A Study on Practice Teaching Programme in Teacher Education Institutions of Osmania University

Abstract

Practice teaching is the one of the key practical component of any pre-service teacher education training programme. The current study investigated preparation of lesson plan, cooperation from the school, feedback mechanism in practice teaching programme and problems faced by school Headmaster/Headmistress to organize the practice teaching in pre-service teacher education at secondary level. Multi-stage sampling was used. The data was collected using tools viz., Questionnaire, Observation Schedule and Semi-structured interview. The collected data was analysed by using both quantitative as well as qualitative techniques. The findings of the study revealed that demonstration of macro lessons given by subject teachers in the cooperating school and method teacher educators are very useful for novice student teachers. The cooperation from the Headmaster/Headmistress and subject teachers of the cooperating practice teaching school is one of the key successes of the practice teaching programme. Innovative lesson plans are to be widely used in practice teaching. The present study findings also revealed that written feedback is more effective than oral feedback. It can be concluded that, there is dire to need good collaboration in between University, Teacher education colleges, and practice teaching schools to success in the organization of practice teaching programme and the organization time of practice teaching also another key factor of school function.