FDP REPORT

Computer Society of India (CSI), Surat Chapter

supported & in technical collaboration with

Gujarat Technological University (GTU), Ahmedabad

One Week

Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on

“Active Teaching Learning Strategies” 22–26 April, 2013 organized by & at

Narmada Education & Scientific Research Society‟s

Narmada College of Computer Application, Narmada Education Campus, Shuklatirth Road, Zadeshwar, Bharuch, Gujarat – 392 011. (India) Phone: 02642–230922; Telefax: 02642–231325

Email ID: sttp_ncca@yahoo.com Website: www.ncca.ac.in

Coordinator

Dr. Jatinderkumar R. Saini, Associate Prof. & I/C Director, NCCA &

Director (I.T.), GTU‟s Ankleshwar-Bharuch Innovation Sankul

Organizing Committee

Mr. Bhavesh A. Patel, Asst. Prof., MCA Programme, NCCA

Dr. Jatin C. Modh, Asst. Prof., MCA Programme, NCCA

Ms. Purvi P. Tailor, Asst. Prof., MCA Programme, NCCA

Ms. Manisha J. Vasava, Asst. Prof., MCA Programme, NCCA

Mr. Sanket R. Trivedi, Asst. Prof., MCA Programme, NCCA

Mr. Vishal P. Rajput, Asst. Prof., MCA Programme, NCCA

Venue

Conference Hall, 1st Floor, MCA Programme,

Narmada College of Computer Application,

Zadeshwar, Bharuch, Gujarat – 392 011. (India)

Dignitaries Present (Inauguration & Valediction) Sh. Virendra C. Bhatt Addl. General Manager, GNFC & Trustee, Narmada Education & Scientific Research Society Dr. B.M. Rawal Principal Narmada College of Science & Commerce, Zadeshwar, Bharuch. Mr. R. B. Panchal General Manager, GNFC & Trustee, Narmada Education & Scientific Research Society

Dr. Jatinderkumar R. Saini Associate Prof. & I/C Director, Narmada College Of Computer Application, Bharuch & Director (I.T.), GTU‟s Ankleshwar-Bharuch Innovation Sankul

FDP Resource Persons (in order of sessions during the FDP)

Dr. Jatinderkumar R. Saini, Associate Prof. & I/C Director, Narmada College Of Computer Application, Bharuch & Director (I.T.), GTU‟s Ankleshwar-Bharuch Innovation Sankul Sh. Nitin K. Tailor, BE (Comp.), MTech-IIITB & Malmo Univ., Sweden Social Entreprenuer & CEO, SocialSrishti & Ex-Head, HMP Foundation Dr. Manisha V. Shukla, PhD, LLM Principal I/C, M.S.K. Law College, Bharuch Sh. Bhavin C. Chauhan, MA, MEd, NET, PhD (Regd.) Professional Corporate Trainer & Visiting Faculty, Narmada College of Computer Application, Bharuch Ms. Krishna Naidu Parker, MA, MPhil (English) Principal, Narmada Calorx Public School, Bharuch & Member, Principal‟s Centre, Harvard University

Dr. Dinesh Kumar Verma, PhD (IIT-Kanpur), Ex-INSA Fellowship Professor, IIT-Kanpur & Professor, Department of Mathematics, Narmada College of Science and Commerce, Zadeshwar, Bharuch Sh. Rajendra B. Vadia, General Manager (Retd.), GNFC Sh. Subhashchandra Yadav, BE (Mech.), MBA (Mktg.), NET, FDP-IIMA Assistant Professor (Mktg.), Narmada College of Management, Bharuch Dr. Trupti S. Almoula, PhD, BE (Civil), MBA (Mktg.), PGDHRM Director I/C, Narmada College of Management, Bharuch & Director (Management), GTU‟s Ankleshwar-Bharuch Innovation Sankul Ms. Smita Nair, MBA (Fin. + Mktg.) Assistant Professor & HOD, BBA Programme, Narmada College of Science and Commerce, Bharuch

Topics Covered

Holistic Education

Active Teaching & Learning: The Concept & its Importance

Implementation of Active Teaching Learning Strategies

Creating Innovative Environment in Classrooms

Redefining Career with Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Approach

Professional Ethics and Career Orientation

Expectations of Parents & Students from Teaching

Fraternity

Effective Body Language

Effective Non-verbal Skills for Teachers

Teaching Pedagogy

Instruction and Recitation Improvement

Teaching Learning Strategies of IITs

Teaching and Learning: Ancient Indian Perspectives

Educational Psychology

Using Case Study Method for Effective Classroom Teaching

Etc….....

