IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNSHIP IN TEACHINGAT SECONDARY LEVEL IN DAVANAGERE AND KUVEMPU UNIVERSITIES OF KARNATAKA - A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Internship programme is designed to assist pre-service teachers in acquiring professional skills that are necessary to be successful teachers.NCFTE-2009 expects the student-teachers to implement certain activities during the Internship programme. Present study is intended to know to what extent the student teachers develop the Unit plans and maintain Reflective Journals during their Internship Programme at schools. It is a survey type comparative study of the two Universities. The sample of the study consisted of 170 student teachers of B.Ed. Colleges of one Aided and two Unaided Colleges of Davanagere University and 146 student teachers of B.Ed. Colleges of one Aided and two Unaided Colleges of Kuvempu University. A Questionnaire on various aspects of Unit plan and Reflective Journal was used to collect the data. The study revealed that Majority of the student teachers of both the universities prepare unit plans during their internship. Davanagere University is in better position when compared with Kuvempu University with regard to preparation of Unit plans in both the subjects. Kuvempu University is slightly better than Davanagere University in preparing Unit plans based on multiple sources of information, teachers' guidance and needs of the learners. Majority of the student teachers of both the universities have felt that the preparation of Unit plans have helped in writing lesson plans as well as solving classroom problems. All most all the student teachers, except a few (3% -5%) have submitted their Unit plans to the college. Maintenance and assessment of Reflective Journal is better in Davanagere University than Kuvempu University. Nearly half of the student teachers of both the Universities have not maintained the Reflective Journal during the Internship. This shows that both the Universities have to take the teacher preparation programme seriously.