Internship-Diet-Farrukhabad

The past few years have witnessed a paradigm shift in the concept of school internship courses

in India. The earlier stipulation of practice-teaching involved teaching of a pre-specified

number of lessons in the subjects offered by a student-teacher as teaching or methods subjects.

The NCTE Regulations, 2009 made an attempt to broaden the scope of practice-teaching by

emphasising the importance of providing experience of all activities and programmes of the

school to the student-teachers. The NCTE Regulations, 2014 have stipulated further

strengthening of the component of ‘Field Engagement’ by prescribing a longer duration of 20

weeks for it in the elementary and secondary teacher education programmes like D.El.Ed.,

B.El.Ed, B.Ed, B.A.B.Ed., and B.Sc.B.Ed. and B.Ed.-M.Ed. The ‘Field Engagement’ of 20

weeks has been further split into two parts consisting of 4 weeks and 16 weeks to be organized

in the first and second year of the Two-Years programmes, and in the second, third and fourth

year of the Four-Year programmes. The engagement of 16 weeks’ duration is further split into

14 weeks of school internship and 2 weeks of engagement with the field other than the school

(i.e. community engagement). Further, the total internship time is to be split between two types

of schools at the rate of 80% and 20%.