The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur, in its pursuit to contribute to the ‘Quality Improvement in Higher Education’ inaugurated a six-day ‘Faculty Development Programme’ (FDP) on Monday for faculty members at different levels from 27 engineering institutions from five States of the country here.
The faculty from five States — West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand, Tripura and Chhattisgarh — are participating in the six-day programme being undertaken in the second phase of implementation of Technical Education quality improvement programme (TEQIP), an IIM Press release issued here on Monday stated.
Briefing about TEQIP, Professor Sanjeev Prashar, Coordinator TEQIP II at IIM Raipur informed that the six-day programme has sessions on themes ranging from Participant-centred learning, Developing Research Capability, Improving teaching learning processes, Improving Communication and Interpersonal skills, Student counselling and mentoring etc.
The program had been designed to equip the attendees to work on five projects namely ‘Accreditation and Washington Accord’, How to achieve academic excellence, Academia Industry Partnership, Teaching Pedagogy and Research Publications. The learning from this program will be implemented by the participants back in their Institutions.
Professor Vinita Sahay, in her welcome address stressed the need of student centric learning and there by imparting quality education.
She encouraged all the participants to unitedly create a teaching-learning platform for the six-day programme by becoming disciplined students though all are well established teachers.
Professor Sudarshan Tiwari, Director, NIT Raipur was the chief guest on the occasion. In his key note address, Tiwari elaborated on expectations of participants.
He said that achieving academic excellence is dependent upon improving effective teaching and implementing learner based teaching methodology. Tiwari sais that the FDP is going to improve skills of the faculty participants to prepare course outline, lesson plans, Time Management, counselling students and finding solutions for the intelligent questions posed by the students during course delivery.
In the post lunch session, “Assessing Self Strengths and weakness” was discussed by Professor Sanjeev Prashar, who is also the TEQIP-Coordinator at IIM Raipur.
Professor Vinita Sahay, the Program Director of 2nd FDP has deliberated on Time Management.
The day concluded with project workshop through group activity. All the participants were grouped into five and faculty facilitators were assigned to these groups for guiding the projects.
The theme for 2nd day will be “Research Proposals & Managing Research Grants, Publishing in world class Journals” followed by Teaching learning Process, Evaluation techniques and Using Feed back for self development.