Conduct of Practicals

  The Programme consists of the following four groups of Courses:

Practicals will be held both in Practice Teaching Schools and in Colleges of Education identified as Programme Study Centres. Two practical workshops of 24 days duration, i.e., 12 days each spreading over 2 years, with intensive face-to-face interaction to develop skills and competencies will also be organised at the Programme Centres. The student-teachers will have to do various practical activities required for the development of teaching skills and competencies in the school under the guidance of the supervisor and Principal/Headmaster after taking due permission from the school concerned. Overall a student is expected to go through approximately 300 hours of contact time.

Each student has to submit 8 Practical Oriented Assignments (POA) on each theory course

Core courses                       :      5  Assignments

Methodology of courses     :     2  Assignments

Optional courses                 :      1  Assignment

These assignments must be submitted by student-teachers for comments and evaluation to the Academic Counsellor or to the Co-ordinator of the Programme Study Centre.

POAs shall carry 8 credits.

School-based practical work

Each  student-teacher  has  to select any school-based activities worth of  4 credits (120 hours) and submit a report for each activity.

  The following activities are suggested for Practical work :

• Maintenance of school Registers and Records (1 credit)

• Addressing the school assembly (1 credit)

• Conducting a socio-metric test i the class (½ credit)

•  Content Analysis of a Teaching unit (½ unit)

• Administration of psychological test to one student and analysis of results (1 credit).

• Preparation of cumulative records (½ credit)

•  Preparation of school-time table (½ credit)

• Organizing  a  career talk / a PTA meeting / a Debate / a Panel Discussion a Quiz programme (½ credit)

• Action Research on a school-related problem (credit: 1)

• Field-trip to a Community Resource (zoological park, factory, museum, dam, State Assembly, etc.) (credit : 1)

• Organizing a Social Awareness Campaign (Nutrition, sanitation, blood donation,environment) (credit : 1)

Work-shop-Based practical activities

Each student-teacher has to participate in two 12-day workshop activities, one in the first year before the commencement of practice teaching and another one in the second year after teaching practice is over. The purpose of the workshop is to help a student-teacher to acquire skills for planning his teaching and managing his classroom.

Participation in work-shop activities carries 4 credits.

Practice Teaching

Each student-teacher has to prepare and teach 20 lessons in each of the two optional subjects selected by him/her and teach them in a recognised High/Higher Secondary school.

Teaching practice carries 8 credits