SWOT Analysis of Teacher Educators in B.Ed. Department under West Bengal State University in West Bengal, India

The present study mainly intended to find out the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of B.Ed. Department, Gobardanga Hindu College under West Bengal State University in West Bengal, India with respect to various aspects of Teacher Educators. It also enquires about the attitude of Teacher Educators towards the elementary two years Teacher Education Programme and the teaching aptitude of student-teachers studying in this institution. Through the strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) method, this paper analyses the advantages and disadvantages of Teacher Educators in rural Gobardanda, North Twenty Four Parganas district at present as well as the existing opportunities and potential threats. In this study classify the teaching experiences of in the Teacher Training College from the academic year 2015-17, 2016-18, and 2017-19. The objective of the study is to present a brief review of the Teacher Educator’s contribution, exercise, best practices and focused on the significance of concerns, activities, and context. The methodology of the study is a mixed type involving interpretative, analytical study of documents, survey questionnaire, interview, observation and study secondary sources, like books, articles, journals, thesis, university news, expert opinion, and websites, etc. Finally, meaningful suggestions are offered.