Problems of Pupil Teachers during Internship Program of D.EL.ED. Course
Author : Sushanta Shil and Dr. Nimai Chand Maiti
Abstract :
An internship program for pre-service teacher education system is one of the lively practical approaches to make pupil teachers practice required skills and competencies to become efficient teachers. Each teacher education college implements 45 days of practice teaching sessions in primary and upper schools. During this internship program pupil teachers face several problems related to social, psychological, pedagogical and other miscellaneous dimensions which can obstruct the achieving of goal and objectives teacher education program. Quality and skills in the teacher education system cannot be achieved without solving the problems. The current paper conducted a cross sectional study for three years to find out problems of 120 pupil teachers during three academic sessions. It is found that pupil teachers mainly face problems related to managing pupils of school and maintaining discipline in the classroom. However other problems such as using teaching aids, communication related problems also explored during the study. Further it is suggested that teacher educators must counsel pupil teachers to solve such problems arising during internship program.
Keywords :
Problems, pupil teacher, internship program
