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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
suggested survival skills that 21st
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