Innovative Teaching Pedagogies & Faculty Certifications

The faculty members are trained to improve the quality of teaching and to bring innovations in the teaching-learning program.

List of faculty trained and certified by IUCEE International Engineering Educator Program Certificate:

Innovations in Teaching and Learning

Innovations by the Faculty in teaching and learning shall be summarized as per the following description.

Contributions to teaching and learning are activities that contribute to the improvement of student learning. These activities may include innovations not limited to, use of ICT, instruction delivery, instructional methods, assessment, evaluation and inclusive class rooms that lead to effective.

Efficient and engaging instruction. Any contributions to teaching and learning should satisfy the following criteria:

• l. The work must be available for peer review and critique
• ll. The work must be reproducible and developed further by other scholars

The department/institution may set up appropriate processes for making the contributions available to the public, getting them reviewed and for rewarding. These may typically include statement of clear goals, adequate preparation, use of appropriate methods, significance of results, effective presentation and reflective critique.

Instructional methods for teaching students:

• 1. Lecturing where professors address the most people at once, in the most general manner, while still conveying the information that he or she feels is most important, according to the lesson plan.

• 2. Demonstrating is the process of teaching through examples or experiments.

• 3. Collaborating Collaboration allows students to actively participate in the learning process by talking with each other and listening to others opinions.

• 4. Classroom discussion It is also a democratic way of handling a class, where each student is given equal opportunity to interact and put forth their views. A discussion taking place in a classroom can be either facilitated by a teacher or by a student.

• 5. Classroom Action Research Classroom Action Research is a method of finding out what works best in your own classroom so that you can improve student learning.

Assessment Methods

• 1. JIGSAW
• 2. Think pair share
• 3. Think Aloud Pair Problem Solving(TAPPS)
• 4. Reciprocal Teaching
• 5. Group Work
• 6. MCQ
• 7. Observation
• 8. Open book
• 9. Orals
• 10. Participative online discussion
• 11. Peer assessment
• 12. Performance
• 13. Group writing Assignments

Evaluation Methods

• 1. Instructional Delivery (including quality, amount, and level of classroom instruction)
• 2. Course Planning (including development of course materials, course revision, development of new courses)
• 3. Grading and Assessing Student Learning (including appropriate level of assignments, exams, grading standards)
• 4. Course Management (including supervision of GSIs)
• 5. Oversight of Independent Studies, Honors Theses, Prelims, Dissertations
• 6. Support for Student Internships, Experiential Learning, Service Learning
• 7. Department and Curricular Work (including participation in curriculum revision, departmental efforts to focus on teaching)
• 8. Advising and Mentoring
• 9. Professional Development and Innovation around Teaching