A Report

of

Faculty Induction Programme-III

Sponsored by MHRD

Under PMMMNMTT

Dated: 13th June to 12th 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 13th June to 12th July 2019. In this programme, 38

university & college teachers participated, who belonged to Punjab, Jammu

& Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Sikkim,

Uttrakhand, 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. 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.

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. 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/university teachers themselves

for assessing their own performance and

to make continuous efforts to reach the

highest level.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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. 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.

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. Vandana Punia Guru Jambhewar

University, Hissar deliberated on digital

classroom. She gave hands on

experience to participants on different

digital tools.

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. 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.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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. 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. Allocation of

credits and grading system was

also discussed with examples.

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.

Dr. Biswajit Behera, Central University of Punjab Bathinda discussed

about the Inclusive Approaches to Teaching-Learning transactions to bring

the equity and equality through

inclusive educational practices. He

recommended that in order to bring

IATL in practice, the focus of the

teachers should be content

integration. Teachers should use

examples and contents from a variety

of sources in order to illustrate key

concepts/issues within their subjects.

Secondly, in the knowledge

construction process, teachers should

help students to understand,

investigate and determine how the

perspectives influence to construct knowledge. He explained that teaching

should facilitate the learning achievement of students from diverse groups.

Therefore, cooperative learning activities can help to develop more positivity

towards inter-group interactions to reach at common goal.

Dr. Jubilee Padmanabhan Central

university of Punjab, Bathinda

presented on Forms of Assessment

and explained formative and

summative assessment. She

emphasized on four assessment

paradigms i.e. assessment of

learning, assessment for learning,

assessment as learning and

assessment in learning.

Prof. Jagtar Singh Punjabi

University, Patiala discoursed about

the various issues related to the

copyright and Intellectual property

rights i.e. Academic Dishonesty,

Plagiarism, Copyright and the Fair

Use, WIPO Initiatives, National

Copyright Acts, Access v/s Ownership

Issue.

Dr. Neeraj Dilbagi Guru Jambhewar

University, Hissar addressed on

innovations in science and technology

by the special focus on the nano-

technology. His presentation skills

were appreciated by the participants.

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- III