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MA in Education - The Degree for Teaching Profession specialization in elementary education.
As the education sector is attracting adequate attention in the age of structural adjustment and economic reform, M.Ed is increasingly becoming a preferred career course for many Indians. This has also helped in the growth of the M.Ed career colleges in India. The M.Ed courses in India are generally pursued after the successful completion of the Bachelor of Education courses. It is a Post-Graduate degree course offered at most of the DIET centers across India.
In India, M.Ed is mainly offered by institutions that are recognized by National Council of Teacher Education, New Delhi. It is a government body in charge of improving and implementing teacher education programmes in the country. It is essential to pursue the M.Ed courses, if you are interested in pursuing a teaching career. M.Ed is considered an important course, as it helps the students to learn the education systems and patterns more profoundly and comparatively. In every state in India there are several institutions that offer Master of Education courses. The eligibility criterion for admission to this course is that candidates must pass their Bachelor of Education B.ED from a reputed institution in India.

Students who have passed 10+2 (any stream) from a recognized board are eligible to pursue NTT course. I recommend this teacher training course to readers who are interested in teaching at nurseries, Montessori and day care centers. In short, this course suits those who want to teach pre-primary level students.
Nursery teachers deal with kids who have just stepped into the world of formal education. They play a key role in molding the character, morals and habits of children. To thrive in this profession, one must have patience. Interacting with kids is not easy! It is necessary to have good communication skills to succeed in this profession!
Many may think that life is easy for nursery and pre-primary teachers. But the above paragraph shows how this profession is not devoid of challenges and difficulties. Herse a list of qualities and skills required to thrive in this profession:
Patience.
Energy and enthusiasm.
Passion and liking towards teaching.
Good communication skills.
Eye for detail.
Friendly attitude.

A tenured position in academia is vastly superior to a high school teaching job, although the pay might be worse. The hours, the schedule, the intellectual challenge, the students, etc. will all be better. However, you cannot choose to be a professor. You can go to graduate school, get a Ph.D, work constantly for 5-10 years in the process, publish a great deal, teach a lot (at the adjunct level, starting with your Master's degree), and still never get the tenure-track job. Only 29 percent of university and college teachers are on tenured or tenure track now, down from 40 percent ten years earlier. Jobs will typically have 200 applicants. Winners are usually those from the school with the best pedigree (grads of top 12 Gourmet Report schools generate 75% of profs at top fifty graduate schools in Phil), or the candidate with the best-known advisor, and then gender vastly skews the equation. But, don't forget that the interview trumps everything and, so the high school popularity contest will decide the winners among those chosen for interviews.

Hello,
Basic Training Certificate or BTC course is a two year course after class 12th that is designed to impart skills required for teaching to the prospective teachers. Pass outs of this course are expected to get jobs in Primary Level. At the higher levels, B.Ed after graduation is a must.
The question that arises is whether to do this 2-year full time course in a college or to do it via distance education. Both these options have pros & cons. Full time course is of course is normally considered as better than distance. But, then one has to spend two full years and money on this. Normally speaking, those who want to start earning early, due to financial constraints take up job of teacher in primary section. Two years without earning will be pretty tough. Hence, it would be much better to start job and seek admission for this course via distance education. Of course, it will involve some hardships, but financial constraints will be taken care of.

Hi,
Since BTC is a two year regular course, you may look for distance courses in any of the subjects you wish to specialize in like B.A/M.A mathematics, psychology, education etc. You may also pursue online courses related to education, education management, education technology etc from portals like coursera.org, EdX. Another option is ignou that offers certificate courses related to psychology, child development, counselling, blended learning, curriculum designing, policy making, subject specific certificate courses are also available. Check few online courses at EdX here:
https://www.edx.org/course/subject/education-teacher-training
Hope this gives you the fair idea of what all you can do with BTC. The only caution you need to take is balancing the two courses simultaneously as it might require lot of rigour.

Hello,
To answer your question, both the courses aims to prepare teachers for the elementary stage of education, I.e. classes I to VIII. The aim of elementary education is to fulfill the basic learning needs of all children in an inclusive school environment bridging social and gender gaps with the active participation of the community.
Technically, there is no difference except the course name.
Both courses are designed for Elementary Teacher Training I.e. Upper Primary (Class VI to VIII).
Students may join D.Ed or D.El.Ed course after class 12th (Senior Secondary).
Important Points to remember: Both course should be 2 year Duration, the college/institute should approved by NCTE.
If you qualified D.Ed or D.El.Ed after 10th+2 you can apply in TET Exam (Paper I) I.e. for Primary Stage teachers.
If you have 10+2+3 and D.Ed or D.El.Ed degree, you can apply TET Exam (Paper I and Paper II both).
I hope this helps.

Teacher is a personality which is highly respective after father and mother in India but due to our weak management many candidate does not want to join this field by their wish they choose this filed when they see that all the other field is closed for them.
Our teacher get less paid salary job is the first reason that they didn't want to came in this field just think One Ph.d candidate are getting 50k per month salary then how this person get motivation who has study more than 35 year and still he or she is getting the job of 50k.
Second is freedom Teacher are tied from different rule by government or by institution in which they are teaching so this make demotivated that they are not free to teach in their own way.
So In India due to less salary, no freedom, more work time even they work on holiday and these teacher are not allowed to teach in outside the campus as tuition bring their motivation down. Less salary and more rule make Teaching not as profession but as a choice.
When our education management system of India change then candidate take teaching as a default career option.