PERCEPTION OF TEACHER TRAINEES TOWARDS INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME IN PRACTICE

Abstract

Internship is a formal program to provide practical experience for trainee teachers in a teaching profession. The most important part of internship programme is that the trainee teachers integrate classroom knowledge and theory with practical application and skills developed in professional or school settings for a limited period of time. The objective of the study was to analyze the perception of Pre-service Teacher Trainees towards internship programme in practice. The present study was descriptive survey research. This study was conducted in 10 primary teacher training colleges of the Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal. Researcher had taken 50 teacher trainees as a sample on the basis of Simple Random Sampling. Questionnaire was used in order to collect information from teacher trainees for the study. The study found that 62% teacher trainees prepared 45 lesson plans during internship programme and 28% teacher trainees prepared 60 lesson plans whereas 10% teacher trainees prepared 90 lesson plans. Teacher trainees were prepared by teacher educators before going to internship through micro teaching class.