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Govt. Cte, Trivandrum : Annual Report 2008-09

On 31 March 2010 classes ended for the First Semester BEd. Degree course (2009-2010) offered by the Government College of Teacher Education, Trivandrum, Kerala State, South India. But till date,  the College Annual Report of the previous batch  which was  to be  presented during the College Day held in October 2009, has not been  published. This is an attempt by  the co-ordinator of the English Association of the college  to make available the Annual Report 2009-10. Obviously, there  may be a few discrepancies and those really interested in getting the complete and accurate information may contact the college authorities.

The Government College of Teacher Education is one of the oldest teacher training institutions  in the country. Next year we will be celebrating one hundred years of its ‘illustrious' existence. The BEd.  trainees, the MEd.  students, the Research scholars, the faculty and the non-teaching staff have all played their respective roles and have immensely contributed to the smooth execution of programmes planned and organized  for the academic year. It is a great privilege for the Principal  to  head a team of highly resourceful teachers and  talented students who gain admission to the college through merit.

Launch of a new Optional subject

During the academic year, the college received the sanction to conduct a BEd course in  Commerce. The course was inaugurated by the Hon. Minister for Education, Sri M.A.Baby. However it was not possible to get student admission this year. It is hoped that a full fledged course will commence  next year.

The new batch arrives

Within a month of the BEd. Degree Examination 2007-08, admission to the 2008-09 batch commenced in November 2008 and classes started for the new batch on 17 November 2008.

 The College Union

Following  a democratically conducted election, members of the College Union assumed office after an Oath Taking Ceremony. The activities of the  College Union was inaugurated in March 2009. The College Union worked hand-in hand with the college authorities  in organizing various programmes in the college. The Union activities concluded with the College Day and Arts Day celebrations.

Academic Programmes

1) School Visit Programme

 Prior to the commencement of  the Two-Spell Practice Teaching programme, trainees visit the schools they have chosen for Practice Teaching. This academic  year the trainees visited select schools in December 2008. This was immediately followed by a combined Reflection Session of all the trainees during which the trainees got an opportunity to share their experience of their school visit programme.

 2) Discussion, Demonstration and Criticism Classes

The teacher educators of the college guided the trainees in preparing Lesson Plans. The  discussion sessions leading to the  writing of lesson plans, the demonstration classes by the teacher educators and experts and the Criticism classes  by the trainees proved to be extremely useful.

 3) Practice Teaching

An academic programme which  is at the heart of the whole BEd programme is Practice Teaching. To ensure that trainees receive proper supervision while they are away from the college, a meeting was arranged with the teacher educators of our college and Headmasters of the Practicing schools in 01 Dec 2008.

 3.1 First Spell of Practice Teaching

The first spell of Practice Teaching was successfully completed in January 2009 and was immediately followed by a Reflection session.

 3.2 Second Spell of Practice Teaching

The second spell of Practice Teaching was held during July. For the trainees it was a rare opportunity to  face a fresh batch of students and improve their teaching ability. Reflection of the experiences gained was done on 22 July 2009.

 Enrichment Programmes

1) Thought for the day

In tune with the college tradition of fostering an objective mind in the trainees, this year too the classes commenced each day with an assembly during which each trainee is given a chance to present/respond to a thought related  to a social/cultural/ educational issue. The Principal inaugurated the ‘Thought for the day' programme on 18 Nov 2008 by presenting  a thought related to education.

 2) Seminars & Conferences

In  an attempt to update current ideas and trends in education, a series of seminars, conferences and workshops were organized. Though the prime beneficiaries were the students and faculty of the college, a number of local teachers too were invited to the seminars/conferences. Seminars related to issues in curriculum transaction drew a large audience.

 On 15 Nov 2008, a State Level Seminar on Critical pedagogy and Issue-based curriculum was held in the college. The seminar helped the participants clarify several doubts relating to the newly introduced curriculum.

 A one-day Medical seminar on Community Health Volunteering and Medical charity was organized on 03 August 2009. The main Resource Persons were Dr. Jimmy M.L. and Dr. Ranji Mathew.

 3) Workshops

A workshop on preparation of Lesson Plans was organized in the college under the auspices of the Kerala University English Teacher Educator's Forum (KUETEF) in November 2008.

A creative workshop for preparation of Lesson Plans was organized  in January 2009.

Workshops for the preparation of teaching aids was held  separately in each optional class.

