The Teacher Educators of the Govt. College of Teacher Education, Trivandrum , South India who observed the classes by the trainees
during the Second Spell of the Practice Teaching, 22nd June to 20th July 2009, had this to
say:
- Some
trainees were over confident, many made use of few teaching aids and there
was less of activity and more of teacher- talk.
- In
certain language classes, the trainees were found to explain the lines in
the text, read from the text , write the answers on the Black board, and
actively participate in the group work leaving very little scope for
pupils to use the target language.
Surprisingly, the reason given by the trainees was that many pupils who study Sanskrit,
Tamil or English at the secondary level, do not know even the alphabets of the language!
- Some
trainees failed to realize that pupils coming from a good economic
background, who have tuition for each subject would learn even without any
help from the school.
- Trainees
ought to have realized that the impressions they could make on the pupils
during PT was important.
- Some
trainees forgot the key to teaching, which they learned
in the Educational Psychology class viz;
to teach Greek, the teacher
should know John first!
- Trainees
need to remember that what they learned as part of PT has a gestation
period and only when they get jobs as teachers will they really realize
the importance of the training they received.
- Most
trainees showed a higher level of
confidence compared to that of the First Spell of PT
- Women
trainees ought to realize that a
soft voice is good for conversation … but in controlling a noisy batch of
students a soft voice is of no use.
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