Model Primary Teacher's Training Institute, Murshidabad: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

Model Primary Teacher’s Training Institute is a prima institute which came into existence in 2002 and it is situated in Murshidabad, West Bengal. This co-educational institution approved by NCTE National Council for Teacher Education, offers teacher training programmes. The institute is located on a 1 acre of land and thus provides a school like atmosphere to the students who wish to become teachers. Moreover, the institute has an overall student-intake of ninety-six students and faculty of York-eight, which guarantees an appropriate student-faculty ratio to provide proper attention and result-oriented education.

The institute has had the honor of combining modern teaching and learning aids with state-of-the-art infrastructure and equipment to help students. A good library should be filled with books in relevance to its content as per syllabus of West Bengal Board of Primary Education The collection should include literature, social science and general knowledge section. The over scaled playground beside the academic block allow for adequate space for physical exercising as well as indoor exercising in the structure created. Physics, chemistry and biology laboratories at the institute have also been well equipped and designed to allow thirty students to conduct their practical's at a given time. To cater to the emergent requirements of education technology for IT, an aesthetically designed Education Tech Lab has been set up which fulfills the guidelines of West Bengal Board of Primary Education and NCTE.

Model Primary Teacher's Training Institute currently offers one primary course: the Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed). This fulltime programme takes two years and has a regulatory capacity to admit fifty students. D.El.Ed is the course under which students develop themselves to become primary grade teachers, by providing them all the techniques and information that are essential for teaching children of these classes. Despite the fact that the institute is only concerned with this specialised programme, it expresses the commitment to offer a broad training program for teachers in this region.

The admission criteria to the D.El.Ed programme offered in the Model Primary Teacher’s Training Institute follows a merit system. Admission to pre clinical courses is on merit, that is, the grades obtained in the qualifying examination and or the entrance test. The specific criteria for procedure may differ depending upon capacity of the selection procedure defined by the state government or UT administration. The approach guarantees that the institute selects candidates that would be able to work well in the area of primary education. The institute for student’s accommodation for those who are outside the institute’s locality has a hostels for both male and female students thus has accommodation for students who would like to be teachers from various states across the region.

It is especially important because Model Primary Teacher’s Training Institute is located in Murshidabad – the city with very deep historical and cultural background. I would like to conclude that with its facility of training teachers and having all sort of facilities along with proper structured admission process, it is worthwhile place to pursue a career in primary teaching in West Bengal. As the institute goes on developing future educators, it makes a huge contribution to the enhancement of the quality of primary education in the region.