• Dr. Nisha Rani

School internship programme in teacher education in India is witnessing a change in the earlier specified practice-teaching involving teaching of a pre-specified number of lessons in the subjects opted by a student-teacher as teaching or methods subjects. The NCTE Regulations, 2009 made an attempt to broaden the scope of practice-teaching by emphasizing the importance of providing experience of all activities and programmes of the school to the student-teachers. The NCTE Regulations, 2014 have specified further strengthening of the component of ‘Field Engagement’ by prescribing a longer duration of 20 weeks for it in the B.Ed. In the present paper researchers has made an attempt to study the perception of teacher educators and student teachers about the engagement of 18 weeks (16+2 weeks) with the field in B.Ed. 3rd semester Internship Programme as per the curriculum of H.N.B Garhwal University, Srinagar, Uttarakhand. For the study responses from 50 teacher educators and 50 student teachers selected from 10 different B.Ed. colleges of Dehradun District were collected. To collect the data, open ended questionnaire for teacher educators and student teachers were developed, based on various guidelines for internship mentioned in the curriculum of H.N.B Garhwal University, Srinagar, Uttarakhand. It was found that pupil-teachers faced many problems during their internship in B.Ed. 3rd semester. Not only the pupil-teachers but the teacher educators also realized the problems faced by the inters.

Internship, Teacher Educators, Student Teacher.

"A Study of the B.Ed Internship Programme as Perceived by Teacher Educators and Student Teachers", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.171-176, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907I25.pdf

"A Study of the B.Ed Internship Programme as Perceived by Teacher Educators and Student Teachers", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp171-176, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907I25.pdf