The book is divided into five chapters; the first chapter “Secondary Level Pre-Service Teacher Education: Birds Eye View” is introductory in nature reflecting international, national and constitutional perspective of teacher education at secondary level. It describes the present teacher education system in different country at present. Starting from historical development of teacher education in post independent India this chapter also deliberates on different trends and issues in the field of teacher education.

Chapter two is “Competencies of Pupil Teachers in Terms of Background Variables in Different Modalities of Pre-Service Teacher Education”. In this chapter wide literature study has been made to find out research gap and contradictory finding in the fields on various aspects of teaching competencies. On the basis of it the present study is derived in the form of research question and accordingly the objective of the study was fixed. Null hypothesis has been formed to test it to get findings in the next chapters of the book.

Third chapter is “The Method of Study”. This chapter described the setting of the study, design, participants, tools and techniques used to collect data.

Chapter four is “Analysis of Teaching Competencies in Relation to Background Variables”. On the basis of statistical analysis of findings results has been derived. How different background variables play their role to determine different competencies of teachers like knowledge, attitude and teaching skill has been derived in this chapter on the basis of statistical analysis.

Last chapter five is “Significance and Educational Implications”. This chapter discussed the impact of each findings and significance of it to pupil teacher, teacher educators, policy makers and managers, curriculum framers, different institutions.