Ease Talk

Our college organized a session with Dr. Amar Fettle, Consultant Pediatrician at Health Services Kerala who is the current Nodal Officer of Public Health Emergency. It was a very engaging and effective session that addressed all our queries. 

Mr. Fettle's session was indeed very student friendly as within the first few minutes he freed us from all our inhibitions. Then on he detailed us on the first occurrence of corona in our state and the varied steps taken by the government to contain the situation. 

Doctor informed us on a lot of home medications that are effective and efficient in increasing immunity. He also briefed us on the indispensable importance of having healthy eating habits and regular exercise during this period. He answered several doubts raised by our classmates and concluded the session by reminding us on the significance of psychological support system.

Dr. Amar Fettle addressing us...

Vote of thanks... 

Prospects Broadened in 2 hours!

The department of Natural Science of Mar Theophilus Training College,Trivandrum organized an online workshop on E-content development & Digital Text Presentation on 21st July. The resource person was Dr. George Varghese, Assistant Professor in Education, Mount Tabor Training College, Pathanapuram, Kollam. 

Mr Varghese has several accolades to his credit. He has held positions like Member, Board of Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Kerala, Core Group Member, Restructuring All Kerala B.Ed. programme (2 years), Core Committee Member, Kerala University Curriculum Revision 2013, NAAC Re-accredidation Coordinator, Member, Panel of Peer Reviewers of International Journal Higher Education for the Future, Chairman University Examination and Practical Board, Chief Examiner, and External Examiner of B.Ed. Degree Practical Board. He is the College Nodal Officer of AISHE and RUSA. 

Mr. George held a two hour long session on the various platforms of e-content development that can be effectively put to use both by the student teachers and the teacher educators alike. In the current pandemic situation wherein the entire system of education has come to a standstill, the session opened or rather widened the horizon to innumerable prospects. More than a mere lecturing, Mr. Varghese literally engaged us while creating content on several online platforms. The session was undoubtedly the best we have participated so far. 

Importance of being Knowledgeable!

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free"

- Frederick Douglass

In commemoration of the contributions made by P.N Panicker in encouraging reading habits in Kerala, the country celebrates reading day on June 19th. Our college conducts several competitions every year to remind the budding teachers on their responsibility in enhancing reading skills of themselves as well as the future generation. This year even though the pandemic forbade us from getting together, we decided to do the same online. 

We had a Google Meet for reading day celebrations and it was a great experience. Two of our classmates MaryJaya and Meera were the anchors of the days activities. The chief guest for the day was P Bhaskaran Nair, Professor of ELT, Pondicherry University (retd.). He has guided several Ph.D publications and authored coursebooks in English. As of now he works as a free lance teacher educator. 

In addition, our college also conducted news reading competitions in English and Malayalam and and a quiz.

Inaugural session..

Address by Fr. Sony Sebastian CMI...

Address by our Chief guest...

A humble attempt on news reading...

Yeah I won the second prize!

Whole to Part!

In the course of these 5 months of lock down, we; the student teachers got to participate in a number of online quizzes to keep our skills sharp and updated. All the quizzes were quite comprehensive but primarily it adhered to specific areas of study. 

The Department of Physical Sciences of Marthoma Teachers' Training College, Ranni recently organized a national level quiz on Teaching Aptitude. It was one of a kind, as it incorporated all the psychological principles involved in teaching learning scenario to practical aspects of teaching. The questions made us ponder on our rationale before taking any decisions related to student-teacher interaction and most importantly classroom transaction. 

The quiz was not time bound, but the awarding of certificates was restricted to only those who scored 60% and above.

Web Conference on Addressing Ways of Implementation of B.Ed Curriculum in the COVID -19 Pandemic Scenario

The Sree Narayana Training College in collaboration with the Board of Studies in Education, University of Kerala and the Kerala University English Teacher Educators Forum (KUETEF) organized a web conference in three phases to gauge the impact of the pandemic on the B.Ed educational scenario, to brainstorm on the possibilities of implementing the curriculum and to implement the same so that the course effect and duration is not affected. 

The first two phases were held on 17th and 26th June respectively with the participants being the principal's of B.Ed colleges and subject conveners.

The last phase was held on 10th July with the conveners and the student representatives and union members of the B.Ed colleges. In the course of the meeting, we were updated on the university's plan on implementing the curriculum by giving due consideration to the concerns raised by the both the teacher community and the student community.