[Kerala
University English
Teacher Educator’s Forum - KUETEF]
In
an article on Pre-service professional development,
Reynolds and Conroy wrote:
“The
“Ivory Tower” concept is prevalent in society and higher education is regularly
criticized for bloated beliefs involving an egotistical sense of superiority
and a matching lack of familiarity with practical, real-life issues. Likewise
teacher education courses are habitually criticized for being inauthentic
and/or failing to address the real issues that future teachers will
encounter...”
The
context obviously is American....but don’t you think it is relevant for our teacher education
programmes too?
Well...
another Practical Examination starts tomorrow. What should be our expectations? What will
we be actually looking for ? Its going to be a tough task... For the first time in Kerala
University, we will not be given the marks awarded for Internal Assessment. We
will be expected to evaluate the trainee based on class room teaching which we will be
observing for say, 15 to 20 minutes followed by
a face to face meeting in which
we ensure the trainee knows what is
expected to be known and then assess and
evaluate the work done by the trainee.
Please
share your experience as an examiner in the comments section of this blog or email your views to cpteach@rediffmail.com
With
warm regards
Dr.
C Praveen
Secretary,
KUETEF
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