14. Report of Seventh Meeting of KUETEF

[Kerala University English Teacher Educator’s Forum - KUETEF]

The workshop cum seventh meeting of KUETEF was held at Karmela Rani Training College(KRTC), Kollam on 06 February 2010. Though 46 Lecturers of Teacher Education colleges were intimated by Post Card, only 17 members turned up for the workshop/meeting. A few members had earlier informed the Secretary, their inability to attend owing to other personal engagements.

The meeting (normal deliberations) commenced at a quarter past three in the afternoon. The Secretary of KUETEF, Mr. C. Praveen presented the Report of the Sixth meeting and also briefed the participants of the activities undertaken after the sixth meeting. The report was approved by the members.

Copies of the Teaching Manual based on the consensus arrived at during the sixth meeting, prepared by a member of KUETEF Ms. Anu Mukund was made available. Fr. Joseph, the Vice President of KUETEF arranged for the free xeroxing of the copies for the members who expressed a desire to have a copy of the Teaching Manual.

It was pointed out that although six demo of models were planned only four could be completed during the workshop. So it was decided to have the next two demos during the next meeting of KUETEF.

The academic discussion focused on the format and objective of the Diagnostic Test. The change in format of the Achievement Test, many participants felt, had to be given due attention. Accordingly it was decided to hold the eighth meeting of KUETEF on the third Saturday in April (17 .IV.2010) at Govt. CTE, Trivandrum to prepare model Diagnostic Test and model Achievement Test

The Secretary also mentioned that he had not yet received questions for clarification based on the BEd syllabus. So it was decided to collect questions from Teacher Educators prior to the eighth meeting by email and set aside one hour for discussion during the eighth meeting.

The meeting had to be concluded at 3.45PM to enable the members to attend the Valedictory function of the workshop.