If you educate a boy, you educate one individual. If you educate a girl, you educate a family and if you educate a teacher, you educate the whole community. The quality of teacher determines the quality of education which in turn is directly linked to a nation’s development. Therefore care should be taken in providing quality education to future teachers and also in teacher support services.A new programme for teacher education known as the Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP) is an Integrated Scheme for School Education – Samagra Shiksha, from 2018-19 which subsumes the erstwhile centrally sponsored schemes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education (TE),Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan, Padhe Bharat and Badhe Bharat. If teacher education is to improve and reach the levels of integrity and credibility required to restore the prestige of the teaching profession and thereby attain a successful school system, substandard institutions will have to be closed immediately while good institutions with positive intent be strengthened.

Community, Quality of Education, Substandard Institutions, Positive Intent