ENHANCING EFFECTIVENESS IN TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMMES THROUGH PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND INTEGRATION OF LIFE SKILLS

If education has to prepare students for life and facilitate a successful and efficient
transition from student’s life to a professional well developed civilized one, then the
educational goals need to be fixed for equipping them to live in world where, the key to
success is the ability to be flexible, ability to change. They should possess tools and skills
with the capability to apply them to tasks, to be decision makers and makers of their own
destiny. Therefore, education must see that it prepares not a few persons with a great
knowledge but many persons with competent knowledge, capable of employing their
faculties to the best possible use. If these are the expectations from Education then teacher
education programmes or teacher preparation programmes will be called upon to shoulder
even more serious responsibilities. There is thus the immediate need to address the TEP
in light of the performance management viewpoint and indeed it begins its curriculum
life skills - essential to all teachers who are ultimately responsible for their students
development - be it physical mental, emotional or social.