[Centenary Conference of Govt. College of Teacher Education, Trivandrum]
The Conference
The Conference is designed to create various opportunities for participants to question, discuss, learn and exchange experiences. There will also be introductory sessions on ways of adapting and responding to current educational practices to meet global changes/demands.
Conference Objectives:
•Familiarizing participants with issues regarding current trends in teacher education that aims at meeting global changes.
•Reassessing the range and scope of current educational practices to address changes in global standards.
•Creating a venue for proposing innovative solutions for practices which were implemented and found to be failures in the current teacher education programmes in the country.
Thrust Areas
The following have been identified as sub themes:
•Institutional leadership and changing realities
•Restructuring institutional programmes to meet changing environment
•Faculty development programmes for global needs
•Adapting curriculum to respond to the changing world
•Solutions through IT for teaching and learning
•Inclusive education
•Learning Management Systems
•Literacy Programmes
Types of Conference sessions
The conference has various types of presentations and meeting. They include:
• The inaugural session during which the key note address of the conference will be presented by an invited speaker.
•Plenary sessions, total four in number – one each for the forenoon and afternoon sessions of a duration of 60 minutes during which renowned educationists will be dealing with the Thrust areas of the conference.
•Panel Discussion on solutions for the changing realities vis-à-vis teacher education programmes in India
•Paper Presentation : Competition
Presentations of a duration of ten minutes by delegates to win the coveted Centenary Prize for the Best Paper presenter for each of the following category 1. Research-based 2.Innovative solutions
•Paper Presentation : Non-CompetitionPresentations of a duration of seven minutes by delegates
•Poster Sessions : Selected posters dealing with the conference theme will be displayed at the entrance of the Conference venue. The Poster presenters will make a three minute presentation highlighting key points from their poster.
•Media Displays : Presentations of Video, Internet, Film and other media.
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Dear Praveen Sir,
ReplyDeleteThe theme and subthemes sound well and are really thrust areas which needed to be focused by the stakeholders. Hope the conference will be meaningful and come out with real strategies and inputs to in corporate the changes in the coming time in teacher education.
Hope to participate with a paper. The same will be send to you at the earliest.
Best wishes for the sincere efforts.
Regards
Biju.K
Research Shcolar, RIE Mysore
bijukvr@gmail.com