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Syllabus – Second Year

Pre-Internship Activities

This is meant to prepare the ground for making internship more meaningful and strengthen relation with the practicing schools.

Duration: 2 days
Provide an orientation to student teachers on the following, taking the help of School Teachers and or HMs:

• Preparing unit plans and lesson plans
• Identification of lessons and different resources available in school
• Construction of achievement and diagnostic test
• Maintaining peer group observation records
• Writing reflective journals
• Maintaining Physical Education records
• Preparing reports on school activities

Pre-internship conference with co-operating schools to be organized by institutions.

Pre-internship conference for institutions to be organized by DIETs.

These conferences are meant to inform and influence cooperating schools about how student teachers are prepared for teaching and also negotiate with them the expectations from the cooperating schools

Internship – this phase is meant to provide student teachers with a holistic experience of school and the role of the teacher.

Duration: 33 days

It consists of the following major activities:
1. Familiarising with the roles and responsibilities of teachers.
2. Teaching ( for 30 days )

For Year 1: LPS

For Year 2: HPS

Note: it is desirable that every student teacher is allotted 2 periods a day.

Rest of the time to be used for:

• Planning and preparation, including creating resources
• Peer observation and feedback ( At least 2 Periods per subject per student teacher)
• Reflections
• Other activities

• Lessons to integrate ICT, Arts in Education, Education for Peace and Inclusive Principles. This needs to be facilitated by mentor teacher and teacher educator. Observation schedules should include these components
• Teacher educators to use quality monitoring tool to assess every student teacher and share the same with student teachers to both give them feedback and let them know their progress.
• Assessment done by the teacher educator and mentor teacher are clubbed to a total of 50 marks for each of the three pedagogic courses offered.
• Records to be3 submitted for assessment :

• Unit plans
• Peer observation records Reflections
• One report each of other four activities undertaken
• Reflective Journal

3. SDMC Meetings – student teachers to do non-participant observation of SDMC meetings; Study school development plan and academic plan.

4.   School sponsored activities – Help with celebrations; Involve with regular school activities like mid-day meal, school assembly; Initiate activities like arranging guest talks, resource creation, teacher development groups; Create Wall magazines; Encouraging children to develop radio programmes; Take up theatre activities, school gardening and other similar activities.

5.   Community related activities – Visiting homes of a few children; interacting with members if community to understand their needs; Communicating to community members about school practices/ processes; Participating in community activities; planning and utilizing community resources for school.

Post Internship Activities

This is meant to consolidate learning’s from internship and help plan for the following year better. Such conference would also go a long way in ensuring synergy between teacher education institutions and practicing school.

Duration: 1 Day each

• Postinternship conference with schools organized by institutions
• Postinternship conference with institutions organized by DIET. The purpose of post internship conference is to reflect upon what went right and what went wrong. This should be done by the Teacher Education Institutions along with the student teachers. A separate post internship conference for the first year and second year stude3nt teachers is desirable as their purposes are different.