A teachers consistent interaction and follow-up with student encourages the student very much and it should be a planned feature in online learning said Padmashree Dr DB Phatak, Professor Emeritus, IIT Bombay while interacting online with senior teachers from all over India in Meet The Experts sessions during the online orientation training programme (OTP) for mentors.
The teachers are attending this one week programme under the National Initiative for Technical Teacher' Training(NITTT) of the AICTE. Such a programme has been organised for the second time for new batch of senior teachers by NITTTR Bhopal. He said that teacher’s concern should be to have continuous dialogue with every student in the class in every semester. He said that online teaching can cover a large number of students at a time but also does not restrict the teacher to monitor and maintain personal contact with the students.
By using features of ICT, a teacher can better maintain contact with all students ranging from poor learners to very fast learners. A teachers role is to do value addition of every student. The session was moderated by Dr S.S. Pattnaik, Director NITTTR Chandigarh.
In another Meet, the Expert sessions Former UPSC Chairman Dr D.P Agrawal discussed the importance of ethics of teaching profession for different roles of teacher: from teacher to an administrator.
He talked about ethical practices in respect of assessment, research, evaluation in examinations and in selection processes
The third Meet the Expert session on institutional management and administrative aspects was also very relevant for mentors as a prime component to build the overall conducive climate of institutions. Dr K.K. Aggarwal, Chairman, National Board of Accreditation (NBA) stressed on mentors to develop best practices in order to innovate and facilitate students achievement. He also stressed the importance of creating a climate of mutual trust between teacher and student and also between teacher and management to strive for the best performance by every individual.
Dr. Joshua Earnest, coordinator of the mentors orientation programmes informed that the panel discussions with experts from eminent industries have been organized on the last day of the OTP to provide opportunity to the mentors to interact with industry experts so that the teaching fraternity can well understand industry perspective and use the guidelines developed by NITTTR Bhopal to guide the new inductee teachers for making relevant their teaching learning process to the industry needs.
Dr C Thangaraj, Director NITTTR Bhopal said that as value addition to this one-week Mentor Orientation Programme, renowned experts from Industrial sector, senior academicians associated with leading technical institutions, regulatory bodies and the UPSC are sharing their experiences and giving their inputs to the teachers on various aspects of teaching profession.
