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Unit 20: Merits and Demerits of Internship in Teaching

• The existing practice of Student-Teaching evaluation, however, includes only the appraisal Notes
of teacher’s performance in the classroom and that to rather casually Sometimes, it is also
observed that supervisors evaluate only written plans, whereas how the student teacher
conducts his lesson are not evaluated. The classroom performance of the teacher in imparting
instruction is also not observed at all stage of development of the lesson.

20.7 Keywords

• Conductive : Able to conduct something or somebody
• Discussion : A conversation about somebody/something
• Evaluation : The process to form an opinion of the amount value of quality of something
after thinking about it carefully.
• Defects : A fault in something

20.8 Review Questions

1. What are the activities of internship (student teaching) programme?
2. Give the defects in teacher education system.
3. What are the effects merits and demerits of student teaching?
Answers: Self Assessment
(i) student teacher, supervisor (ii) internship
(iii) work experience (iv) practicing schools

20.9 Further Readings

1. Educational Management: Theory and Practice, J.A. Okumbe, Publisher Bairobi
University Press, 1998.
2. Educational Management : Strategy, Quality, and Resources, Margaret Preedy, Ron
Glatter, Publiser Open University Press, 1997.
3. The Principles and Practice of Educational Management: Tony Bush, Les Bell,
SAGE Publisher, 2002.

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