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Teacher Education

Notes (1) Before actual classroom teaching begins, and
(2) During classroom teaching.
Supervision before Classroom Teaching Begins: All teacher education institutions require their
student teachers to prepare their lesson plans and get them thoroughly discussed and checked up
by the subject specialist and make necessary modification in their lesson plans before they are
permitted to teach their lessons to their pupils in the class.
In brief, the Student-Teaching is an essential of the whole teacher education programme. The
proper organization and supervision of Student-Teaching is very necessary and of vital importance.
Without adequate organization and supervision, the objectives of Student-Teaching can not be
realized. It is only possible, when educational administrators, curriculum framers, teacher educator
and school teachers will cooperate in this programme.

Self Assessment
3. State whether the following statements are ‘True’ or ‘False’:
(i) Supervision consists of the guidance and evaluation of the activities of student teacher.
(ii) The present practice of just for five to ten minutes supervision each lesson enable the
student teacher to equip properly.
(iii) Teacher educators supervise the student teachers’.
(iv) The School teachers should not be treated as Cooperative teachers.
(v) The Supervision should be scientific and creative.

19.5 Summary
• 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.
• The educational improvement and reconstruction both in pre-service and in-service education
of teacher play a crucial and critical role. In pre-service programme of teacher education,
the crux is Student-Teaching. The quality of pre-service teacher education programme depends
on the quality of teaching effectiveness for turning out teachers who will prove more
effective both inside and outside the classroom in moulding the future generation; Student-
Teaching has necessarily to become more effective.
• A systematic organization of Student-Teaching is necessary. Without a proper organization,
Student-Teaching programme can not proceed smoothly and successfully. It is essential to
realize the objectives of Student-Teach.
• The organization of Student-Teaching varies from University to University. Some approaches
are as follow : Divide the student teachers into two batch-one batch is engage in the theory
classes while the other in teaching from the very beginning of the session for one and half
to two month.
• The duration of each block differs. Some institutions divide the student teachers into two
batches. One batch is engaged in the theory classes while the other batch is kept busy in
practice teaching.
• Student-Teaching is the most important part in the teacher education programme.
• Actual practice teaching should be organized in three phase. At first phase, 4 or 5 complete
lessons should be taught in simulated situation. As the second Phase, 15-20 micro lessons
may be taught in simulated situations. In this way, the theory and practice will go together.
In the third and final phase of practice teaching, 25-30 lessons should be conducted in
realistic situation in a block.

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