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Report of III Prephase meeting of International Seminar (26 November, 2016)

REPORT OF THE III PRE-PHASE MEETING

Venue: Government College of Teacher Education, Thiruvananthapuram

Date: 26 November 2016

The third Pre-phase Meeting of the International Seminar was convened  on 26^thNovember 2016(Saturday)in GCTE at 10 ampresided over by Dr.C.P.Sreekantan Nair. The meeting commenced with a silent prayer followed by Welcome Address by the Principal. TheChairman read out the Agenda for the day’s meeting and subjected the same for approval by members present.

Agenda for the Meeting

1.    Presentation of the Report of the meeting held on 28^th October 2016.

2.    To equip the Sub-committees for the Seminar

3.    Updation of the Address list of CTE members

4.    Finalization of the format for the Certificates

5.    Any other matter as per the decision of the Chairman

The meeting was attended by the following members.

Dr.C.P.Sreekantan Nair

Prof.K.Jacob Mathew

Dr.B.H.Helen Joy

Dr.T.K. Mathew

Dr.Grace Annie Mathews

Dr.Bindu R.L

Dr.V.M.Sasikumar

Dr.JayaJaise

Dr.G.Valsala

Dr.Rajeshwari.K

Dr.T.Sundaresan Nair

Dr.C.Praveen

Prof.A.AbdulVahab

Dr.Sajith C. Raj

Dr.K.Anvar

Dr.GibyGeevarghese

Dr.S.Sulaiman

Mr.Pramod .D

Ms.HimaSreekantan

Mr.Harishkumar

Ms.Anila Chacko

Ms.NishaChandran

Ms.Asha Sindhu

Ms.Vidhya R.R

Ms.Anila V.S

Ms.Seemakarthikeyan

Ms.Helenhepsy R.C

Mr.JohnWalsakom.L.B

Prof.(Dr)V.Reghu,Dr.M.S.Geetha and Dr.Theresa Susan.A, Dr.B.Krishna Prasad and Dr.A.K.Raveendranath informed their inconvenience in attending the meeting.

MINUTES OF THE MEETING

Agenda 1 –Presentation of the Report of the Meeting held on 28^th October 2016

 The Co-ordinator of the Seminar Ms.NishaChandran read out the minutes of the meeting held on 28^th October 2016.

Agenda 2- To equip the Sub committees for the Seminar

Chairperson/Chairman and Convenors of various committees were read out by the Principal and the lists were handed over to each  group for finalising the tasks and the date  by which the task has to be completed. As per the general consensus , Documentation and Reporting have been clubbed together .

Agenda-3 –Updation of Addresses of CTE Members.

Many of the life members of CTE were either placed elsewhere or had change of address. Hence Principal requested members present to counter check the list and include changes on addresses of teachers known to them.

Agenda-4–Finalisation of the format for theCertificates.

The list of Awards/Honours instituted by CTE was read out by the Principal. Based on the general consensus, following changes were made:

·         The newly instituted Award instituted by Dr.G.Sarath Chandra Raj has been titled as the Best Innovative Paper Presenter Award.

·         Dr.T.K.Mathew, Principal Titus II Teachers’ College announced the decision to constitute a new award titled Teacher as a Social Engineer. The same when subjected to discussion, suggestions were put forward to rename the title as the Most Committed Teacher Educator  for Extension Work.

·         The Chairman suggestedthat  if possible Citation can be provided instead of  Certificates for all the awardees but it was decided to continue the existing practise for the time being and  if possible, citation can be provided for all awards from the next Annual Convention onwards.

·         It was reiterated that Ph. D Awardees to be given memento alone but has to ensure that all Awardees for the year must register for the Seminar.

·         Dr.Bindu R.L. remarked that the Cash Awardsand the Certificates for the various Honours would be provided by the CTE.

Agenda -5 -Any other matter as per the decision of the Chairman

·         It was decided to invite Governor to inaugurate the International Seminar and the Minister for Education to deliver the Keynote Address, if conditions work out conducively.

·         The suggestion regarding inviting the following dignitaries –Mr.T.P.Sreenivasan, Dr.D.Babu Paul, Dr.AlexanderJacob,Dr.AchuthSankar and Mr. Jayakumar IAS (Rtd)  based on the sub-themes of the Seminar were made by Prof.K. Jacob Mathew .

·         Jacob Mathew Sir who had taken up the initiative in setting up the brochure, briefed on the same for the benefit of the gathering.

·         The inclusion of State Resource Centre as a Collaborating Agency was announced by the Principal and their willingnessto sponsor lunch for a day was whole heartedly accepted with applause.

·         Early Bird Registration amount from those present was invited by the Chairman.

·         The following members extended their financial support by contributing the Registration Fee

ü  Dr.Grace Annie Mathews

ü  Dr.JayaJaise

ü  Dr.T.K.Mathew

ü  Dr.S.Sulaiman

ü  Dr.C.Praveen

ü  Ms. Anila Chacko

ü  Ms. Nisha Chandran

ü  Ms. Vidhya.R.R

ü  Ms. Asha Sindhu.S.S

ü  Ms. Seema Karthikeyan

ü  Ms.Anila.V.S   

ü  Ms.HelenHepsy .R.C

and the same was acknowledged with a temporary receipt provided by the College.

·         Reflecting the spirit of camaraderieamong the CTE members,Principal, Titus II Teachers College announced that the next Annual Convention of CTE will be hosted by them as part of their Jubilee Celebrations.

·         The meeting culminated with a sad note with Dr.V.M.Sasikumar announcing the untimely demise of Adv.Jayakumar (husband of Dr.A.R.Supriya’s,CTE Life member) and a minutes silence was observed by the members present.

·         The Seminar Co-ordinator Ms.NishaChandran thanked all the members for their presence and valuable suggestions for the International Seminar.

Dr.C.P. Sreekantan Nair

Chairman,  CTE- Kerala