Talk to Training College Students - WhatsApp - 03.10.2023

 St. Jacob's Training College

    Orientation Programme

       for the New Batch at 

        1.30 pm on 4.10.23

Inaugural-cum-Orientaton Talk

Orient: East

- the Sun rises in the east...

- 'the Wise men from the East' Mt 2:1

Orientation is all about the direction you're facing. A house can have an east-facing orientation. Freshman orientation starts you off in a good direction. Your political orientation means your political outlook.

- a short educational programme that prepares people for a new environment, such as a school or a company...

- You must already be familiar with the campus and the course.

- You are being trained here to become teachers...

- In the present situation, you are expected to deal with the UP School and above...

- Let me, hance introduce the UP students.

They are in the thresholds of adolescence or teenage after their childhood.

- Adolescence is the phase of life between childhood and adulthood, from ages 10 to 19. It is a unique stage of human development and an important time for laying the foundations of good health (and of course character too).

- Characteristics of Adolescence:

Rapid Growth and Biological Changes. Adolescents have many physical and emotional changes during this time. ...

- Appearance Consciousness. ...

- Sexual Attraction. ...

- Cognitive Development. ...

- Career Consciousness. ...

- Emotional Conditions. ...

- Flight on Imagination.

Mental health: Depression and anxiety are among the leading causes of illness and disability among adolescents, and suicide is among the leading causes of death in people aged 15–19 years. Half of all mental health disorders in adulthood start by age 14, but most cases are undetected and untreated.

Rights of adolescents: The rights of children (people under 18 years of age) to survive, grow and develop are enshrined in international legal documents. In 2013, the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which oversees the child rights convention, published guidelines on the right of children and adolescents to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, and a General Comment on realizing the rights of children during adolescence was published in 2016. It highlights states’ obligations to recognize the special health and development needs and rights of adolescents and young people.

The Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) also sets out the rights of women and girls to health and adequate health care.

India: The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, which represents the consequential legislation envisaged under Article 21-A, means that every child has a right to full time elementary education of satisfactory and equitable quality in a formal school which satisfies certain essential norms and ...

***Its a period of change and children must be fascinated to see the world by themselves...

- Parents give birth to children and bring them up...

- Then leave them to the care of teachers for education, the three 'R's...

- Here, they are given formal education and character formation...

- The school education, which you people would very much be part of, is going to have great impact on the lives of those boys/girls to determine their own future as well as that our nation...

- We have received enough from our teachers and the society at large... As such, we need to pay it back...

- Better ask, what we have done to our country, rather than what the country has done to us (JF Kennedy).

അധ്യാപക വിദ്യാഭ്യാസം അടിമുടിമാറും  കുറഞ്ഞ യോഗ്യത ബിരുദം, ഡി.എൽ.എഡ്., ബി.എഡ്. കോഴ്‌സുകൾ ഇല്ലാതാവും

       # പി.കെ. മണികണ്ഠൻ

02 October 2023, 02:00 am

തിരുവനന്തപുരം: പാഠ്യപദ്ധതി പരിഷ്കാരത്തിനു പുറമേ, സംസ്ഥാനത്തെ അധ്യാപക വിദ്യാഭ്യാസവും അടിമുടിമാറും. കേന്ദ്രനിർദേശം പാലിച്ച്, അധ്യാപകരാവാനുള്ള മിനിമംയോഗ്യത ബിരുദമാ ക്കും. അധ്യാപകബിരുദ പ്രവേശത്തിന് കേരളത്തി ൽ പ്രത്യേകം അഭിരുചിപ്പരീ ക്ഷയും ഏർപ്പെടുത്തും. അധ്യാപകവൃത്തിയിൽ താത്പര്യമുള്ളവരാണ് വരുന്നതെന്ന് ഉറപ്പാക്കാനാ ണിത്.

ഇപ്പോഴുള്ള ഡി.എൽ. എഡ്., ബി.എഡ്. കോഴ്സുകൾ ഒഴിവാക്കി സംയോജിതബിരുദം നടപ്പാക്കാനാണ് പദ്ധതി. ഇതിലേക്കുള്ള പ്രവേശന ത്തിനാണ് അഭിരുചി പരിശോധിക്കപ്പെടുക. ഇങ്ങനെയുള്ള ശുപാർശകളുമായി അധ്യാപകവിദ്യാഭ്യാസം സംബന്ധിച്ച റിപ്പോർട്ട് എസ്.സി.ഇ.ആർ.ടി. ഉടൻ സർക്കാരിനു സമർപ്പിക്കും.

