OPERATIONALIZATION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS BY KEEPING IN MIND THE DOMAINS OF TEACHER COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK: AN INVESTIGATORY APPROACH OF PUNJAB

Abstract

Competency standards focus on using teachers' professional knowledge and abilities in the workplace. Each competence standard describes a teacher's competency in that domain. The three major aspects along with their sub categories   define instructor responsibilities and activities. These variables contribute to instructors' effectiveness with respect to get sustainability in teacher education. They're a random arrangement of instructional behaviours related to a single task, not a sequence that is further linked with SDGs that highlights the operationalization of SDGs in teacher education universities of Punjab. According to this framework, Teachers must excel in all three areas. Dimensions 1 and 2 are crucial to effective teaching and teacher-student interaction. 3 domain defines a successful teaching atmosphere by reflecting, innovating and transforming the current practices of teacher education programs for the sake of education leads to achieve sustainable development goals. The main aim of this paper was to investigate the Operationalization of Sustainable Development Concepts in Teacher Education Programs by keeping in mind the Domains of Teacher   Competency Framework (INTEI).  All public and private universities, offering teacher education in Punjab had been taken as a proposed population and scheme of studies of all teacher education programs were taken for the sake of content analysis through NVIVO 10 used for qualitative data analysis.