Namdhari College Of Education

Course of the Study

A candidate shall be required to take following courses in B. Ed. Programme (through regular mode) :

2. Evaluation

The performance of a student in each course will be evaluated in terms of percentage of marks with a provision for conversion to grade points. Evaluation for each course shall be done by continuous comprehensive assessment by the concerned course teacher and ESE and will be consolidated at the end of the course. The evaluation system of the students has the following two components :-
i. Continuous Comprehensive Assessment (CCA) accounting for 20% of the total marks assigned to a particular course; and
ii. End-Semester Examination (ESE) accounting for the remaining 80% of the total marks assigned to a particular course.
i. Continuous Comprehensive Assessment (CCA) :
This would include the following components :

• • Classroom Attendance – Each student will have to attend a minimum of 80% Lectures / Tutorials / Practical’s. A student having less than 80% attendance will not be allowed to appear in the End Semester Examination (ESE).
• • However, the exemption from 80% attendance will be given to those participating in prescribed co-curricular activities (e.g. NCC, NSS, Youth Festivals, Sports etc.) to the extent of 20% (making the necessary attendance as 60% in these cases). The claim for this exemption should be supported by authenticated certificate from the concerned University/college authorities.
• • The students having attendance between 79% and 70% attendance will apply for exemption on a prescribed form accompanied by clear reason(s) for absence to the competent authority.
• • Those students getting the exemptions, except for those getting exemptions for co-curricular activities will not be entitled for getting the CCA marks for classroom attendance as given below.
• • Classroom Attendance Incentive: Those having greater than 80% attendance (for those participating in Co-curricular activities, 20% will be added to percent attendance) will be awarded CCA marks (in case of courses with a total of 100 marks) as follows :-

o > 80% but = 83% 1 marks
o > 84% but = 87% 2 marks
o >88% but = 91% 3 marks
o > 92% but = 95% 4 marks
o > 96% 5 marks
• The marks on the basis of attendance (in case of courses with a total of 50 marks) will be awarded as follows :
o > 80% but =86% 1 marks
o > 87% but =93% 2 marks
o > 94% 3 marks

The continuous comprehensive assessment (CCA) will have the following components :

Internship in Teaching / Practice Teaching (For Regular Candidates) :

• • The students are required to go through a school internship for five months (20 weeks) during two years in the schools under the supervision of a teacher educator of the institution concerned in which a particular student is studying.
• • The school internship of one month duration will be held in second semester. The school internship (practice teaching) of four months duration will be held in the third semester. Final examination of teaching practice / internship in teaching will take place in third semester after the completion of mandatory lessons i.e. 50 macro lessons in each of the teaching subject.
• • The school internship shall be of one month (4 weeks) duration during second semester of the course. These four weeks shall include an initial phase of one week meant for orientation of student-teachers about the school, its management structure, functioning and organization of co-curricular activities.
• • The second week of practice teaching will include study of maintenance of various school records (eg. CCE records, admission-withdrawal registers, attendance records, stock registers etc.). The student-teachers will prepare separate reports on school management, its functioning and maintenance of different records by both the school authorities. The third and fourth weeks will include observation of senior teachers of the school by the student teachers. The candidates will prepare twenty observation lessons (10 in each teaching subject) and get them verified from the concerned senior teacher. Feedback will be provided to the candidates on his/her performance by the school teachers and teacher educator of the institution concerned in which the student is studying.
• • During the third semester of the course, the practice teaching shall be of four months (16 weeks) duration. During these sixteen weeks, the candidates are required to deliver 100 lessons (50 in each teaching subject) under the supervision of the teacher educator of the institution concerned in which the student is studying. In addition, the student-teachers are required to observe 60 observation lessons (30 in each teaching subject) of their peer student-teachers in the concerned teaching subjects. If a candidate, who does not deliver mandatory number of lessons and any other activities related to teaching practice and practical work, he/she will not be allowed to appear in external assessment of practice teaching (i.e. final teaching practice examination). The macro / practice lessons will be supervised / assessed by the concerned teacher educator and feedback will be provided to the candidates on his/her performance by the school teacher and teacher educator of the institution concerned in which the student is studying.
• • For Final Teaching Practice, the candidate must prepare two lessons- one related to each of the teaching subject.
• • The Board of Examiners will consist of three external examiners. For this, the panel of examiners will be drawn by the Chairperson, Deptt. of Education and duly approved by the Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor of the University. The Board of Examiners will comprise of the experts in science and arts teaching subjects.

Micro Teaching Lessons and Simulated Teaching Lessons :

The students are required to deliver following number of lessons in their respective Teacher Education Colleges :

Note : The teaching skills for delivering micro lessons will be skill of chalkboard writing, stimulus variation, and reinforcement, questioning and explaining.