A Report of
Faculty Induction Programme-II
Sponsored by MHRD
Under PMMMNMTT
Dated: 4th June to 3rd July, 2019
Organized by School of Education
Report
A 30 days Faculty Induction Programme was organized by School of Education at Central University of Punjab, Bathinda under PMMMNMTT (MHRD sponsored) from 04th June to 3rd July 2019. In this programme, 39 university & college teachers participated, who belonged to Punjab, Gujarat, Haryana, Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Telangana, U.P and West Bengal states.
The Programme had four sessions daily of 11/2 hour each. The experts deliberated on different topics as prescribed in “Content Framework for Induction Training of Faculty in Universities/Colleges/ Institutes”, Department of Higher Education (MHRD) followed by training activities related to the topic. Different sessions were conducted by experts namely:
Prof. Sanjay Modi Executive Dean Lovely Faculty of Business & Arts, Lovely Professional University discussed the major problems of the organizations in
the present era and emphasized the role and significance of the Governance for the Effectiveness in the organization Prof. Modi also presented the overview of
various NIRF and NAAC Parameters for the accreditation of the institutions.
Prof. R. G. Saini Adesh University, Bathinda discoursed on the university officers’ role, powers and responsibilities of VC, Pro-VC, Registrar, Dean Research, Dean Academic Affairs, Dean Student Welfare, Deans of school, Finance officer Controller of Examination, Librarian.
Prof. A. S. Chawla Vice-
Chancellor, RIMT University deliberated on the academic leadership by covering the elements of triple helix of leadership competencies i.e., Conceptualize, Empathize, and Communicate. He highlighted the Academic Leadership Crisis which are Recruitment of the Vice Chancellors, Political interference, Corruption, Employees Unionism, Governance and control Sticky, regulations, Incompetent Support System and further suggested the Strategies to build Academic Leadership.
Dr. S. Pany Central University of Punjab, Bathinda deliberated on development of objective tools of assessment like short answer & completion type or selection type i.e. true-false or alternative response, matching and multiple choice tests etc. He conferred that basic considerations for construction of objective tools of assessment might be matching the items and tasks to the learning outcomes as directly as possible, obtaining a representative sample of all intended outcomes, eliminating irrelevant barriers to the answer, preventing unintended clues to the response and focusing on improving learning and instruction.
Prof. B. S Bhatia Former Dean Academic Affairs & Registrar,
Punjabi University & Pro-Vice
Chancellor, RIMT University expounded about the utilization and misappropriation of the powers and responsibilities by the university officials as per the rules and guidelines of the
university regulations. The
university structure was discussed at length. He also discussed the utilization and misappropriation of the powers and responsibilities by the university officials as per the rules and guidelines of the university regulations. Dr. Tarun Arora Central University of Punjab, Bathinda familiarized the participants with the Law of Copyright, Patent and Access to Genetic Resources and expounded about the registration, infringement of copyright and procedure for obtaining a patent. He also discussed the rights related to copyright including those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings, and those of broadcasters in their radio and television programs.
Prof. P Ramarao Dean Academic Affairs, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda described about the University Act, Legislation and its impact on the higher education sector by emphasizing the five models of University Governance. He also discussed about the work ethics and ethical behaviour followed by factors influencing ethical managerial behavior and suggested the checklist for dealing with ethical dilemmas.
Dr. P.K. Mishra Central University of Punjab, Bathinda addressed the financial management process and best practices by familiarizing with the procedures related to financial reporting. He shared the Accounting Policies i.e., Accounting for revenue, Accounting for expenditure, Accounting for depreciation, Accounting for foreign currency Transactions and recommended the preparation of some financial reports like Preparation of weekly/monthly financial reports , Weekly/monthly cash flow status reports or cash requirements report, Bank reconciliation and review of the cash books, Petty cash reconciliation, Payroll creditors’ reconciliation, preparation of journal entries/vouchers, Review of ledger balances and control accounts, Pre-payments, Accruals, Preparation of monthly/annual variances against, budget, Balance sheet Preparation and submission of Income tax returns. Prof. Kirandeep Singh Panjab University, Chandigarh deliberated on
Observation: A method of teaching
and Teacher: A Navigator. She discussed the ways to impart knowledge or instruct using different
types of observation and stressed that it has many advantages like opportunity to record information as it occurs in a setting, study actual behaviour, study individuals who have difficulty verbalizing their ideas (e.g. pre-school children), easy to complete, saves time and it can be used in natural or experimental settings.
