PROBLEMS OF STUDENT TEACHER DURING INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME: ISSUES AND CONCERNS

Internship programme for pre service teacher education system is one of the lively practical approach to make student teacher practice required skills and competencies to become an efficient teacher. Each teacher education institute implement 1 to 2 months of practice teaching sessions in schools. However during the internship programme student teacher faces several problems related to social, psychological, pedagogical and other miscellaneous dimensions which can obstruct the achieving of goal and objectives teacher education programme. Quality in teacher education system cannot be achieved without solving the problems. The current paper conducted a cross sectional study for three year to find out problems of student teachers during three academic session. It is found that novice teachers mainly face problems related to managing students and maintaining discipline in classroom. However other problems such as using teaching aids, communication related problems also explored during the investigation. Further it is suggested that teacher educators must counsel students to solve such problems arising during internship programme.