ELIGIBILITY FOR ADMISSION

Diploma in Teacher Education Two Years Course

SC/ST Applicants should have passed the Higher Secondary (Plus 2) Examination of the State Board or possess other equivalent qualification which conforms to the norms set by NCTE/State Govt. Others should have passed the Higher Secondary Examination with at least 45% marks, or other equivalent examinations with the same required miimum. An applicant should have completed 17 years of age ans should not be more than 30 years as on July 31st of an year. A relaxation of five years will be made in the case of SC/ST candidates, and physically disabled. Widows and orphans will be admitted up to 40 years of age as on July 31st of an year.

TAUGHT COURSES AND PRACTICUM

First Year ( Taught Courses )

  • THE LEARNING CHILD
  • TEACHING OF ENGLISH I
  • TEACHING OF SCIENCE I
  • FACILITATING AND ENHANCING LEARNING I
  • TEACHING OF TAMIL I
  • TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS I
  • TEACHING OF SOCIAL SCIENCE I

    • First Year ( Practicum )

  • OBSERVING CHILDREN AND DOING CASE STUDY
  • SCHOOL VISIT
  • SELF DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
  • PHYSICAL EDUCATION, HEALTH EDUCATION AND YOGA.
  • STORY TELLING

    • Second Year ( Taught Courses )

  • INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM
  • TEACHING OF ENGLISH II
  • TEACHING OF SCIENCE II
  • FACILITATING AND ENHANCING LEARNING II
  • TEACHING OF TAMIL II
  • TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS II
  • TEACHING OF SOCIAL SCIENCE II

    • Second Year ( Practicum )

  • SELF DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
  • ART EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE
  • PHYSICAL EDUCATION, HEALTH EDUCATION AND YOGA.
  • EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING
  • TEACHING LEARNING MATERIALS STORY TELLING

    • 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.