REFERRED to the pedagogical skills of a teacher.Pre-service teacher education programs play a vital role in producing effective teachers who possess theoretical as well as practical knowledge of classroom practices.Competency-basedCompetency-based learning or competency-based education is a framework for teaching and assessment of learning.Competency-based learning is sometimes presented as an alternative to traditional methods of assessment in education.The concept of competency-based learning focuses on 3 key characteristics: learner-centric, differentiation, and learning outcomes.Behaviouristic Behaviorists look at learning as an aspect of conditioning and will advocate a system of rewards and targets in education. The major models of the behavior THEORY of learning are classical conditioning and operant conditioning.The role of the behaviorist teacher educator is providing stimulus material and prompting the correct response, while the learner's role is to be the receiver of the information response until the behavioral change is permanent.Inquiry oriented This model was designed by Richard Suchman to teach students to engage in causal reasoning and to become more fluent and precise in asking questions, building concepts and hypotheses, and testing them. Inquiry learning provides opportunities for students to experience and ACQUIRE processes through which they can gather information about the world.This requires a high level of interaction among the learner, the teacher, area of study, AVAILABLE resources, and the learning environment, students become actively involved in the learning processList IModels of teacher educationList IIDescriptiona) Compentency basedi) Participants become proficient through DEMONSTRATING masteryb) Behaviouristicii) Principle of operant conditioning used for teacher trainingc) Inquiry orientediii) Participants explore academic content by posing and investigating question