REPORT
ON LEARNING EXPERIENCES
Name: Md. G. Husain
Roll
No. 18MED-01
Class: M.Ed. 3rd Semester
AMU CITY HIGH SCHOOL
ALIGARH
Learning Experiences of M.Ed.
Internship programme
Introduction
The internship is so designed to
prepare teachers not only for their roles as classroom teachers of children but
also as professionals studying their own teaching practice, participating in
site-based decision making and according their work with teachers and other
members of the school community. Practice teaching occupies a key position in
the program of teacher education. It is a culminating experience in teacher
preparation. It provides opportunity to begging teachers to become socialized
into the profession (Furlong et.al, 1988). Key consideration in shaping good
teaching practice includes:
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Encouraging good communication
between teachers and learners.
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Encouraging interaction among
learners.
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Providing opportunities for
active participation.
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Timely and appropriate response
and feedback.
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Emphasizing time on task.
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Motivating learning by
communicating expectations.
Internships are known
for giving students the opportunity to apply their knowledge in real world environment.
At the same time, they will also develop skills which will help them to perform
better at their job. Through internships, students are provided with experience
that will make them stronger. In addition to this, their work ethics will
increase, and they will be confident in their abilities. Internships will also
allow students to learn about time management, discipline, and effective
communication skills.
Objectives of the Internship
The internship
program has the following purposes:
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To get detailed knowledge of teaching
field.
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To experience the practically
teaching learning process.
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To compare the real scenario
with the lessons learned.
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To fulfill the need of student through
a proper B.Ed. programme.
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To develop the attitude towards
her/his duty.
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To provide an opportunity to
evaluate students ability in learning and bring improvement in them.
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To provide the atmosphere to
make a good relationship with students.
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To develop personal
relationship with others: administrators, teachers, parents and students.
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To provide the opportunity to
become a good teacher who will create good discipline and adopt a suitable
teaching method according the students needs.
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To provide the field where they
can apply all teaching learning theories to make teaching effective
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To provide an opportunity for
self-evaluation and to discover own strength and weaknesses.
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To develop skills in future teachers related to teaching like fluent speaking, meaningful reading, using blackboard and
other teaching material.
During Internship period, I gained
Learning experiences
Motivation Level
Prospective teacher was trying to motivate pupil-teacher in a systematic
manner. Pupil-teacher was under the
prospective teacher in the classroom, during teacher training process. Prospective
teacher was motivating pupil-teacher by way of giving direction in a systematic way. Prospective teacher
learnt many things from pupil-teacher
and students in the classroom.
He also stimulated pupil-teacher to employ teaching skills like stimulus
variation, reinforcement in the classroom.
Skill Level
When pupil-teacher was trying to employ teaching skills in the classroom during teaching
training programme then he learns what the importance of skill is in the
teaching learning process. Prospective teacher was placed as supervisor to observe and to give feedback to pupil teacher in the
classroom. He also got experience by way of observing the pupil-teacher in
classroom. Prospective teacher was already knew about the teaching skills how
to employ in effective manner in his lesson plan. Prospective teacher got well developed experience related to teaching
skills like stimulus variation, reinforcement, gestures, movement, and voice
level. He also guided pupil-teacher to employ teaching skills during development
of lesson by which s/he would achieve those objectives which s/he developed in
her/his lesson plan.
Attitude Level
Prospective teacher has changed the attitude of the pupil teacher towards teaching learning process
by way of observing them in proper manner in the classroom. Attitude is considered as inherent
tendency of the prospective teacher
which played very important role
in teaching process. She also got experience of employing his attitude in her
supervisory training in the classroom. Her attitude was satisfactory
for the pupil teacher. Pupil teacher also changed her attitude towards teaching
learning process in the
classroom.
Behavioral Level
Prospective teacher concentrated on each and every activities of
pupil-teacher which reflected behavior of the pupil-teacher in the classroom.
Prospective teacher transformed his behavior according to the
requirement of the teaching process the
classroom. Pupil-teacher in the classroom
was making her/his rapport with
students by way of interacting in the classroom. It is the best way of developing behavioral activities in the classroom.
Confidence Level
Confidence level of prospective teacher was improving by facing the
classroom in systematic manner. Supervisor was responsible for observing each and every activities of
pupil-teacher in teaching
learning process which developed the
confidence in desirable manner. Teaching training process is the best way for both pupil-teacher and
supervisor to develop confidence level.
Discipline
Discipline should be considered as self for every person according to
requirements of the teaching process in the classroom. Pupil-teacher was trying
to create conducive environment for suitable teaching learning for the students. This condition compelled to develop favourable discipline for
both pupil-teacher and supervisor
in the classroom. Supervisor learnt in well manner to create discipline in his desirable manner. Discipline play key role in teaching learning process
in the classroom.
Classroom Management
This is a very challenging task for each teacher in the school. This needs a proper preparation of management skills. They
are given certain point on how
to maintain classroom for the creation of effective class environment. The
administrative capabilities of the supervisor played key role in developing all
those teaching skills which will helpful in creating conducive environment in the
classroom.
Use of Teaching
Aid
Teaching aids are very useful and helpful in understanding the concept. The pupil-teacher was given
direction on how to use teaching-aid in the classroom and they got
benefit by using it. Teaching aid is an essential component for good teaching learning because It helps in easiness of concept understanding and memory.
Application Level
Supervisor learnt all teaching skills to employ in the classroom. These
skills also developed by the pupil-teacher in her/his
lesson plan to employ them in desirable manner. S/he knew how to apply the
teaching skills in the classroom.
Analysis Ability
Supervisor also got experience of the analysis ability during the teaching
training programme. He analyzed the whole teaching training
process for developing learning among
students in the classroom.
Internship benefits Include:
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Developing personally and professionally while gaining confidence and real-world experience.
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Meeting and networking with practitioners in one’s area of interest.
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Mentoring and performance feedback from the supervisor.
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Earning academic credit.
Suggestions
Due to lack of resources teacher training lacks some of the aspects of teaching, but
with the help of both the pupil-teacher and observer that can be removed. For
this the following suggestions are given:
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Pupil teacher need to control their emotion in the classroom.
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Pupil teacher need to develop confidence in front of students.
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Pupil teacher should improve his/her mastery level in subject matters.
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Demo for preparing the teaching aids related to topics.
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Pupil teacher will learn skills based on management of class.
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Pupil teacher will use motivational activity in classroom.
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It should be ensured that student teachers keep the sequence of lessons in such a way, so that
they can teach all types of
lessons and use different teaching methods.
Conclusion
Finally, we can say
that this teaching training process was very important for both pupil-teacher and
supervisor. Supervisor got lot of experience through observation of teaching
training process in the classroom. Pupil-teacher also got experience in
teaching learning process with the guidance of supervisor in the classroom.
This is the only way of preparing strong pillar for the nation on which it stands.