B.Ed. Curriculum Revision Open House Held on 02.02.2013

A SMASHING KICK-OFF TO

KERALA UNIVERSITY B.Ed. CURRICULUM REVISION-2013

With a much enthusiastic and wider participation from Teacher Education Colleges under University of Kerala, the Board Of Studies (BOS) initiated B. Ed. curriculum revision process 2013 got an enchanting kick-off today at Thiruvananthapuram. The day long Brain-Storming Open House held at the Govt. College of Teacher Education at Thycadu, Thiruvananthapuram become a forum for critical introspection and creative suggestions to revamp the Teacher Education curriculum of the University with an aim to equip the future Student-Teachers on a competency based managerial cum pedagogical knowledge/functional architecture to suite with the challenging demands of the Twenty-First Century classrooms and society. A common feeling of the assembly is that Twenty First-Century Students Need Twenty-First Century Teachers and hence the Teacher Education process must usher itself into the status of dynamic professional practices freeing itself from the clutches of traditional approaches in Student-Teacher mentoring. 
The one day programme was sponsored by the Publication Wing of GCTE, Thiruvananthapuram. Dr. Theresa Susan, HOD, Department of Education, University of Kerala inaugurated the Open House. Prof. Mary Xavier, Principal, GCTE, Thiruvananthapuram served an introductory toast and Dr. G. R. Santhosh Kumar, Chairman, BOS presided over the sessions. 70 Teacher-Educators including members of the BOS, 05 Research Students and 10 M.Ed. Students participated in the discussion.
The recommendations of the august body will be collated by the B O S (Pass) to formulate the design of the Draft General Frame Work of the curriculum revision. As a follow-up to today’s deliberations a Core Committee Meet (CCM) will be held on 13^th February 2013 at Thiruvananthapuram.