ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
This Workshop is organized by the IQAC at Mar Ivanios College.
This Workshop is organized by the IQAC at Mar Ivanios College.
Theme: "Towards Formulating Best Classroom Practices in Teaching, Learning and Evaluation"
The point of departure of this Workshop is the assumption that the quality of any Higher Education Institution ultimately rests on the quality of its teaching-learning and evaluation processes, and on the quality of its teachers.
It also assumes that what happens inside the classroom and how teaching-learning and evaluation strategies are honed to micro-level perfection within individual teaching-learning sessions are the keys to improving quality in teaching-learning and evaluation.
The basic aim of this Workshop is to provide a platform for academicians, educational experts and teachers to come together, re-assess and re-formulate best classroom practices by understanding and improving the processes involved in quality teaching-learning and evaluation, and to evaluate the role of ICT in the classroom. The objective of the Conference is therefore to provide the basic theoretical framework around which best classroom practices should evolve, and to translate theoretical insights into classroom practices through work-shop/ interactive sessions.
It is hoped that this would result in creating a set of teacher-determined benchmarks for pragmatic, learner-centred, flexible and effective teaching-learning and evaluation classroom practices, which would result in quality enhancement and sustenance within the classroom context.
DISCUSSION THEMES
Four discussion themes have been identified to fulfill the objectives of the proposed programme:
FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP
The format of the Workshop essentially consists of a one-hour lecture followed by an interactive/ panel discussion/ workshop session, where the inputs of teachers regarding the best practices on teaching, learning and evaluation relevant to the specific discussion point would be formulated and documented.
This Workshop could be considered a success only if it has an impact on the real-time classroom practices of teachers after attending the programme. The formulation and implementation of Best Classroom Practices should end up being a flexible, creative, self-renewing process, modifying and adapting itself continuously to the ground realities of each individual college and teacher.
WHO MAY ATTEND
REGISTRATION AND OTHER DETAILS
The point of departure of this Workshop is the assumption that the quality of any Higher Education Institution ultimately rests on the quality of its teaching-learning and evaluation processes, and on the quality of its teachers.
It also assumes that what happens inside the classroom and how teaching-learning and evaluation strategies are honed to micro-level perfection within individual teaching-learning sessions are the keys to improving quality in teaching-learning and evaluation.
The basic aim of this Workshop is to provide a platform for academicians, educational experts and teachers to come together, re-assess and re-formulate best classroom practices by understanding and improving the processes involved in quality teaching-learning and evaluation, and to evaluate the role of ICT in the classroom. The objective of the Conference is therefore to provide the basic theoretical framework around which best classroom practices should evolve, and to translate theoretical insights into classroom practices through work-shop/ interactive sessions.
It is hoped that this would result in creating a set of teacher-determined benchmarks for pragmatic, learner-centred, flexible and effective teaching-learning and evaluation classroom practices, which would result in quality enhancement and sustenance within the classroom context.
DISCUSSION THEMES
Four discussion themes have been identified to fulfill the objectives of the proposed programme:
- Basic Educational Psychology: This theme aims to provide an understanding of how basic principles in educational psychology could help to create muscle knowledge for the teacher in core pedagogic practices.
- Ethics and the Teacher: The purpose here would be to formulate baseline ethical standards in teaching, learning and evaluation in the classroom situation, both in relation to ethics and the teacher, and ethics in classroom practices.
- Classroom Practices: This session hopes to come up with remedies for the current asymmetric classroom practices even across the same discipline or across the same course by brainstorming towards a clear idea about what it is that needs to be really done within a teaching-learning session.
- Monitoring Teaching-Learning and Evaluation: This discussion theme hopes to make teachers accountable to themselves about the efficacy their classroom practices by helping them to identify necessary parameters to monitor their classroom practices through self-reflective practices.
FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP
The format of the Workshop essentially consists of a one-hour lecture followed by an interactive/ panel discussion/ workshop session, where the inputs of teachers regarding the best practices on teaching, learning and evaluation relevant to the specific discussion point would be formulated and documented.
This Workshop could be considered a success only if it has an impact on the real-time classroom practices of teachers after attending the programme. The formulation and implementation of Best Classroom Practices should end up being a flexible, creative, self-renewing process, modifying and adapting itself continuously to the ground realities of each individual college and teacher.
WHO MAY ATTEND
- This programme is open to all teachers at the HE level in India, with the focus on teachers in Arts, Science and Commerce.
- The Conference is limited to 150 participants, out of which 15 seats are reserved for teachers from outside Kerala.
- IQAC Coordinators are Special Invitees to this Workshop.
- Preference will be given to teachers with less than 10 years of service.
REGISTRATION AND OTHER DETAILS
- Registration will be on first-come-first-served basis and can be done online OR by SMS. For details visit the REGISTRATION page.
- Registration fees: Rs 500/-
- Duty and participation certificates will be issued to all participants.
- Complimentary dormitory type accommodation will be provided to outstation participants on request. Hotel accommodation can also be arranged for those desirous of the same on paid basis. Please see ACCOMMODATION for details.