Assessment of preservice teachers’ learning during internship

Internship for preservice teachers (PSTs) is significant in the acquisition of teaching competencies including lesson planning, presentation, technology integration and teaching learning material. Feedback from their teachers, mentors and peer group help them improve their abilities to tackle classroom related issues such as interest, attention, and response from the students. The present study attempts to compile the perceptions and teaching competencies of MEd students (PSTs) during their internship. Feedback form, reflections on internship record and a questionnaire are used to collect the responses about lesson planning, presentation, technology integration, perspectives and goals of internship. Preservice teachers possessed moderate level of technology integration, good perception of goals, teaching competencies and impression about internship. Thus, it can be concluded that PSTs need good orientation and extensive demonstration of the lessons during internship the way they are to handle the students and the lessons.