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Teacher Education Kulwinder Pal, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 19: Internship in Teaching—Organisation,

Supervision

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
19.1 Meaning of Internship Student Teaching
19.2 Objectives of Internship Student Teaching
19.3 Organization of Student Teaching
19.4 Supervision of Internship Student Teaching
19.5 Summary
19.6 Keywords
19.7 Review Questions
19.8 Further Readings

Objectives

After reading this unit, students will be able to:
• To discuss about the meaning of Internship student teaching.
• To explain about the objectives of Internship student Teaching.
• To discuss about the organisation of student teaching.
• To analyse about the supervision of internship student teaching.

Introduction

Teaching is nothing but a kind of preaching, in which we have to simply assimilate. The modern
perspective, teaching is an influencing directed activity in which we influence upon the minds of
the students. Teaching involves interaction between teacher and taught.
The ‘internship’ term is borrowed medical ship. It is an orientation and practice for job
performance. It is generally used after completion of the vocation course for preparing and
orienting a candidate for actual job performance.

19.1 Meaning of Internship Student Teaching
Student-Teaching is the nucleus of any pre-service teacher training programme. In Student-
Teaching, the student-teachers get an opportunity to gain practical, experiences of many useful
things that they learn in theory classes.
There are two terms or words involved in the concept of Student-Teaching. Such as student-
teaching. ‘Student’ mean a group of persons whom we are going to train and must possess all the
qualities which are required for a students such as personality, intelligence, etc.
Teaching is nothing but a kind of preaching, in which we have to simply assimilate. The modern
perspective, teaching is an influencing directed activity in which we influence upon the minds of
the students. Teaching involves interaction between teacher and taught. Teaching activity should
be well planned, well designed and well thought to result into some change in behaviour that is
learning. Since student teaching is a process which is completed during the period of internship
so it is called as internship student teaching.

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