Pre‑Service Teacher Education
We don't recruit teachers. We grow them - from the community, for the community.
Preparing Transformative Teachers
Muktangan's Pre‑Service Teacher Education programme prepares men and women from underserved communities to become skilled, reflective, child‑friendly educators - the teachers who go on to transform public schools from the inside. The programme is completely free of cost, opening the profession to talented people who could never otherwise afford teacher training.
Curriculum Domains
Built on India's national framework for teacher education, organising learning into four connected domains.
Foundations of Education
Understanding the child, how learning happens, and the world around the classroom.
Curriculum & Pedagogy
Designing and teaching the curriculum.
Enhancing Professional Capacities
The personal, creative, and practical skills that make a great educator.
School Internship
Sustained, supervised teaching in real classrooms, integrated throughout the programme.
Years 2 & 3 deepen subject pedagogy – mathematics, language, science, social studies, along with ECD, special education, pastoral care, librarianship, and leadership.
Aligned with NEP 2020 and National Standards
To develop teachers from the community who are passionate about transforming the way children learn
Nurturing them as reflective thinkers, empathetic facilitators, and skilled practitioners.
The Opportunity We Create
Two gaps hold back public education: children need great teachers, and talented people in underserved communities - especially women - rarely get access to quality teacher education.
Muktangan closes both at once. Because the programme is offered free of cost, the biggest barrier disappears. We open the profession to community members who know their children and context intimately, and we prepare them to an exacting standard. The result is trusted teachers for the classroom and new careers and leadership for the community.
Learning by Doing & Reflecting
Our trainees learn the way we want them to teach: actively, by doing and reflecting.
Active constructivism
Trainees experience child‑centred learning firsthand, so they understand and value it before they lead it.
The 5E model in every session
Engage → Explore → Explain → Elaborate → Evaluate – keeping learning meaningful, experiential, and tied to real classrooms.
Differentiated instruction
Sessions are designed so trainees with different levels of English can all participate, reflect, and grow with confidence.
Theory meets practice, every week
Roughly 3½ days of academic sessions and 2 full days of classroom fieldwork, plus regular exposure visits.
Mentoring, Care & Professional Growth
We support trainees as professionals and as individuals rooted in their communities.
- Orientation and home visits for trainees and their families
- Regular appraisals, reflective feedback, and ongoing mentoring
- A structured lesson‑evaluation tool that makes growth concrete and continuous
Balak Palak Mela
Each year, our trainees design and run a large learning‑through‑play mela for preschool children and their parents. Children and parents take part, trainees create Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) activity corners, and it models joyful, play‑based learning – families often stay to explore long after school hours.
Research & Publications
Presented: Constructive Play: A Play‑Based Pedagogy, by Shreya Sawant and Jyoti Chinta, at a symposium on Education for the Foundational Stage, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru – February 2024.
Published: in Play and Early Learning Environment, Volume 1 – May 2025.
Frequently Asked Questions
It is a hands‑on programme that trains community members – many of them women – to become child‑centred teachers, combining academic study with substantial classroom practice.
No. The programme is completely free of cost for every trainee – there are no fees.
It is designed for members of the communities Muktangan serves.
It runs across multiple years, blending roughly 3½ days of academic sessions with 2 full days of classroom fieldwork each week, plus exposure visits.
Trainees learn through active constructivism and the 5E model, are mentored individually, and practise in real classrooms throughout – so theory and practice develop together.
Graduates go on to teach in Muktangan's schools and beyond.
Yes – its focus on foundational learning, experiential pedagogy, mentoring, and widening access to the profession reflects NEP 2020's teacher‑education priorities.
Great teachers change lives. Help us grow them.
From the community, for the community – support a trainee, partner with us, or explore our teacher education resources.