Guidelines for School Internship including Practice Teaching (External)
1. The full marks of such external examination is 100.
2. A lesson-plan note book, containing four lessons of primary classes (One each on Language-1, Language-2, Mathematics and Environmental Sciences), note planned and delivered earlier, will have to be submitted by the examinees to the external evaluator for evaluation.
3. The four lesson plans on four subjects of classes-I— IV will be evaluated on the spot.
4. The full marks of this part of evaluation is 30 (4x7V2).
5. Classroom-demonstration on any two of the four lessons, planned and submitted for final evaluation, one of which must be on language, will be evaluated by means of live teaching demonstrations in the Primary schools (to be selected by the Heads of respective DIETs and PTTIs).
6. The full marks for classroom demonstration is 50 (2x 25).
7. Twenty marks are given on the assessment of the evidences/reports of any two of the following ‘other internship activities’, performed during the internship: (2x10).
8. Such reports, duly certified as performed/executed by at least one Teacher Educator as guide/supervisor, will have to be submitted for evaluation. List of other internship Activities
I. To observe children and the teaching learning process in a systematic manner (Evidences on Classroom Observation/Peer Teaching Observation are to be assessed.)
II. To evaluate school textbooks and other resource material critically in the context of children’s development and pedagogic approach used (Evidences on Text Book/Content Analyses to write down the objectives of lessons and dividing and sub-dividing the lessons into units and sub-units etc. are to be assessed.)
III. To develop a repertoire of resources which can be used by the intern later in his/her teaching - textbooks, children's literature, activities and games, excursions (Evidences of developing and preparing learning teaching materials, activities, games etc are to be assessed.)
IV. To reflect critically on practice by visiting a learning centre (Evidences/Reports of visit to the schools other than the allotted one, if any, are to be assessed.)
V. To experience the school in its totality; activities in addition to classroom teaching, include school activities and interaction with parents. (Evidences/Reports on the entire system of the allotted school/s are to be assessed.)
VI. To be able to innovate within existing systemic limitations (Evidences/ reports on innovation within existing systemic limitations are to be assessed)
VII. To learn to conduct meaningful classroom activities by careful selection and organization of such activities (Evidences/Reports of organizing and conducting meaningful classroom activities are to be assessed.)
VIII. To critically reflect on his/her own school experiences and keep records of the same. (Evidences/Reports of maintenance of performance records are to be assessed.)
09. The report should have the following parts: (I) Introduction (ii) Description of the Scheme of organization (Hi) Execution of the Activity (iv) Process of collection of data/ evidences (v) Uniqueness/lnnovation in the Activity (Vi) Observations of the student-teacher