Prof. J. S Dhillon Vice- chancellor, Guru Kashi University expounded the reforms in education sector and
st suggested survival skills that 21 century educators have to learn to make learning effective. He highlighted the Current Trends in Global Higher Education and its influence on Indian Higher Education System followed by the Traditional Philosophies behind Education i.e., Empiricism, Logical Positivism, Jain Philosophy, Vedic Philosophy. Prof. Agyajit Singh Former Head, Deptt. of Psychology Punjabi University, Patiala emphasised on Emotional Intelligence which is a key to success in professional life and highlighted the domains of emotional intelligence. He also suggested the ways to develop emotional intelligence in life and convened on Emotional Intelligence: Concept, Approaches and Importance in Work & other Areas of Life and focused that emotional quotient can be instrumental in achieving success in many areas of professional life and can help in increasing productivity, speeding up adaptation to change, developing leadership skills and stimulating creativity. People with high EQ are happier, healthier and more successful in social relationship in their profession. Prof. Meenakshi Sharma Punjabi University, Patiala deliberated about the gifted child with respect to their identification, education and enrichment. She also deliberated on the type of diversity which can be noticed among the learners and the ways to manage the diversity. She suggested the various test for the identification of Gifted child in the classroom i.e., Mental test, Aptitude tests, Achievement tests, Report of parents and Teachers’ opinion with the strategy for the educating the gifted student.
Prof. S. K Bawa Central University of Punjab, Bathinda expounded on process of curriculum designing and development as per CBCS system i.e., Curriculum process its objectives, course structure, content, transactional modes, suggested readings for developing the curriculum.
Prof. S. K. Yadav NCERT, New Delhi deliberated on Performance Indicators and detailed the performance standards communicate expectations for each responsibility area of the job performance and addressed the issues & prospectus of Higher education. He suggested that PINDICS can be used by college/universityteachers themselves for assessing their own performance and to make continuous efforts to reach the highest level.
Dr. Deepa Kauts Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar addressed micro teaching & subject based teaching skills which are required in the educators of 21st century. She also shared that teachers who have comprehensive knowledge of their subject matter and allow their students to actively participate in the lessons, they are much aware of the problems the students. The information the teachers convey to their students should be updated and should reflect the latest scientific facts of the field. With the effective teaching skills teachers must have due focus on lesson planning, offering variety, using instruction time effectively, ensuring active participation of learners, monitoring of the students’ learning & development and ensuring the students’ self-control.
Prof. J. S Saini NITTTR,
Chandigarh discussed about evaluation of higher education sector of India with respect to role and contribution of different universities to the higher education.
Prof. Amit Kauts Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar talked about the integration of ICT to enhance teaching learning and evaluation of learners. He also explained lesson planning & approaches to lesson planning. He commented that enlightened, emancipated and empowered teachers lead communities & nations in their march toward better and higher quality of life. They reveal and elaborate the secrets of higher values in life & nurture empathy for the fellow beings.
Prof. Ananda Padhan Apeejay Satya University, Gurugram deliberated on curriculum design & development, conventional & non-conventional methods and emphasised on the four steps of the curriculum development process (Ralph Tyler’s Model).
He also discussed about the types of projects i.e., Producer type, Consumer type, Problem type, and Drill type followed by the Steps in executing a project.
Prof. Vasudha Kamat Former Vice-Chancellor, SNDT Women’s University
conducted a Workshop on ICT Tools in Teaching and Learning through virtual mode and took 6 sessions in two days. She deliberated on ICT and its relevance in 21st
Century Higher Education and provided hands on experience
of Google Drive (Google Slide
and Google Doc), Moocs, LMS and OER. (4) Open Education Resources (OER) for learning (5) Create a Blog using blogger.com and Use of Padlet (Group Work) and Create a padlet (6) Tools for Formative Assessment (Assessment for learning) and Develop tests/quiz on the tools learnt (7) Tools for Summative Assessment (Assessment of learning) Rubrics and e-Portfolio (8) MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) SWAYAM Platform. She ensured hands on experience to one and all through individual as well as group work. She also talked on use of ICT in assessment and highlighted three types of assessment i.e. diagnostic, formative and summative. Er. Sony Goyal Director, My Career Experts, Bathinda deliberated on understanding market based developments related to employability of the Students and focused on employability, skills required, skill deficit, recent developments, game/case and path forward.
Prof. S P Malhotra addressed the process of conducting interdisciplinary research, Integration of research with pedagogy and procedure for writing a project for funding. He also highlighted the hot topics for interdisciplinary research and suggested the checklist for a good interdisciplinary research proposal. He shared the ways to integrate teaching and research.
Dr. Amandeep Singh Lovely Professional University, Phagwara discussed the use of Interactive tools in Teaching and elaborated the tools of cybergogy through demonstration and Blending active learning with web technology i.e., wordpress, google classroom, edublogs, moodles, skype, TED videos, Teacher Tube, Adobe Spark, Open Talk, KhanAcademy .
Prof. Revathy Assistant Director, ICSSR discussed at length the process of Formulation of project proposal
for funding agencies and types of research project based on
funding i.e., minor project. She shared the selection procedure of the major minor project in different stages along with the new conditions for the allocations of the projects allocation by familiarize the project monitoring process and terms for the research project.
Dr. Yash Paul Sharma NCERT,
New Delhi conversed on e-Content
Development, Sensitive Issues in Indian Context for Development of e-Content and Open Educational
Resources. He also discussed the open educational resources as e-
Pathshala, MOOCs, Mobile Apps, etc.
