Orientation Programe (SIOP). Students of Physical
Education and Recreation Program (Perp) And
Primary Teacher Education Study Program (PTESP)
study program and Primary Teacher Education Study
Program (PTESP), feel they do not have enough
provision to carry out School Internship Orientation
Programe (SIOP), this has an impact on decreasing
self-confidence.
2 TEACHING INTERNSHIP
The objectives of practice teaching exercise as
enumerated by (Akbar, 2002) are as follows:
1. to provide an opportunity of evaluating the students
potentials as a teacher and suitability for the
teaching profession,
2. to provide the future teachers with experience in
school to overcome the problem of discipline and
enable him/her develop method of control,
3. to provide an opportunity to put theories into
practice and develop deeper understanding of
educational principles and their implication of
learning,
4. to enable the student teachers effectively plan and
prepare lessons,
5. to develop skills in the use of fundamental
procedures, techniques and method of teaching,
6. to enable students acquire desirable
characteristics/traits of a teacher and display
appropriate behavior,
7. to develop desirable professional; interest, attitudes
and ideas relative to teaching profession,
8. to provide student-teachers with opportunity to
have teaching evaluation and to gain from
constructive criticism,
9. to provide an opportunity for self-evaluation and
to discover one's strength and weakness,
10. to develop skill in future teachers related to
teaching like fluent speaking, meaningful reading,
using the board and other teaching materials.
Other than the student-teachers, the participating
and cooperating institution (the Universities/Colleges
and the practice schools) the staff and the pupils also
benefit from well planned, organized and
implemented programme of Practice teaching.
The school serves as the clinical experience
laboratory for the student teachers. The co-operating
school and its teachers are thereby provided the
opportunity to develop and improve their supervising
skills. The co-operating teachers also come in contact
with teacher education experts from the participating
college or university. This brings new ideas for
improving the school's curriculum. To the pupils,
teaching provides them opportunities to experience
new strategies and improved methods and materials
for an effective teaching. Practice teaching assists the
training institutions to evaluate the effectiveness of
the entire pre-service teacher-education programme
and see how effective it is. It also helps them to
identify problems both of the school and the student
teachers which require investigation and solution.
Practice teaching also creates a good environment
for educators to conduct research as well as apply
research findings to actual school situations. From the
foregoing therefore, it is evident that practice
teaching is a means for developing mutually
beneficial relationships between the participating
Colleges/Universities and the co-operating schools so
that theory is tested by practice and vice versa. It must
be emphasized however that the prime beneficiary of
practice teaching is the student teacher for whom the
whole range of activities is organized, spill over
benefits accrue to the other participants (Ogbodo
2013).
In the internship, a co-teacher and a mentor share
a class for one school term. Mentors play a crucial
role in helping the co-teacher take on the
responsibility for all aspects of classroom teaching.
The mentor teacher needs to know how and when to
let go of their responsibility and transfer it to their co-
teacher. For some mentors this can be very
challenging. The challenge in a small number of cases
arises when there is evidence that the co-teacher is not
confident and is not coping well with the class. The
urge to take back the responsibility for some is
difficult for some mentors to resist
3 FINDINGS
The results of the study showed: (1) PERP Study
Program students. 48 students (41.74%) were in the
good enough category, followed by 31 people
(26.96%) in the poor category, 19 students (16.52%)
were in the average category and 5 (4.35%) were
labeled terrible and 12 students were in the excellent
category (10.43%) (2) PTESP Study Program
students. 31 students (50.82%) were in average
category, 15 people were in the good category
(24.59%), 12 were in the poor category (19.67%), 2
students were in the terrible category (3.28%), and
only a student was in the excellent category (1.64%).
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