4) Guest Lecture/Talk

Several Guest lectures and talks were given by eminent scholars in the college this academic year. These include:

• On Gandhian Philosophy by Dr. Ramdas and Dr. Sukumaran


• On Value Oriented Education by Sri Padmanabhan


• Guest talk by a teacher of the Kerala Hindi Prachar Sabha in Feb 2009


• Voyage to the World of Small Wonders, a talk by Dr. Kunjikrishnan


• Talk on Expanding Horizons in Science by Dr. C.P.Aravindakshan


• Guest Talk on various Education Commissions


• Guest Talk on Action Research


• Guest Talk on Effective Communication by Ms. Asha


• Special Lecture by Prof. Ram Takwale


• Guest Talk on Models of Teaching


• Guest Talk on Issue-based curriculum by Dr. Thilak


• Guest Talk on Environmental Education


• Guest Talk on Problems of Adoloscents by Dr. M.K.C. Nair


• Guest Talk on Healthy India by Mr. Doddamani


• Guest talk on How to Entertain, Educate and Enlighten Students by Dr. Venugopal Rediar


• Guest Talk on Gandhi and Gandhian Way of Life by Sri Gopinathan Nair, Sri V.Sukumaran and Sri. Murukumpuzha Rajendran

5) Participation in  competitions

Though the prime focus in the college is on nurturing teaching skills,  we provide plenty of opportunity for the trainees to develop their literary skills. Teacher educators are assigned charge of literary programmes and days are set aside for Arts and Literary activities which prepare trainees to participate in competitions held outside the college.

 To select a team to represent the college for elocution, a competition was held in the college in November 2008. Cultural and literary competitions for the trainees of the college was held in February 2009.

 6)  Socially Useful Productive Work (SUPW)

Activities aimed at familiarizing trainees with the production of cost effective and useful materials were held. These include :

• Soap making and lotion making, both eco-friendly products made using low cost materials.


• Agarbathi making


• Fabric Painting


• Eco-friendly bags

 7) Association Activities

Several Associations function in the college for which the faculty of the college act as coordinators. The  association activities for the academic year was inaugurated in  December 2008.

7.1) English Association

The Association had for its objective the organization of activities aimed at developing the linguistic competence of trainees and to evoke an interest in the English language. The programmes organized by the English Association included:

• Better English : Every alternate day, during the college assembly, the trainees introduced a new word for the benefit of all the trainees of the college.


• Preparation of Video and Radio Lesson. The video-based lesson, won a prize at the Innovative Prizes competition organized by S.N.Training College, Nedunganda.


• Staging  of  two acts of  an English Play.


• A Methodology Media Fest in which the trainees of the St. Thomas Training College Mukollakal were  special invitees.


• Publication of a trainee-edited Magazine entitled Transcend
  


• Maintenance of a Bulletin Board on ELT/ Education


• Viewing of Multi-media programes on Methods/Models of Teaching and Thinking Skills.


• Viewing -cum- discussion of  acclaimed films such as My Fair Lady and Dead Poet's Society.


• An optional tour to Vizhinjam and Kovalam

The  trainees of the English optional of this academic year have also achieved the rare distinction of being the first batch of students of this college  to publish together  their write-up on ‘Qualities To Be Nurtured In School Children', online and gain a global audience. Their publication can be accessed at http://cpstudent.blogspot.com/

After assessing the work done by all the associations, the English Association was awarded the Best Association Award by the Principal.

7.2) Geography Association

Several activities were organized by the Geography Association. These include a seminar in December 2008 and a Quiz competition aimed at knowledge-enrichment for all the optional trainees. 

7.3) Sanskrit Association

 The trainees  of the Sanskrit optional offered to introduce a word of Sanskrit every alternate day during the College Assembly under their ‘Saral Sanskrit' programme which they launched in January 2009. Under the auspices of the Association, Sanskrit Day Celebrations and Vande Matharam recital competition was held in August 2009.

 7.4) Natural Science Association

A Quiz programme aimed at knowledge enrichment of the trainees was conducted under the auspices of the Natural Science Association and the Eco Club in February 2009.They also conducted an  exhibition in October 2009.

 7.5) Physical Science Association

The students of Physical Science conducted a survey on environmental awareness. They also organized a Quiz competition and an exhibition.

 7.6) Mathematics Association

A Guest talk was arranged for the trainees of the Mathematics optional in June 2009. An exhibition was conducted in October 2009.

8 ) Special Programmes

8.1  A Career Guidance Progaramme was organized by the college in February 2009.

8.2  Christmas and Id Celebration

To develop communal harmony among  the trainees and spread the message of love, peace and goodwill, Christmas and Id  were celebrated in Dec 2008. Religious leaders from three religions were invited to address the trainees. Everyone present also had a bite of the Christmas cake.

