Awards Instituted by CTE Kerala in 2011

K. M. Jacob & Mary Jacob Ever Rolling Trophy for Student - Teachers

First Rank Holder of B.Ed. Course, University of Kerala, will be honoured with K.M. Jacob & Mary Jacob Memorial Ever Rolling Trophy  sponsored by Prof. K. Jacob Mathew, Former Member Syndicate, University of Kerala; and Former Principal, Govt. College of Teacher Education, as a tribute to his beloved parents. The Ever-Rolling Trophy will be given to the institution where the Rank Holder has studied and the Student- Teacher will be presented with a memento and certificate. The first award will be given to the student(s) who score the first rank for B.Ed. course – Kerala University in the academic year 2010-’11.

Dr. P. K. Sudheesh Kumar Memorial award for Best paper on ‘Innovations/ Advancements in Education’

‘Award for Best paper on ‘Innovations/ Advancements in Education’ is instituted by CTE Kerala in memorial of Dr.P.K. Sudheesh Kumar who was Reader in the Department of Education, University of Calicut, Kerala. This award, sponsored by Dr. C. M. Bindhu, (w/o Late Dr. P. K. Sudheesh Kumar) Associate Professor, Farook Training College, Calicut intends to motivate teacher educators and to foster creativity and sense of innovative spirit among them. The award consists of a Cash of Rs. 1000/-, memento and a certificate.

This award is open to all the participants who present paper in the Annual Conventions/ Conferences organized by CTE Kerala. The awardee is selected from among the papers accepted for presentation in CTE conference/ convention on the basis of criteria developed by CTE.

Dr. P. K. Sudheesh Kumar was the Reader in the Department of Education, University of Calicut, Kerala. As a dedicated teacher and researcher in education and psychology, he had 16 years of teaching and research experience in the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and he had produced 6 Ph.D works. Being a double Ph.D. holder, both in Education and Psychology, he had substantial amount of research outputs. He was the recipient of two National Awards.  He had authored several books. A few among them are ‘Instructional Learning Strategies and Cognitive Entry Behaviour: An Experimental Analysis’, ‘Jigsaw Process in Education’, ‘How Pupils Learn? - Theory Research and Practice’, ‘Social Studies in the Classroom- Trends & Methods’ and ‘Psychology in the Classroom - Theories into Practice’.