Participants’ summary

Number of participants: 30 Number of institutes/departments participated: 15

Brief Write-up on FDP GNFC‟s Narmada Education & Scientific Research Society managed Narmada College of Computer Application, Zadeshwar had organized a well-crafted and planned One Week Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on “Active Teaching Learning Strategies” during 22-26 April, 2013. The FDP was organized with support from Computer Society of India (CSI), Surat Chapter and in technical collaboration with Gujarat Technological University (GTU), Ahmedabad. Only faculties were eligible for attending the FDP and 30 faculties from 15 different institutions/departments spread all-over Gujarat state participated in the FDP. The faculties were from institutions like Shroff Institute Ankleshwar, S.P.University Anand, Parul Institute Baroda, VNSGU Surat, Ganpat University Mehsana and also those from Bharuch District like Kadakia College Ankleshwar, IQRA BCA College Dahegam, Valia BCA College Valia, SVMIT Bharuch, Narmada Calorx International School, etc.

On first day, 22nd April 2013, the FDP was inaugurated by Sh. V.C. Bhatt, AGM, GNFC & Trustee, NEST and Dr. B.M.Raval, Principal, NCSC. The first session was taken by Sh. V.C. Bhatt on HOLISTIC EDUCATION. He discussed and suggested various tips and techniques for effective education. The next session was on “ACTIVE TEACHING LEARNING STRATEGIES: THE CONCEPTS & ITS IMPORTANCE PART1” conducted by Dr. Jatinderkumar R. Saini. He elaborated what to do during class room teaching under the title “THOU SHALL”. He showed various techniques like pause procedure, shift the balance of power, animations, cartoons, videos by giving interesting examples. All participants learnt many creative ideas. After lunch, we visited the Narmada Calorx Public School and came to know about smart board. The participants were also provided hands-on experience of using Smart Boards. The last session was on “creative Innovative Environment in Classrooms” taken by Sh. Nitin Tailor, CEO & founder of Social Sristi –social innovation company, MTech from IIIT Bombay & 2nd prize winner of startup week end International competition at IIM, Ahmedabad. He showed his ideas by innovative online presentation tool prezi.

On 2nd day, 23rd April 2013, Dr. Jatinderkumar R Saini started talk on “Active Teaching Learning strategies: the concepts & its importance part

2. He talked about “THOU SHALL NOT”. He showed various techniques by giving an example and videos. He engaged participants by various activities like 3-minute paper activity, exchange of notes, group discussion, sharing of ideas. He differentiated about group discussion and debate. The next session was taken by Dr. Manisha V. Shukla, Principal I/C, MSK Law college. He talked about Professional Ethics and career orientation. In post lunch session, Sh. Nitin Tailor elaborated on “Redefining career with entrepreneurship and Innovation approach”. The FDP also included, first of its kind gesture, by inviting parents and providing them a platform to interact with the teaching fraternity and sharing their thoughts/views and expectations from the teaching fraternity. The last session was allocated to parents.

On 3rd day, 24th April 2013, 1st session was started by Sh. Bhavin Shah, professional corporate trainer & visiting faculty. His topic was Effective Body language. He explained the importance of body language. He showed three interesting demos. All participants enjoyed and learnt various ideas from these demos. The next session was of madam Krishna Parkar, principal, Narmada calrox public school. She differentiated between college teaching and school teaching. She briefly explained all learning activities like quizzes, modeling, examples, peer teaching, group projects, handouts, debate, storytelling, interviews, virtual field trips etc. The 3rd session was taken by Dr. Jatinderkumar Saini on various teaching pedagogies. He mainly discussed on “THOU SHALL NOT” / What should not be done? during teaching. The last session of the day was taken by Dr. D. K. Verma, Dept of Maths, NCSC. He discussed various teaching strategies of IITs.

