Five workshops on educational excellence by Centre for Research in Education Innovation and Learning Analytics (CrEiLa), CURIN
About five workshops were organized on various aspects of educational excellence and it attracted big participation from faculty members from all schools of Chitkara University.
Total participation in all workshops: 270
Total resource persons: 29
- Orientation program for freshly recruited teachers
- Workshop on How to write effective test items for question papers
- Workshop on Learning Technologies
- Update specific aspects of their classroom practice and promote learning with understanding
- Design innovative and meaningful methods to develop their students’ higher order thinking skills
- Workshop on Outcome Based Education
- Workshop on Educational Leadership
The orientation program was designed to make all new faculty members of Chitkara University aware about regulations, best practices, and various types of teaching-learning and assessment methods.
The workshop aimed at training teachers and making them write effective test items. Various types of Multiple choice test items, Essay type items were practiced, The participants worked in groups to reframe and improve their test items and looked at ways to see these question papers serving as motivation for them to attend classes in quest of knowledge which may only be given by teachers.
The participants carefully examined the test items written by themselves and learnt ways to improve them. They practiced various group activities viz jigsaw, think-pair-share to brainstorm and discuss methodologies deep rooted in research and practice.
The workshop dealt with various learning methodologies and use of technologies in enhancing learning. Active, blended and collaborative learning, guiding students to be a researcher, use of technologies in teaching, PPT making and challenges of a large classes were some of the topics the workshop covered in detail.
The core aspects of the workshop were:
To better understand existing school resources and teacher practices, the workshop did a thorough needs analysis at the outset. The needs analysis consisted of carefully examining existing classroom practice and teaching-learning processes through observing a sampling of teachers in their classrooms. This enables a teacher to customize the training and support to individual students’ needs.
The workshop aimed at helping the teacher use classroom strategies for learners to construct their own meaning of new concepts, as well as ways to apply their knowledge in real world contexts.
The objective of the workshop was to prepare key faculty members of each school / department to understand the importance of accreditation and how Outcome Based Education can play an enabler. The ways of framing outcomes and objectives of each course, each program and linking them to Program Educational Objectives and finally to the vision and mission of the university were important take aways for the participants.
The workshop saw active participation from a galleria of who’s who in the University. This was aimed at the participants who considered themselves to be the educational leaders. They discussed the basic principles of educational leadership and deliberated upon how to lead and manage educational change. They tried and found out about their personal leadership styles and learnt various skills to hone them.
Above five workshops culminated in the valedictory function on 8th July, where hon’ble vice chancellor, Dr Madhu Chitkara addressed the participants. She beautifully explained what are the attributes of a good teacher. She, in her own signature way, impressed upon participants the importance of Bloom’s taxonomy in a teacher’s life.
Dr KK Sharma presented a resource person’s perspective and Dr Sangeeta Pant introduced all the resource persons. The participants also shared their own experiences and gave useful suggestions for further improvements.
