20. Report of Eighth Meeting

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

The eighth meeting of KUETEF was held at Government College of Teacher Education on Saturday, 24th April 2010. As the second and third week of April happened to be vacation for most teacher training colleges, intimation regarding the revised date was not sent by postal mail. Instead both the Treasurer Ms. Anila Chacko and the Secretary Mr. C. Praveen, intimated change of dates by telephone. Unfortunately some of the members could not be contacted owing to change in the telephone numbers they had given.

By 10 am fourteen members had assembled in the General Lecture Hall of Govt. CTE, Trivandrum. The meeting commenced with a silent prayer. The President of KUETEF, Dr. M.S. Geetha welcomed the members to the meeting and the proposed workshop on preparation of Model Diagnostic Test and Model Achievement Test. This was followed by presentation of the Report of the Seventh Meeting held at Karmela Rani Training College, Kollam by the Secretary of KUETEF, Mr. C. Praveen.


After that the President announced the agenda for the day, the Secretary presented the proposed plan and timeframe of activities for the day.

The activities commenced with the workshop on preparation of questions for the Diagnostic Test. The whole activity took hardly 90 minutes and while tea was served the Secretary presented the background to the changes initiated by the SCERT with regard to preparation of the SSLC Question Papers.

The members familiarized themselves with many types of Blue Prints and the ten Mental Processes identified for preparation of Question Papers. The SSLC Question Papers of March 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 was analyzed by the members to identify the representation of the ten Mental Processes. By then it was lunch time and the participants took a break. The host institution made arrangements for supplying lunch.

After lunch break, the participants working in groups, prepared a number of questions based on the ten Mental Processes which the Secretary assured would be made available in the Blog of KUETEF.

Paucity of time necessitated the postponement of the Doubt Clearing Session to the next meeting.

During the brief Business Session, it was decided to hold the next meeting on Saturday 7th August 2010. A few members felt that there is a need to familiarize with the nature, procedure and evaluation of Practicum given for trainees. Hence it was decided to include it in the agenda for the next meeting. To ensure that more members do participate in future meetings, the Secretary was directed to email the telephone numbers to all the members and to get them to contact their friends personally. The meeting concluded at 3.30 pm and before dispersing, the members formally thanked the Secretary for the smooth conduct of the day’s academic sessions.