A Board of Examiners for reviewing the internal assessment, in various courses will be appointed by the DIET Principal, as per orders to be issued by the Director, Directorate of Teacher Education, Research and Training (DTERT). This board will consist of four members drawn from DIET/Government and Government Aided TTIs of the District concerned. The senior most DIET faculty member in the Board will be the Chairperson. The chairperson should monitor the entire proceedings of the internal assessment. The Board will review the performance and records maintained for internal assessment relating to Taught Courses, Teaching Practice and Practicum not exceeding 50 students on a day. The Board will finalize the marks awarded to the students for various practical courses and teaching practice in grades and the marks for the continuous internal assessment in taught courses and submit the final mark lists and grade sheets in a sealed cover to the DIET Principal who constituted the Board. The DIET principal should send all the Mark statements and the Grade Sheets of the entire district with the consolidated abstract to the Director of Government of Examination (DGE).
Daily Time Table
8.45 a.m – Morning Assembly Session
(Thamil Thai Valthu, Prayer Song, Prayer, Scripture Reading,
Thirukural, Thought for the Day, Daily News, Proverbs,
Flag Hoisting, Flag Song, Pledge, National Anthem)
Fore Noon Session
9.00 am – 10.00 am – 1st Period
10.00 am – 10.50 am – 2nd Period
10.50 am – 11.00 am – Interval
11.00 am – 11.50 am – 3rd Period
11.50 am – 12.45 am – 4th Period
12.45 am – 01.45 pm – Lunch
After Noon Session
01.45 pm – 02.35 pm – 5th Period
02.35 pm – 03.30 pm – 6th Period
03.30 pm – 03.40 pm – Interval
03.40 pm – 04.30 pm – Group Activities
CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
The following Co-curricular activities are suggested for student teachers.
A. DAILY ACTIVITIES
All the student teachers should be divided into five groups.
The following Co-curricular activities should be carried out by each group on turn basis during the week days from 3.40PM to 4.30PM.
- Hands on Training in computers.
- Work Experience Activities.
- Community Work.
- Library Work.
- Yoga and Games (Physical Education)
B. CLUB ACTIVITIES
Various club activities may be arranged by the institute to present and share the ideas, performance and activities by the trainees amount themselves and with teachers in the nearby schools. The following club activities are suggested.
- Literary Association (Tamil & English).
- Science Club.
- Mathematics Club.
- Social Science Club.
- Fine Arts Club and other clubs for similar activities.
While conducting activities, more chance for participation should given to students. All the students should be encouraged to participate in the activities of their own interest. Teacher representatives should guide student organizers while conducting various activities.
C. SCOUT ACTIVITIES
Scout training should be made an integral part of teacher training programme in the institute. A faculty member from the institute should be given scout master’s training and he will be in-change of all the scout activities of 10 days. Scout training should be arranged with the help of District Scout Officials.
The D.T Ed., Course Duration for 2 Years Seven Subjects and One Semester and Commission per year.The Subjects follow for both years
I Year
1. Learning Child (LC) (102) 100 Mark for Subject and 25 for Internal Total – 125
2.Facilitating And Enhancing Learning (FEL) (104) 100 Mark for Subject and 25 for Internal Total – 125
3. Learning Tamil (106) 100 Mark for Subject and 25 for Internal Total – 125
4 Learning English (108) 100 Mark for Subject and 25 for Internal Total – 125
5 Learning Mathematics (110) 100 Mark for Subject and 25 for Internal Total – 125
6 Learning Science (112) 100 Mark for Subject and 25 for Internal Total – 125
7 Learning Science (114) 100 Mark for Subject and 25 for Internal Total – 125
Subject Pass for 50/100 and Internal Mark for 13/25 (100+25=125)
II Year
1. Indian Education System (IES) (202) 100 Mark for Subject and 25 for Internal Total – 125
2.Facilitating And Enhancing Learning (FEL) (204) 100 Mark for Subject and 25 for Internal Total – 125
3. Learning Tamil (206) 100 Mark for Subject and 25 for Internal Total – 125
4 Learning English (208) 100 Mark for Subject and 25 for Internal Total – 125
5 Learning Mathematics (210) 100 Mark for Subject and 25 for Internal Total – 125
6 Learning Science (212) 100 Mark for Subject and 25 for Internal Total – 125
7 Learning Science (214) 100 Mark for Subject and 25 for Internal Total – 125
Subject Pass for 50/100 and Internal Mark for 13/25 (100+25=125)
Duration
Duration of the course is two academic years with 220 working days in a year.
