This presentation deals with the various issues involved in promoting excellence in the teaching learning process, such as sense of belonging among students, facilitation, feedback and team learning.
3. HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS
(HOTS)
Critical thinking
Reflective thinking
Complex thinking
Analytical thinking
Dialectical thinking
Integrative thinking
Creative thinking
Ethical thinking
Problem solving
Evaluating and decision making
4. MOVING FROM SECONDARY
EDUCATION TO HIGHER
EDUCATION
Focus on employability
Reducing power distance in teaching-learning
process
Focus on HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills)
Focus on facilitation of learning
Focus on self-learning and life long learning
Focus on Being and Doing
Peer learning
Creating global and holistic mindset
6. TEACHER-CENTRED LEARNING
Onus of learning is on the teacher
rather than on the student
Teacher has full control over teaching learning
process and classroom
Focus on delivery of content
Lecture as the predominant pedagogical tool
Punishment for non-learning
Concern for covering the syllabus, instead of
uncovering insights
Individual learning
Poor participation and teamwork
7. STUDENT-CENTRED LEARNING
Onus of learning is on the student rather than on
the teacher
Instructor as a facilitator
Focus on learning and learning to learn
Experiential learning, with focus on high
engagement, is the main pedagogical tool,
Lecture is the supplementary tool
Focus on vital aspects of contents
Peer to peer learning
Avenues and opportunities for interaction with
faculty outside the classroom
8. DOS DON'TS
Measurement of
previous learning
Profile of students
Pre-read
Pre-class group
discussion
Testing of pre-read
Scaffolding
Multiplicity of
experiential learning
techniques
Experience to learning
Long lecture
Poor student
involvement
Pampering
Navel gazing
Information sharing
We-they attitude
Traditional assessment
of learning
Poor sharing of
methodology among
instructors
Leaving everything to
students
9. CREATING A SENSE OF BELONGING
Keep the student as a focal point of activities
Respect the student
Care for the student
Treat the student as an adult
Involve the student in multiple activities
Create learning and development opportunities
outside the class
Focus on placement and employability of the
student
10. INDIVIDUAL LEARNING:
FACILITATION
Be interested and enthusiastic about your
subject. Demonstrate its importance to students
Use less of lecture, more of simulations,
exercises, and cases
Use various student involvement techniques
Show that you care for students and they are of
great importance to you
Use variations in facilitation
Greater power distance, lesser
participation
Be a role model to your students
11. INDIVIDUAL LEARNING: CLIMATE
Clarification of expectations from students
Moderate and reasonable expectations
Encouragement for participation
Reward for asking questions
Co-creating class norms for student behaviour
Attentive listening to students
Maintaining poise in emotive situations
Sense of humour
12. INDIVIDUAL LEARNING: FEEDBACK
Continual and detailed feedback, not grades
Analytical feedback on written work
Using both positive and negative feedback
Discuss feedback, if required
Encourage continuous improvement
Give students model answers
Tell students about the best answer and poor
answer
Seek feedback about feedback!
13. FOSTERING TEAM LEARNING
Recognise that team learning is as important as individual
learning
Create group learning opportunities, such as group
presentation
Use engagement techniques that are group activity based
Encourage dialogue, discussion and difference resolution
in the class
Check whether students are learning in their study groups
Evolve control mechanisms for enhancing learning
through student projects
Use Moodle for collaborative learning
Understand and manage group dynamics and team
development