ICT Training Programme on Coaching of Teachers in Life Skills
16th - 20th January, 2017
Mr. Dharmendra Pal, Associate Professor, Information Technology Department, Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon participated in five days “ICT Training Programme on Coaching of Teachers in Life Skills” organized by NITTTR, Chandigarh from 16th - 20th January, 2017.
The objective of the program was to introduce teachers of technical institutions with adequate life skills in order to enable them to pass on these critical skills to their students.
Day 1(16th Jan 2017):
Prof.(Dr.) M. P. Poonia, Director NITTTR, Chandigarh inaugurated the ICT training programme and gave a presentation on “Key Challenges in Engineering Education in India”. He identified the emerging issues and challenges in the field of Higher Education in India He said only 25% students of India gets a chance to pursue higher studies. This figure is much less in comparison to USA and China, which is 40 % and 60 % respectively. A teacher has to learn what is his role in the development of the society.
Mr. Alok Sood, the Program Director, Coach Grab, discussed personality development of student including recognition of their potential, addressing wellness in life. He explained teachers need to be counselors and coaches to their students and this can be achieved within their available time and capacity to be effective. He also discussed how a teacher can achieve work life balance by taking pride in the nation building.
Afternoon session was conducted by Mr. K.S. Sharma, Lead Coach from Coach Grab private Limited. He explained the need of time management, effective communication and delivery styles for the teachers.
Day 2: 17th January 2017
The session was initiated with a presentation by Ms Kamna Aggarwalla - Coordinator, Coach Grab Private Limited. She emphasized on qualities of a teacher as an individual. She discussed how a teacher can develop strong self - esteem. She conducted an activity in which the participants were asked to prepare a small write up on “My Success”. Then she conducted another activity which included a picture puzzle. The aim of the activity was to see things from student’s perspectives. The activity was followed by an exercise conducted by Mr. K.S. Sharma on goal setting for teacher and planning to achieve the goals.
Day 3: 18th January 2017
The session started with a presentation on “Self-esteem” by Mr. Raja Jayabalan - Coach, Coach Grab Private Limited. He discussed the importance of self - esteem for teachers and students. Mr. Raja said that self - esteem is made up of the thoughts, feelings, and opinions a person has about oneself. Mr. Raja conducted a practice session to improve teachers’ self - esteem.
After tea break, a session on “Human Values” was conducted by Ms. Kamna Aggarwalla. She discussed the various aspects of human values such as human aspiration, self - realization, happiness and prosperity.
Post Lunch session progressed with the presentation by Mr. K.S. Sharma. He discussed the various factors to be a passionate teacher. Mr. Sharma said that an effective teacher is the one who is creative and innovative. He suggested one doesn’t need to create everything from scratch, rather, one can modify one’s creation into something unique. He said that one can get inspiration from a huge number of sources such as books, Pinterest, YouTube, Facebook and blogs etc. The session concluded with a group exercise with a theme on being creative.
Day 4: 19th January 2017
The session started with presentation on “Service Leadership” by Mr. Raja Jayabalan - Coach, Coach Grab Private Limited. He initiated the session with a discussion on the various aspects of academic leadership, social leadership and professional leadership. Mr. Raja talked about conflict management. He then briefly described the change management process. He also talked about team building.
Mr. Alok Sood gave a presentation on “Wellness”. He said that wellness is the optimum condition of soul, body and mind. In this regard he explained the iceberg model of wellness. He then conducted a goal setting exercise for wellness.
Post lunch session, Mr. Raja Jayabalan discussed “Career Coaching”. He said that career coaching is a very important task for a teacher and through proper coaching a teacher can guide the pupils in selecting the best career option for them.
Mr. Tanuj Saxena - Mentor, Coach Grab Private Limited talked on emotional intelligence and time management. Session concluded with a practice session on time management.
Day 5: 20th January 2017
The session initiated with a presentation on “Leadership and its Importance in Life“ by Mr. Pratyush Singh-Personnel Trainer Coach, Coach Garb Pvt. Ltd In his presentation he discussed Entrepreneurship. He gave tips for creating the mind set for entrepreneurship. He said that entrepreneurship synthesizes information from across academic specialties and demands that practitioners work with a wide variety of people from different areas. He further elaborated on the practise of entrepreneurship. He stated that one cannot learn the practise unless one has experienced it. Mr Pratyush and his team conducted a number of programs in the country aiming to add an experiential dimension to Entrepreneurship and Innovation curriculum.
Mr. Singh continued the presentation with a discussion on Critical Thinking, Lateral Thinking and Analytical Thinking. He said that critical thinking is often referred to as a critical analysis which is a clear, rational thinking involving critique. He defined it as an intellectually disciplined process of actively and skilfully conceptualizing, applying, analysing, synthesizing, and evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.
Mr. Singh then presented on a topic entitled “Life skills”. He defined life skills as abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable humans to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. Life skills is a set of human skills acquired via teaching or direct experience that are used to handle problems and questions commonly encountered in daily human life.
At the end of the program valedictory session was conducted online where different institutions gave their feedback about the program. The training program ended with vote of thanks by Mrs. Rama Chhabra, Program Coordinator. After valedictory session certificates were distributed to the participants.