First Year
2 Days Child Observation and doing Case Study 10 Hrs
6 Days School Visit 30 Hrs
40 Days Internship 200 Hrs
172 Days Class work (Theory and Practicum) 860 Hrs
Total 1100 Hrs
Second Year
8 Days Project Related Work 40 Hrs
40 Days Internship 200 Hrs
172 Days Class work (Theory and Practicum) 860 Hrs
Total 1100 Hrs
Taught Courses
First Year
1. The Learning Child
2. Facilitating and Enhancing Learning
3. Teaching of Tamil/Kannada/ Urdu /Malayalam
4. Teaching of English
5. Teaching of Mathematics
6. Teaching of Science
7. Teaching of Social Sciences
Second Year
1. Indian Education System
2. Facilitating and Enhancing Learning
3. Teaching of Tamil
4. Teaching of English
5. Teaching of Mathematics
6. Teaching of Science
7. Teaching of Social Sciences
Practicum
Subjects taught under practicum
Trainees will do the following practicals under practicum
First Year
VIII. Observing Children and doing Case Study
IX. School Visit
X. Story Telling
XI. Physical Education, Health Education & Yoga
XII. Self- Development workshop
XIII. Teaching Learning materials
Second Year
VIII. Self- Development Workshop
IX. Teaching Learning Materials
X. Physical Education, Health Education & Yoga
XI. Art Education & Work Experience
XII. Educational Computing
XIII. Projects
A brief note on practicum
Observing Children
This practice gives trainee teachers excellent opportunities to understand how children learn in various settings. They develop the skills of interviewing children and observing them. Recording their observations and reflecting on them helps, them understand various learning styles of children.
School Visit
School Visit helps the trainees to acquire a through understanding on the structure and functioning of schools, to know about indicators of school development and to appreciate and mobilize community participation for activities.
Story Telling
Trainee teachers identify their own skills of story telling and pick out stories relevant and interesting that children enjoy at different age levels. ~ Groups of students will critically reflect on story presentations. Professional story presentations. Professional story tellers could be invited to recount stories in Tamil and English.
Health Education and Yoga
The knowledge of Health Education and yoga helps the trainees to understand the concepts of Total Health and to know about the advantages of practicing yoga.
Self Development Workshops
These workshops are conducted in both the 1st and 2nd year under the getting help from professionals. They help teacher-trainees develop soft skills and integrated personality. These workshop shall help trainees respect individual differences and resolve conflicts in a collaborative way.
Teaching Learning Materials
It is obvious that Audio-Visual aids maximize learning. TLM help students associate content knowledge with the learner. The development of Educational Technology ensures improvisation of TLM. Each TLM has its own advantages. Students
need to be given adequate exposure to the optimum utilization of locally available resources.
Physical Education
Physical Education is related to the over all sense of well being and self-worth. This subject ensures a healthy development of sports culture and sportsmanship. Trainee teachers tend to learn to need to observe rules for playing games. Sports and games develop team spirit and enables the students to play for the Institute, the State and later the Nation. It also helps students develop good physique and lead a disciplined life.
Art Education and Work Experience
Dramatics and education are inter related. Drama is one of the natural ways for learning, Trainee Teachers are encouraged to use the techniques of drama, not exactly drama as such, for enhancing teaching learning process. this enables trainees to explore their capacity to perform different kinds of activities (e.g) Role Play. This develops the confidence and over all personality development of students.
Educational Computing
Use of Information Technology in Education improves the quality of learning. Trainee’s will be exposed to basic computing skills in preparing education related inputs using ‘Word’ ‘Excel’ ‘Power Point’ ‘Paint; Internet and e-mail, Trainees will be trained in project based approach in teaching using computers related skills.
