Practice teaching implemented at the time of pre-service teacher training programme play an instrumental role in preparing efficient, persuaded & skillful teaching professional who can strengthen as well prop-up the quality of elementary school education. Practice teaching being the practical aspect of the training programme is the heart and soul of the training programme. The present paper highlighted how the practice teaching is being carried out during the transaction of curriculum of pre-service teacher training programme at elementary level in Himachal Pradesh. It highlights the types of schools allotted for practice teaching; span/ duration of practice teaching; lesson plans practiced; observations carried out by the prospective teachers; mode of assessment of performance of prospective teachers during practice teaching. This investigation was carried out in 14 teacher education colleges and 4 DIETs selected randomly. The data collected were analyzed & interpreted by using frequency and percentages under descriptive statistics only. The findings revealed that, only government primary schools were allotted to conduct practice teaching. The span/ duration of practice teaching was ranging from 12 weeks to more than 18 weeks. The prospective teachers showed large variations in practicing the lessons ranging from 30-50 macro lesson per teaching subject. The number of lessons observed also showed variations ranging from 10-30 observations per teaching subject. Internal mode of examination was adopted to assess and evaluate the performance of prospective teacher. Based upon the findings, suggestions have been made for the improvement of practice teaching in the pre-service training programme at elementary level.
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