Dignitaries with participants of Faculty Development Prog at Baptist College, Kohima on March 2.
Kohima, March 2 (MExN): A Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on “Effective Teaching Strategies” was organised today at Baptist College Kohima. The programme was organised by Internal Quality Assurance Cell (lQAC) of the college in collaboration with State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT).
The programme comprised of two sessions with Daniel Thong Seb, Senior Lecturer, Head of ICT & Inclusive Education SCERT and Aylwin Semp, Lecturer, DIET, Wokha as the resource persons.
In the first session, Thong threw light on “Inclusive Teaching Practices” focussing on the need of mainstreaming children with intellectual disabilities, inclusive and exclusive practice, strategies for Inclusive education and role of teachers.
Alluding to examples of inclusion, Thong pointed out that segregation and integration is not inclusion and does not do much for disabled learners in mainstream education.
Talking of inclusive practice, Thong pointed out that education is truly inclusive only when it actually benefits all learners. He mentioned that inclusiveness also means accommodation of regular children, special children and economically challenged students.
Speaking of barriers to inclusive education, Thong asserted that policies which do not promote inclusiveness should be done away with.
He pointed out that inclusion in various institutions is very important for promotion of empathy.
Talking of teaching strategies, he pointed out that teachers ought to teach in a way that the student understands and not as the teacher understands.
The second session “Integrating Technology in the classroom” was taken up by Aylwin Semp, Lecturer, DIET, Wokha.
Speaking on the importance of using technology in classroom teaching- learning experience, Semp shared three tips to help integrate technology in the classrooms, namely 1) Gamify Learning Experience, 2) Interactive Lecture and 3)Creation of online classroom. A practical demonstration on how to use the various online tools, platforms and applications such as Quizizz, Google Slides, Google Docs, Google Sheets, WhatsApp, Facebook, GoogleMeet etc. which can become handy teaching tools was done.
Also mentioning the rising case of cyber attack and bridge of security, Semp shared some thoughts relating to basic awareness on the three most common types of cyber attacks - Malware attack, Phishing attack and Man-in-the-Middle attack- and some suggestions on how to be secure against cyber attack to some extent such as by turning on build-in windows Firewall system, installing anti-virus, creating unique difficult password and avoiding unknown emails.
The programme organised for the teaching staff of the college was chaired by Dr. Sentinaro, IQAC Coordinator.
Earlier, Dr Kekuchol Pusa, Principal of Baptist College delivered welcome address.
Dr Videkhono Yhokha, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology proposed the vote of thanks.