Projects
Projects develop the process of reflective enquiry through classroom based research. They prepare the interns for reflective practices. Projects make learning an enjoyable experience. Small projects on misuse analysis, error analysis, Children’s outstanding of specific concepts, they will create teachers oriented towards probing into children’s learning process to improve class room process.
Internship
Each student-teacher will have an intensive practice in observation-cum-teaching in an identified Government / Aided School for a period of 48 days each year. Internship will be preceded by student-teacher preparation in the Teacher Training Institute.
Transaction Duration
The suggested time allocation for each Course is as follows. 3 hours per course per week will be allotted for taught courses and one hour per course per week for Practicum excluding practicals VIII, IX in the first year and XIII in the second year:
First Year
Course Title Time in Hours
Taught Courses
I The Learning Child 100
II Facilitating & Enhancing Learning-I 100
III Teaching of Tamil/Urdu/Malayalam/Telugu-I 100
IV Teaching of English-I 100
V Teaching of Mathematics-I 100
VI Teaching of Science-I 100
VII Teaching of Social Science-I 100
Practicum
VIII Observing Children and doing Case Study 20
IX School Visit 20
X Story Telling 40
XI Physical Education, Health Education & Yoga 40
XII Self- Development Workshop 40
XIII Teaching Learning Materials 40
Total .. 900
Second year
Course Title Time in Hours
I Indian Education System 100
II Facilitating & Enhancing Learning-II 100
III Teaching of Tamil / Urdu/Malayalam/Telugu-II 100
IV Teaching of English-II 100
V Teaching of Mathematics-II 100
VI Teaching of Science-II 100
VII Teaching of Social Science-II 100
Practicum
VIII Self- Development Workshop 40
IX Teaching Learning Materials 20
X Physical Education, Health Education & Yoga 40
XI Art Education & Work Experience 20
XII Educational Computing 40
XIII Projects 40
Total .. 900
Evaluation
There will be internal assessment as well as external examination in each year.
External Examination
External examination in the first seven taught Courses will be conducted by the Director of Government Examinations under the supervision of the Principal of the DIET of the District concerned utilizing the services of faculty members of DIET and TTls.
First Year
Course Title Marks
Taught Courses
I The Learning Child 100
II Facilitating & Enhancing Learning-I 100
III Teaching of Tamil/Urdu/Malayalam/Telugu-I 100
IV Teaching of English-I 100
V Teaching of Mathematics-I 100
VI Teaching of Science -I 100
VII Teaching of Social Science-I 100
Total .. 700
Second year
Course Title Marks
I Indian Education System 100
II Facilitating & Enhancing Learning-II 100
III Teaching of Tamil/Urdu/Malayalam/Telugu-II 100
IV Teaching of English-II 100
V Teaching of Mathematics-II 100
VI Teaching of Science-II 100
VII Teaching of Social Science-II 100
Total .. 700
Question Paper pattern for External Examination for
Taught Course I in the First Year
Part A | Short Answer Questions (about 100 words) no choice 8 questions will be from the Units in Part A ‘Child Development’ and 7 questions from the Units in Part B ‘Learning’. | 15X2 | 30 Marks |
Part B | Paragraph Answer Questions (about 200 words) 10 out of 12 6 questions will be from the Units in Part A “Child Development’ and 6 questions from the Units in Part B “Learning’. | 10X4 | 40 Marks |
Part C | Essay Question (about 500 words) 3 with internal choice First question will be from the Units in Part A ‘Child Development’ Second question will be from the Units in Part B ‘Learning’.Third question will be one from the Units of Part A ‘Child Development’ and the other from the Units of Part B ‘Learning’. | 3X10 | 30 Marks |
Total |
100 marks |
Question Paper pattern for External Examination for Taught Course-I in the Second year and Taught Course II in the both First and Second years
Part A |
Short Answer Questions (about 100 words) no choice |
15X2 |
30 Marks |
Part B |
Paragraph Answer Questions (about 200 words) 10 out of 12 |
10X4 |
40 Marks |
Part C |
Essay Questions (about 500 words) 3 with internal choice |
3X10 |
30 Marks |
Total |
100 Marks |
Question Paper pattern for External Examination
for Taught Courses III to VII in both the
First and Second years.