On 4th day, 25th April 2013, the 1st session was started by Sh. R.B.Vadia, Rtd. General Manager, GNFC. He explained how to improve Instruction and Recitation. Participants‟ learnt many ideas from this session. The next session was taken by Sh. Bhavin Chauhan on “Effective Non-verbal Skills for teachers”. He explained about the types of communication, importance of non-verbal communication, communication barriers, importance of self respect etc. The 3rd session was on “Teaching and Learning: Ancient Indian Perspectives” taken by Sh. Subhash yadav, Faculty, NCM. He also explained the importance of mother tongue and English language, Upnishad, Puran etc. The 4th and last session was taken by Dr. Trupti Madam, I/C director of NCM on “Educational Psychology”. She explained about what is good teaching,

role of educational psychology, characteristics of effective teachers, various theories for teachers and cognitive development.

On fifth day, 26th April 2013, the 1st session was taken by Smita Nair madam, Asst prof and HOD, BBA programme. Her topic was “USING CASEMETHOD FOR EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM TEACHING”. She discussed traditional and case method, benefits of case method and the role of instructor in case method. She had also given one case to the participants. Other session was taken by Dr. Jatinderkumar Saini. He demonstrated and elaborated the use of Flash card, Sticky notes and other active strategies. In 3rd session, participants shared their views and good practices. The last session was the valedictory session. Sh. R.B.Panchal, GM, GNFC & Trustee NEST addressed and distributed the certificates to participants.

The FDP was intended to impart training to faculties so that they can design the lectures in such a way that the students are „automatically pulled‟ and attracted towards the lecture and inside the lecture also they can remain attentive enough to retain whatever knowledge is dissipated during the 60 minutes of the lecture, ultimately improving concentration and hence the results of the students.

On 24th April, 2013, the FDP was also covered by the reputed media personnel in Bharuch including Channel Narmada and Channel IN. On the same date, a press note was also issued by Narmada College of Computer Application.

The organizers are thankful to all the participants for coming to NCCA, their HODs/Principals/Directors for understanding the importance of the FDP and relieving their faculties. The organizers are also thankful to all the resource persons and other dignitaries for sparing their precious time to contribute to the FDP. The organizers are also thankful to the media for providing coverage to FDP and including it as a news-item.

GLIMPSES OF THE FDP

Lightening of Lamp at Inaugural Function.

Inaugural Function

Dr. Jatinderkumar R. Saini during Inauguration session

Dr. B.M. Rawal during Inaugural Speech

Session in motion by Dr. Jatinderkumar R. Saini

Hands-on experience of using Smart Boards

Participants watching the demonstration of Smart Boards

Interactive Session in motion

Group activity during the session

Parents Explaining Their Expectations From Teaching Fraternity

Session on Effective Body Language by Sh. Bhavin Chauhan

Session in motion by Sh. Bhavin Chauhan

Session in motion by Dr. Jatinderkumar R. Saini

Session in motion

Group activity during the session

Session in motion by Dr. Manisha Shukla

Media taking interview of Dr. Jatinderkumar R. Saini, FDP coordinator

Session in motion by Ms. Krishna Parker

Session in motion by Dr. Dinesh Kumar Verma

Session in motion by Sh. Subhash Yadav

Session in motion by Dr. Jatinderkumar R. Saini

Sh. A.G.Patel Chairman CSI Surat Chapter (gracing the occasion)

Floral welcome of guest (Valedictory function)

Speech by Sh. R.B. Panchal (Valedictory Function)

Guests & Participants during Valedictory Function

Certificate Distribution.

Group photo of participants

SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO Computer Society of India (CSI), Surat Chapter, Surat Gujarat Technological University (GTU), Ahmedabad Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Company Ltd. (GNFC),

Bharuch Narmada Education & Scientific Research Society (NEST),

Bharuch Narmada College of Science and Commerce (NCSC),

Bharuch Narmada College of Management (NCM), Bharuch

Narmada Calorx Public School (NCPS), Bharuch

REPORT PREPARED BY

DR. JATINDERKUMAR R. SAINI COORDINATOR, FDP-2013