Learning outcome of FDP on Teaching Pedagogy Models

FDP on Teaching Pedagogy Models was held at Rayat Institute of Management on

18th Oct 2014 in which there were four teams of five members each presented their
valuable views and demonstrated creative methods to enhance teaching learning skills.
The programme aimed at elaborating upon the various teaching pedagogy models as
an effective tool especially in management studies. It has been a great learning
experience which helped me a lot in following aspects:
1) Concept Mapping: Concept maps represent knowledge in graphic form. Networks
consist of nods, which represent concepts, and links, which represent relationships
between concepts. Concept maps can aid in generating ideas because these make
integration of old and new knowledge concept maps can help students
understanding.
2) Mystery Story: Teacher sets up a mystery story (videos, animations) that evolves
students to investigate into the problem, allowing the teacher to incorporate
different knowledge/concepts.
3) Curiosity Building: Everyone makes assumptions about how the world around us,
which in creative situations, can prevent seeing or generating possibilities.
Deliberately seeking out and addressing previously unquestioned assumptions
stimulates creative thinking.
4) Role Playing: Role plays give the students an opportunity to practice what they
have learned. this provides concrete information and clear role descriptions so that
students can play their roles with confidence. Once the role play is finished, some
time is spent on debriefing and learning aspects.
5) Brainstorming: Brainstorming, a useful tool to develop creative solutions to a
problem, is a lateral thinking process by which students are asked to develop ideas or
thoughts that may seem crazy or shocking at first. Brainstorming can help define an
issue, diagnose a problem, or possible solutions and resistance to proposed solutions.
6) Negative Brainstorming: Negative brainstorming involves analyzing a short list of
existing ideas, rather than the initial massing of ideas as in conventional
brainstorming. Examining potential failures is relevant when an idea is new or
complex or when there is little margin for error. Negative brainstorming raises such
questions as: What could go wrong with this project? Reverse brain-storming is
valuable when it is difficult to identify direct solutions to a problem.
7) Student Involvement: The programme has highlighted the concept of creating a
conducive learning environment by maximizing the involvement of students.
8) Peer tutoring: The programme helped me to learn about various innovative
teaching styles from my fellow faculty and motivated me to carry forward this
practice in the class by dividing students into groups and assigning presentation to
them.
By:- Kawal Nain Singh