Krishna Institute of Higher Education

The Teacher Education Program that leads to the Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed.) aims to prepare teachers for the elementary stage of education, that is, from classes I-VIII. This phase covers children of 6-14 years for whom education is a fundamental right. The purpose of D.El.Ed. Program is to prepare teachers who are able to gradually evaluate and improve their skills, professional practice as teachers by critically reflecting on it, who can understand that teaching is embedded in the social context of the learners and who can engage with context and subject matter that they will be teaching. The student-teachers will also be familiarized with the modes of inquiry and epistemological frameworks of their subjects, familiarized with how students learn so that they can expand and use teaching methods that are responsive to the learning desires of all their learners in distinct and plural settings of elementary classrooms.