WORKSHOPS & TRAINING PROGRAMS (FOR FACULTY)

Workshops for teachers conducted by experts for In-Service Training and Orientation Programmes are regular features. The programs are held to keep abreast of pedagogy, assessments, latest technology, communication skills and personality development to contribute towards the professional growth of the teachers.

Classroom Management includes a variety of skills and technique.

Classroom Management includes a variety of skills and techniques that teachers use to keep students organized, orderly, focused, attentive, on task, and academically productive during a class.

When classroom-management strategies are executed effectively, teachers minimize the behaviours that impede learning for both individual students and groups of students, while maximizing the behaviours that facilitate or enhance learning. Effective teachers tend to display strong classroom-management skills, while the hallmark of the inexperienced or less effective teacher is a disorderly classroom filled with students who are not working or paying attention. For Effective classroom management teachers should focus largely on “rules and strategies to make sure students are sitting in their seats, following directions and listening attentively.

A good Classroom management extends to everything that teachers may do to facilitate or improve student learning, which would include the factors -

• Behaviour (a positive attitude, happy facial expressions, encouraging statements, the respectful and fair treatment of students, etc.).
• Environment (for example, a welcoming, well-lit classroom filled with intellectually stimulating learning materials that’s organized to support specific learning activities).
• Expectations (the quality of work that teachers expect students to produce, the ways that teachers expect students to behave toward other students, the agreements that teachers make with students).
• Materials (the types of texts, equipment, and other learning resources that teachers use).
• Activities (the kinds of learning experiences that teachers design to engage student interests, passions, and intellectual curiosity).

Workshop on Life Skills

Communication and interpersonal skills. This broadly describes the skills needed to get on and work with other people, and particularly to transfer and receive messages either in writing or verbally. Decision-making and problem-solving. This describes the skills required to understand problems, find solutions to them, alone or with others, and then take action to address them. Creative thinking and critical thinking. This describes the ability to think in different and unusual ways about problems, and find new solutions, or generate new ideas, coupled with the ability to assess information carefully and understand its relevance. Self-awareness and empathy, which are two key parts of emotional intelligence. They describe understanding yourself and being able to feel for other people as if their experiences were happening to you. Assertiveness and equanimity, or self-control. These describe the skills needed to stand up for yourself and other people, and remain calm even in the face of considerable provocation. Resilience and ability to cope with problems, which describes the ability to recover from setbacks, and treat them as opportunities to learn, or simply experiences.