Dr. Kannan Deputy Librarian, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda deliberated upon different Online resources i.e., Open Educational Resources, Electronic Database, E-Journals, Digital Libraries, Academic Social Network by emphasizing the OER Movement in India which included NPTEL (National program on technology enhanced learning), National OER repository (MHRD/ NCERT), eGyanKosh – IGNOU, Consortium for Educational Communication CEC for all the UG level Courses, ePG Pathshala. He discussed about the Creative Commons Copyright licenses and tools i.e., CC BY Attribution, CC BY-SA Attribution Share Alike, CC BY-ND Attribution-No Derivs, CC BY-NC Attribution-Non Commercial, CC BY-NC-SA Attribution –Non Commercial- Share Alike, CC BY-NC-ND Attribution –Non Commercial- No Derivs.
Prof. Anjana Munshi addressed the various issues for the Gender sensitization. And conferred that Gender roles are usually centred on conceptions of femininity and masculinity. She also highlighted the present special Provisions available related to women employees in Central Government with the guidelines of supreme court on sexual harassment and domestic violence against women pwdv act- 2005 by addressing the different type of abuse i.e., physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal abuse and economic abuse and some prominent cases i.e., A S J ‘X’ V/s Registrar General , High Court of Madhya Pradesh: 2014 (10) SLT 618, Saurabh Kumar Mallick Vs. Comptroller & Auditor General of India 2008 (151) DLT 261, Dr. A.S.Anand CJI & V.N. Khare J. SC, Apparel Export Promotion Council V/s A.K. Chopra 1999 (1) SCC 759, Rupan Deol Bajaj vs Kanwar Pal Singh Gill : 1996 AIR 309.
Prof. Anita Rastogi Jamia Millia Islamia University deliberated upon Web based Pedagogy and demonstrated the process of Web Quest. The web quest design is presented in six parts called building blocks referred to as the Introduction, Task, Process, Resources, Evaluation, and Conclusion. She conferred that these building blocks are tightly formatted Internet lessons that leave little chance for students to get distracted or be exposed to inappropriate websites. She also discussed about the Web Quest taskonomy i.e., compilation task, judgement task, retelling task, mystery task, persuasion task, creative task, analytic task, design task, Journalistic task, self- knowledge task.
Prof. Rashmi Choudhuri Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi shared the approaches of Inclusive Teaching Learning and conferred that inclusive education are deeply embedded with value system which reflect a commitment to Accept and respect diversity, an agenda of inherent right to education, understand that all individuals learn differently, Participation in school education institution and shared the Multiple ways to Present Lesson Content which are Auditory, Visual, Tactile/kinesthetic, Affective, Technology Options and suggested the multiple ways to engage the different type of learner i.e., Lecturing, presenting information orally through a character, Singing, reading aloud, reading articles, books, watching video clips or a slide show, showing on a poster, chart graph, or slide, watching a play, using sign language, providing an advanced organizer, Taking a field trip , demonstrating (for example, drawing, sculpting, constructing, playing a game), Watching a dance, Using sign language/ gestures, Using Braille. She also provided Specific Accommodation Suggestions for Visually Impaired Students.
Dr. Rubal Central University of Punjab, Bathinda presented the ways to identify the fake news and familiarize the vivid method of online verification and fact- checking. He also highlighted some popular fake stories in Indian media and conferred Communication, Collaboration, Creativity and Critical thinking these are skills required for this century. We have to foster critical thinking among the masses to help them in differentiate between information/ misinformation. Critical mind is fact checking mind. They question every piece of information, analyse and evaluate it based on their pervious knowledge.
Prof. G.S Batra, Dean Academic Affairs Punjabi University, Patiala explained the organization Structure and various Academic bodies of university with respect to their functions. The elements which needs to be taken care for accreditation and assessment were also highlighted.
Prof. R.K Kohli vice chancellor, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda presented the Best Practices which is adopted by the central university of Punjab that are digital initiatives with respect to administration & finances, online admission process, fully automated library, Off-Campus Access & University Management System, Information Knowledge sharing platforms for transparency, Computer Literacy Programme, Service-learning Programme, Unnat Bharat Abhyiaan, Robust IT connectivity, Best Student Awards, Best Teacher Awards, Outstanding Research Award, Incentives for award for national / international recognition, Automated Result Processing System. He also highlighted the status of central university of Punjab and Renewable Energy & Good Environment Practices i.e., solar water heater, solar lights, windmill, sewage treatment plants, and desalination plants.
All participants were assigned different topics to present in the last session using different modes of transactions which was followed by interaction with all participants and concluded by the chairperson. Dialogue method, presentation through PPT, activity method, explanation with different modes were commonly used during their presentations of assignments.
Two Field visits were also conducted to central university of Punjab for giving demonstrations on digital podium, e notice boards, smart boards, etc. and Talwandi sabo Ten minutes were given to fill up the feedback proforma every day after the last session, which was analysed and feedback was also conveyed to the experts.
Faculty Induction Programme-II