[Kerala University English Teacher
Educator’s Forum - KUETEF]
The following news item appeared in the Sunday Times of
India 29 September 2013
A month
ago, a teacher educator, approached
me inquiring how to prepare a
Blue Print for a Question Paper
by including the Mental Process. I was a bit taken aback. The teacher educator had already supervised two batches of BEd. trainees and was now teaching the third
Batch! It was then that I realized that this teacher educator had undergone a
MEd Course in a college in the city, where
the subject of specialization, Language Education is not taught by teachers with a Language background but by
teachers with a Science background!! The
same is true of Malayalam too-a language, much to the pride of Malayalees was recently granted classical
status is also taught by teachers, not
with a background in Language Education,
but with a background in Science Education!
Well,
the new DPI has taken
the bull by its horn. How can we
expect anyone ever to come down on the Teacher Education system in the State where for three long
years teachers with a
Science or Mathematics background had
been teaching without any intervention, Language
Education at the Post Graduate level in Teacher Training Colleges...
So...
shouldn’t we commence
the Workshop with
an Orientation Programme in
ELT Methodology for the newly recruited English Teacher Educators?
Dr.C. Praveen
Secretary, KUETEF
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