Age and Date of Birth : 45 years, 31, July 1961
 Sex : Female
 Marital Status : Married with a girl child
 Residential Address : Baith Shalom, Manaveli, Thirupuram 695 133
 (Phone 0471-2260148)
 email : helenjmanickam@yahoo.com
 Official Address : Principal, Government College of Teacher Education,
 Thalassery – 670 101
 Ph. No. Mob. No. 9447009032
 0490-2320227
 Experience : 23 August, 1990 – 6 June, 1994 Lecturer in Physical
 Science, Govt. Training College, Thalassery
 7 June, 1994 – 8 May 2007 Lecturer in Physical
 Science, Govt. College of Teacher Education,
 Thiruvananthapuram.
 9 May 2007 – till date Principal, Govt. College of
 Teacher Education, Thalassery.

• Teaching B.Ed. Trainees
• Teaching M.Ed. Students
• Supervising Thesis work of M.Ed. students.
• Conducting refresher courses for high school teachers
• Member, Board of Studies (P.G.), University of Kerala
• Internal and External Examiner, University of Kerala.
• Member, Evaluation Board, Mahathma Gandhi University
• Text Book Preparation, SCERT, Kerala
• Member, Evaluation Committee, Pareeksha Bhavan, Kerala
• Question Paper Setter, Kerala Public Service Commission
• Member, Interview Board, Kerala Public Service Commission
• Research Guide in Education, MK University
• Resource Person, IMG, Thiruvananthapuram
• Governing Board Member, CSI College of Education, Parassala
• Member, Inspection committee for affiliation of B.Ed. Colleges
• Chief Editor, GCTE Journal of Educational Research and Extension

  Education 1976 SSLC I Class Board of Exams., Kerala
 1978 Pre Degree I Class University of kerala
 1981 B.Sc. in Chemistry I Class University of Kerala
 1983 M.Sc. in Chemistry I Class University of Kerala
 1984 B.Ed. in Physical Science I Class University of Kerala
 1985 M.Ed. in Science Education I Class II Rank University of kerala

Research
Thesis 1 Extent of High School Pupils’ Awareness in Environmental
Chemistry and its effect on their Achievement submitted to the
University of kerala in Partial fulfillment of M.Ed. degree.
2 Diagnosis of Errors and Development of Remedial materials for
Teaching Chemistry at vocational Higher Secondary level.
Submitted to the University of Kerala in partial fulfillment of the
Ph.D. programme.
Project reports 1 Concept Mapping: an instructional Tool in Chemistry Teaching
at Higher Educatuion Level (1995) submitted to Academic Staff
College, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.
2 An Observational Schedule for assessing the performance of Physical
Science Teachers (1997) submitted to Academic Staff college,
University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.
3 Use of Internet in Teaching Science (2001) submitted to Academic
Staff College, University of kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.
4 Quality Improvement at B.Ed. Level (2003), submitted to the
Academic Staff College, Bharathidasan University, Trichy.

Papers presented
 After Ph.D. 1 “Teacher competency and computer Assisted introduction
 An investigation of attitudes and its Correlates” at the
 6th International, 37th Indian Academy of Applied Psychology
 and 3rd Pondicherry Psychology Association conference during
 5-7 January 2002 held at Pondicherry.
 2 “Usage of Internet : Practice and Attitudes of Teacher Trainees.” At the
 Third State convention and Seminar on Challenges of Teacher Education
 in the Emerging context, at Thiruvananthapuram during 30th and 31st
 July 2004.
 3 “A Model on Gagne’s Sequential Learning on the topic Dilute Solutions in
 Chemistry” at the Seminar cum workshop on Models of Teaching held at the
 Department of Education, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram,
 On 29th and 30th June 2005.
 4 Effectiveness of Gagne’s Hierarchical learning and its effect on the  achievement in Chemistry of Polytechnic students. Paper presented at the  National Seminar on Theories of learning at GCTE,Thiruvananthapuram
 Papers published
 After Ph.D. 1 “Computer Assisted Instruction: Attitudes of Teachers and the  Correlates,”
 Perspectives in Education, vol. 18, Number 1,October 2002.
2 “Development of Computer Assisted Teaching Materials in History at Higher
 Secondary Level and its effectiveness”, Journal of Educational Research
 and Extension, Vol. 42 (1) January-March 2005.
3 “Difficulties in Learning Organic Chemistry at Higher Secondary Level”,
 GCTE Journal of Research And Extension in Education, Vol. 1(1). January
 2006
4 Effectiveness of Applying Gagne’s Learning Hierarchy in Teaching
 Chemistry for Polytechnic Students, GCTE Journal of Research And Extension in  Education Vol. 1 (2) July 2006

Book Chapter
Published 1 A Chapter on marriage counseling, A Book on Family Counseling,
Published by the South Kerala diocese of Church of South India.

Other Activities 1 Developed and Standardized “Teacher Competency Scale” (1995)
2 Editorial work for College Magazine, Research Journal
3 Chief Editor, GCTE Journal of Educational Research and Extension
4 Convener, Science Club activities
5 Convener, IT Club
6 Convener, Women’s study cell Programmes

Interests Teaching Science at School and College level
 Conducting In-service training programmes to Science Teachers
 Research in Education
 Applied Education Technology
 Working with Computers and IT
 Education Psychology