അധ്യാപകബിരുദം നാലുവർഷ കോഴ്സാക്കി സംയോജിത അധ്യാപക വിദ്യാഭ്യാസപരിപാടി നടപ്പാക്കാനാണ് കേന്ദ്രനിർദേശം. സ്കൂൾ വിദ്യാഭ്യാസം 5+3+3+4 എന്ന ഘടനയിലാക്കണമെന്നും നിർദേശമുണ്ട്. കേന്ദ്രഘടന കേരളം സ്വീകരിച്ചിട്ടില്ല. അതിനാൽ, പ്രീ-സ്കൂൾമുതൽ ഹയർ സെക്കൻഡറിവരെ മൂന്നുവിഭാഗങ്ങളായി തിരിച്ചുള്ള അധ്യാപകബിരുദ കോഴ്സുകളാവും നടപ്പാക്കുക. പ്രത്യേക അഭിരുചിപ്പരീക്ഷ നടത്തി കോഴ്സുകളിൽ പ്രവേശനംനടത്തും

Reflections on Eucharisht - Whats App 02.10.2023

Good morning. To my limited understanding, Jesus never ever instituted anything. That's why the first group of disciples were called 'the way' (Acts 9:2). It was this group Saul set out to persecute. And it was the same group Jesus identified himself with (9:5)! Even the resurrection was an experience of a woman who loved him and loved by him. That was even challenged by one of them. The Eucharist/Mass over which such a lot of hell is made out of was a memorial after the Passover which was asked to be observed as an ordinance throughout generations for ever (Ex 12:14). Whereas Saul turned into Paul in 1Corinthians says, "Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." (11:25). Among the synoptic gospels Luke alone has "Do this in remembrance of me.” (Lk 22:19 and 1 Cor 11:24). The rites, rather rituals employed, whether Syrian or Latin, whether of the Synod or the seemingly majority priests of the Ernakulam - Ankamaly archdiocese are all of much later origin. And to dispute over it is unbecoming of Jesus' disciples. Obedience is to the gospel values, rather Kingdom values and not to any edict, even of any synod. What matters is Jesus' memory. And it was one of the elders who presided over this memorial. Even the bishops and priests came still later... What wrong all of a sudden came to the liturgy celebrated for the past five decades or so! Do we understand Jesus' saying,"the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him." Jn 4:23.

Nostagic moments...

 

Family...

 

Amma still with us...

 

"I Was There In The Room" Eve Ensler

 776: I Was There In The Room

"I Was There In The Room"

- Eve Ensler

I was there when her vagina opened.

We were all there her mother, her husband and I,

and the nurse from the Ukraine with her whole hand

up there in her vagina feeling and turning with her rubber

glove as she talked casually to us--like she was turning on a loaded faucet.

I was there in the room when the contractions

made her crawl on all fours,

made unfamiliar moans leak out of her pores

and still there after hours when she just screamed suddenly

wild, her arms striking at the electric air.

I was there when her vagina changed

from a shy sexual hole

to an archeological tunnel, a sacred vessel,

a Venetian canal, a deep well with a tiny stuck child inside,

waiting to be rescued.

I saw the colors of her vagina. They changed.

Saw the bruised broken blue

the blistering tomato red

the gray pink-the dark;

saw the blood like perspiration along the edges

saw the yellow, white liquid, the shit, the clots

pushing out all the holes, pushing harder and harder,

saw through the hole, the baby's head

scratches of black hair, saw it just there behind

the bone--a hard round memory,

as the nurse from the Ukraine kept turning and turning

her slippery hand.

I was there when each of us, her mother and I,

held a leg and spread her wide pushing

with all our strength against her pushing

and her husband sternly counting, "One, two, three,"

telling her to focus, harder.

We looked into her then.

We couldn't get our eyes out of that place.

We forget the vagina

what else would explain

our lack of awe, our lack of wonder.

I was there when the doctor

reached in with Alice in Wonderland spoons

and there as her vagina became a wide operatic mouth

singing with all its strength;

first the little head, then the gray flopping arm, then the fast swimming body, swimming quickly into our weeping arms.

I was there later when I just turned and faced her vagina.

I stood and let myself see her all spread, completely exposed

mutilated, swollen and torn,

bleeding all over the doctor's hands

who was calmly sewing her there.

I stood and her vagina suddenly

became a wide red pulsing heart.

The heart is capable of sacrifice.

So is the vagina.

The heart is able to forgive and repair.

It can change its shape to let us in.

It can expand to let us out.

So can the vagina.

It can ache for us and stretch for us, die for us

and bleed and bleed us into this difficult, wondrous world.

I was there in the room.

I remember.

[from 'the vagina monologues'...]

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Jesus of the gospels and me, a disciple or ....

Am Pankiras, son of late Mr. Arulappan and Mrs. Lenamma of Erayumanthurai, born on 28th January 1955 (10.05.1955), a 'priest', a title, am ill at ease with, since 22nd December 1980. 

The name: Since my entry in the seminary in 1971, i was called Pancretius, a Latinized form of the name in Tamil. In English it is Pancras in whose name there is a famous railway station in London as well as a muncipality in which V.K.Krishnamenon St Pancras Borough Councillor 1934 - 1947, besides the novel 'Fabiola' by English Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman depicting a number of martyrdom accounts and legends of real-life Christian saints like Agnes, Sebastian, Pancras (Pancratius) among others into the fictitious story.