8.3 Presentation of a Documentary

8.4 Platinum-Jubilee Inter-Training College Debate Competition

8.5 Programme to honour IAS topper, Ms. Mithra an alumni of the college.

8.5 Merit Day on which the university rank holders of all the optional subjects were honoured

8.6. Platinum-Jubilee Inter-Training College Quiz competition

8.7 Cleaning Day

Trainees were put in groups and they dusted, cleaned and mopped the floors of classrooms and laboratories on 14 Aug 2009.

8.8. Independence Day Celebration

After flag hoisting and competitions on singing the National Anthem, the college union organized a guest talk by the veteran freedom fighter Sri K.E. Maman

8.9. A field trip to collect relevant data

8.10 Onam Celebration

An unique feature of this year's celebration was the participation of trainees  in the preparation of the dishes for the Onam Feast.

8.11. Life Guidance Programme

8.12. Community visit by trainees to  Mental Health Centre and Poor Home 

9) Trainee participation  in Discussions in  the Visual Media

The trainees of the college were invited by local television channels  to participate/express their view in discussions. A few programmes in which  the trainees participated include :

Akathalam : Asianet  TV and Crossfire : Kairali TV

10) Club activities

 In addition to association programmes which are basically optional–based, several clubs function in the college. Membership  to such Clubs  are purely voluntary and members get the privilege of participating in programmes specially organized for them. Dr. C.P. Aravindakshan and Sri Sasikumar inaugurated the Science Club, Eco Club, Tourism Club, Women's Club and Film Club on 18.Dec 2008.

 10.1 Science Club

A number of trainees participated in the Poster competition organized by the Science Club. A Science exhibition was organized in March 2009.The club in association with the Kerala State Shastra Bhavan organized an Inter-Collegiate Quiz Competition in March 2009. It also celebrated World Environmental Day on  05 June 2009.

 10.2 Film Club

Activities of the Film Club included, talks related to Film Grammar and sessions on script writing. The screening of the short award winning   film, Moonamathe Soochi and  a discussion session with the director of the film, Mr. Kanaka Raghavan in March 2009 was the main highlight of the activities of the Club. A week long Film Festival was also organized by the club in October 2009.

 10.3 Women's Club

Ms. Sonia George a well known social worker inaugurated the Women's Day celebration in March 2009. As part of the club activities, Hon. Justice Sreedevi, the Chairperson of the Vanitha Commission addressed the trainees of  the college .

10.4. Eco Club

A notable programme organized by the club was a talk on Environment and Sustainable Development.

11. Excursion cum Study Tour

The trainees of the college visited Hyderabad as part of the excursion-cum- Study Tour.

MEd  Programme

Though only six seats were sanctioned for the MEd. Course this academic year, all  of them successfully completed their dissertation and submitted it in Jan 2009.

 Evaluation

To ensure that trainees do study regularly and prepare themselves for the Semester-end examination, class tests were held in January 2009.The First Semester Model Examination of the BEd trainees and the MEd students were held in March 2009.

The first semester BEd degree examination and the MEd final examination was held in April 2009. The college was the venue for the Centralized valuation camp  of the University of Kerala during the Summer vacation.

The trainees submitted two Practicums  each   for all the ten prescribed papers. In addition  several projects were also submitted for assessment. Practical examinations were held in September for all the trainees. Second Semester Model Examination was held in October 2009.

 Publication

The college publishes the GCTE Journal of Research and Extension. The first issue of Volume 4 was released in January 2009. The second issue of the journal was released in June 2009. The journal recently received the recognition of   Kerala University, Gandhi University, Kannur University and Calicut University.

Prizes won by the trainees

• Champions for the Inter-training College Sports Meet


• Best Debator and Best Debating Team for the Platinum Jubilee Inter-Training College Debate competition.

The staff and students of the college would like to congratulate the winners of all the competitions for which they represented  Govt. CTE,  and   brought glory to the college.

The Parent Teacher's Association (PTA)

To ensure that the trainees do rise to their parental expectation, the PTA meetings are held regularly. The first PTA meeting was held on 01 December 2008 during which an Executive committee was formed.

 Meetings of KUETEF and CTE

The college was a regular venue for the meetings of the Kerala University Teacher Educators Forum (KUETEF) and the Kerala Chapter of the Council of Teacher Educators (CTE). Both are non-political organizations and  during meetings issues related to Teacher Education  and the nuances of the Curricular reforms are discussed .

  Summing up

The curtain fell on the various activities and academic programmes with the College Day and College Social. The present batch of students were  well disciplined and highly talented. There is no doubt that the BEd. programme and the MEd. Programme will  ever remain  a memorable experience for all the students.

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