Includes bibliographical references and index.

21st century learning opportunities / Rashmi Kumar -- ICT for 21st century education / Subhash Chander -- Collaborating with colleagues / Subhash Chander -- Communicating with parents / Rashmi Kumar -- Literacy, language, and social sciences / Achla Tandon and Geetanjali Kala -- Teaching and learning in STEM / Rashmi Kumar -- Inclusive education / Bharti Kaushik and Shruti Shankar Gaur -- Interdisciplinary teaching / Bharti Kaushik and Shruti Shankar Gaur -- Developing professional identity of teachers / Sheela Rajeshwari and Priyanka Varshney.

"The book provides valuable insight for teachers and teacher-educators to act on the demands of teaching in the 21st century and helps them develop their pedagogical practices accordingly. Teacher Education in the 21st Century presents a series of focused ideas and classroom plans along with real-life examples for enhancing the quality of teacher preparation efforts to develop young minds for the future. The editors and contributors have incorporated principles of constructive teaching, inclusive education, and integration of technology throughout the book. The book explicitly contextualizes the teaching practices and pedagogies in the social, cultural and linguistic landscape of India. The learning pedagogies, resource ideas, case studies, flowcharts and classroom activities in this book lay the essential groundwork for teachers and teacher-educators to apply in their daily teaching. The examples and case studies span across teaching contexts in primary, middle and high school grade levels"--