The B.Ed. Internship Programme: Through the Eyes of the Practicing Schools

Authors: T. Alemla Longkumer , Dr. Anjali Karmakar

Pages: 43-48

Abstract:

Internship or Practice Teaching, is an important aspect of the B.Ed. programme, that provides the ground for convertingtheoretical knowledge into practice. The introduction of the Two-Year B.Ed. programme in India, by the NCTE in 2014, hadincreased the duration of the Internship programme to 20 weeks, of which 16 weeks was for Internship in Practicing Schools.The scope of the Internship programme was also significantly enhanced. But while the engagement of schools for PracticeTeaching, had been one of the major problems even under the 1-Year B.Ed. programme, the increased duration would, withoutdoubt, aggravate the problem. While research on Teacher Education has, over the years, studied problems pertaining toPractice Teaching/Internship, from the perspective of Teacher Education Institutions, student teachers and teacher educators,limited studies have taken the perspectives of the Practicing Schools, though some of the major identified problems pertaining toPractice Teaching/Internship, are related to the Practicing Schools. Hence, this study has focused on the problems ofInternship/Practice Teaching, from the point of view of the Practicing Schools identified by Secondary Teacher EducationInstitutions, in the state of Nagaland, India.