There will be two sections in these papers. Section A will test the content part of the syllabus and Section B, the Methodology Part
Section-A Content
Part A Short Answer Questions (100 words) no choice 10X2 20 marks
Part B Paragraph Answer Questions (200 words) 5 out of 8 5X4 20 marks
Section-B Methodology
Part A Short Answer Questions (about 100 words) no choice 10X2 20 marks
Part B Paragraph Answer Questions (200 words) 5 out of 8 5X4 20 marks
Part C Short Essay Questions (500 words) internal choice 2X10 20 Marks
Internal Assessment
Internal Assessment will be made under the following three heads.
a. Taught Courses
b. Practicum
c. Teaching Practice
Internal Assessment for Taught Courses
There will be continuous internal assessment for Taught Courses (I to VII)
Taught Courses I and II
Practicals suggested in the units .. 5
Subject-specific tasks other than suggested in the units .. 5
Test .. 5
Seminar .. 5
Review of Two books .. 5
Total .. 25
Taught Courses III to VII
Practicals suggested in the units .. 5
Subject-specific tasks other than suggested in the units .. 5
Test .. 5
Seminar 2 .. 5
Preparation of question banks containing all types of questions .. 5
(objective subjective) in each unit in the school syllabus and
one unit in the course syllabus
Total .. 25
First Year
Sl.No. Taught Courses Internal Assessment Marks
I The Learning Child 25
II Facilitating & Enhancing Learning-I 25
III Teaching of Tamil/Urdu/Malayalam/Telugu-I 25
IV Teaching of English-I 25
V Teaching of Mathematics-I 25
VI Teaching of Science-I 25
VII Teaching of Social Science-I 25
Total .. 175
Second Year
Sl.No. Taught Courses Internal Assessment Marks
I Indian Education System 25
II Facilitating & Enhancing Learning-II 25
III Teaching of Tamil/Urdu/Malayalam/Telugu-II 25
IV Teaching of English-II 25
V Teaching of Mathematics-II 25
VI Teaching of Science-II 25
VII Teaching of Social Science-II 25
Total .. 175
Internal Assessment for Practicum
The following practical subjects will be assessed for a maximum of the marks noted against each practical. Grade should be given for each practical.
First Year
Sl.No. Courses I Year
VIII Observing Children and doing Case Study 125
IX School Visit 100
X Story Telling 100
XI Physical Education, Health Education & Yoga 100
XII Self-Development Workshop 100
XIII Teaching Learning Materials 100
Total .. 625
Second Year
Sl.No. Courses I Year
VIII Self-Development Workshop 100
IX Teaching Learning Materials 75
X Physical Education, Health Education & Yoga 100
XI Art Education & Work Experience 75
XII Educational Computing 150
XIII Projects 125
Total .. 625
Internal Assessment for Teaching Competency:
Teaching practice in each subject will be assessed in each year as per the pattern given. The allotment of marks for teaching practice and observation in each subject will be as follows:
Details Marks
Teaching Practice in Schools 30
Teaching Practice in the Institute 20
Observation 10
Total .. 60
Grade should be given for each subject.
Grades for Internal Assessment
Internal assessment marks for Practical Courses and Teaching Competency should be converted into grades as follows:
Percentage of |
Maximum Marks |
Grade |
||||
Marks |
60 |
75 |
100 |
125 |
150 |
|
75 and above |
45 and above |
56 and above |
75 and above |
93 and above |
125 and above |
A
|
60-74 |
36-44 |
45-55 |
60-74 |
75-92 |
90-124 |
B |
50-59 |
30-35 |
37-44 |
50-59 |
62-74 |
75-89 |
C |
Below 50 |
Below 30 |
Below 37 |
Below 50 |
Below 62 |
Below 75 |
D |
Minimum for a pass is 50% in external examination as well as in internal assessment in papers I to VII and ‘C’ Grade for Practicum and teaching competency.
Those who fail in in the external examination should appear for the examination in the subsequent year in the month of May/June. Students who fail in the internal assessment should appear before the practical Board of Examiners in the subsequent years at DIET of the District concerned.