of Teachers Education and Training at Secondary Level of General Education in Bangladesh. American Journal of Educational Research. 2016; 4(12):907-913. doi: 10.12691/EDUCATION-4-12-9

Abstract

This is a status paper about secondary level teacher’s education of general steam in Bangladesh. In this study, secondary data used in the paper collected from Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics (BANBEIS), Education Ministry, different training institutes and Bangladesh Open University (BOU). This study describes about different institutes of providing teacher education and training in the country. Different graphs and simple statistical analysis are done in this status paper. Regression on time series data shows the increasing trend of trained teacher in Secondary Schools. Further in the last decade the enrolment of B Ed and M Ed students in BOU has observed increasing over the time. Educational structure in simple format and statistics of secondary level trained teachers in Bangladesh are also mentioned to give a scenario of teacher`s educational status. Different ways of providing training to the teachers in open and distance mode in Bangladesh is also discussed.

Keywords

secondary education, teacher’s training, teacher education, open and distance mode, pedagogical theories, BANBEIS, BOU

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