09 Report of KUETEF Meeting held on 1 February 2014

The first meeting of the KUETEF members in the year 2014 was held in SN Training College Nedunganda, Varkala on Saturday 1^st of this month. 20 teacher educators attended the meeting which commenced at 10.30. Dr. Reetha Ravi, Senior Faculty of SN college was cordial in welcoming all the members and making all the necessary arrangements.

An informal interaction followed, making suggestions in modifying the Lesson Plan keeping in line with the recommendations in the new Curriculum. The members arrived at the following consensus with regard to the changes in Lesson Plan.

·        ‘Lesson Plan’ _  not lesson template or teaching manual- will be used.

·        Issue and/or  sub issue (Theme) will be noted down along with the prelims at the top.

·        Content Analysis should be written before writing the Curricular statements. (linguistic and literary elements are to be briefed)

·        Curricular statements  (not objectives)are to be followed with a learner-centered approach.  Eg: The learner reads and analyses…..

·        Pre-requisites are to be mentioned next followed by Teaching Learning Resources.

·        References can be written as the last item of preliminary information.

·        First column in the Lesson Plan will be titled as Classroom Interaction Procedure and second column as Expected Pupil Responses/ Assessment

·        While writing discussion LPs and for practical and theory examinations trainees need to write the expected responses.

·        During Criticism lessons and Practice Teaching the trainee will enter the assessment / actual response in the second column after the class.

Members shared some concern with regard to some models of teaching introduced in the syllabus like Role-play, Direct Instructional and Synetics models. Some theoretical inputs and illustration was given by Mr. E K  Jijan on Synetics Model. The members were assured of conducting a One-day workshop focusing on the Demonstration of 5 Models prescribed in the syllabus NSS Training College, Pandalam and share the recorded video for those who fail to attend. Dr, Mini P Senior Faculty member of KUETEF offered with kindness to take the initiative. The proposed date is 18^th  or 19^th February.

A power-point presentation on the teaching skills and their components along with Micro Lesson Plan and Observation schedules was done by Mr JIJAN. Video of its practicing session in Mount Tabor Training College was also shown.

Other Decisions taken

Ø Practicum ….. for the pedagogy…. it is recommended to give problem based study, again, that depends….

Ø For the second semester, both the practicums should be problem based studies, as the trainees get sufficient time to collect data during practice teaching session.

Ø For initiatory school experience, 15marks for teaching and 5 for diary….. that also depends….. 14 as the top   and 10 as the bottom line, again changes can be made adequately.

Ø  As envisaged by Dr. Praveen Sir, KUETEF Secretary Mr. Jijan proposed the idea of  launching a website of KUETEF for the kind consideration of honourable members.  In order to meet the expenses at a minimum level, all the members expressed their readiness in sharing 250 rupees towards this venture. 

After a sumptuous lunch and photo session with respectable Principal of the college Dr. Ushakumari K, we called it day and made a move. Dr. Reetha Ravi with her colleagues deserves a Special thanks. Due to inevitable reasons KUETEF Vice President Rev Fr. Joseph John and Treasurer Dr. Anila Chacko couldn’t turn up, but both of them had extended their support for the meeting. 
The following teacher educators have attended the meeting.

Dr. Mini p

Ms. Annie K Oommen

Dr. Reetha Ravi

Ms. Soosan George

Ms. Rani G J

Ms. Raji V R

Ms Nitha S

Ms. Vijusha V

Ms. Asha A K

Ms. Sangeetha K

Mr. Prasanth R

Ms. Ambili R

Mr. Baburaj G

Ms. Durga Lekshmi G S

Ms. Meera R S

Ms. Anamika

Ms. Dhanya Kumar

Adv. V L Lijin

Mr. Anoop Rajmohan

 

with warm regards

 E K JIJAN

 KUETEF Secretary