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From Meera Suresh's Desk

ATE classes for P.G in Multiple disabilities and Inclusive Education are going on smoothly. Attendance is almost full on most days. Full attendance can be seen on Soft Skill Training classes also. We have started the weekend classes for Inclusive Education and 11 candidates have been admitted for the same. The target of 10 candidates suggested by TMF has been achieved. We have admitted 4 candidates who are out station, in the Distance Education Mode for the weekend batch.

The answer paper for the Soft Skills test on the topic "Empathy" and a movie "Children of Heaven" was distributed and all the candidates had scored good marks. Lots of fun and Laughter with paper checking, total checking and comparison of answers. They have shared the usefulness of the test and have given the feedback which are very much positive. We had a full attendance for the same.

The next session has been taken on "Critical Thinking". Test will follow next month. Annamalai University has informed us that the Mark sheets of Batch-2 are ready. We will be planning the Valedictory function soon for the Batch 2 candidates after collecting the mark sheets from the University.

On a special request we have sent 4 Boxes of adult and children diapers to a special school, Nirmal Jyoti, at Wayanad on the request of Mr. Sunil who was in Kerala. Our ATE candidate Abhisekh Panikkar took the onus to hand it over to them in person on my request because we wanted it to reach the right hands.

Teacher's Day was celebrated by the ATE students to honour the faculty members handling their classes. It was a lovely day with many games and activities followed by snacks. They handed over a memento and a chart with their feeling for the Faculty Member written by the candidates and also read in the class.

Internal Assessment Tests for the Batch 3 and Batch 4 was conducted on 4 days starting 25th September to 28th September. Seating Arrangements were made in three different rooms on the third floor. We had a turnout of 40 candidates out of the expected 55 candidates, who could not attend due to various reasons. It was a bit tedious to organize question papers for Batch 3 (50 marks) on three courses and Batch-4 (30 marks) for two courses. But thankfully all the examinations went off smoothly.

We have started guiding the Candidates who will be giving their examinations in the month of December 2018 on OJT and Case Study preparation.