Educational Thoughts

Dental and Pharma 1 Indian Council for Medical Research The Council provides partial financial assistance for organising Seminars/ Symposia/ Workshops. URL http://icmr.nic.in/icmrnews/seminar.htm 2 TWAS is a programme unit within the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). With funds provided by the Italian government, TWAS encourages the organization of high-level international and regional scientific activities in developing countries by offering financial assistance to the organizers of such events. Deadlines for applications: 1 st   June for meetings to be held during January-June of the following year, and 1 st December for meetings to be held during July-December of the following year. Grants are offered for meetings in the following fields of natural sciences: agricultural, biological, chemical, engineering, geological and medical sciences. A...

List of Funding Agencies, Sponsoring Agencies and Schemes This is a tentative compilation of different funding agencies, sponsoring agencies and schemes both from government and industries. Web links and details of grants for conducting seminars, workshops, short term courses, faculty development programs, research, travel grant, grant for inviting industry experts, grant for inviting eminent personalities and symposium etc. Academicians can refer, as and when required. There can be more number of sponsoring agencies and more number of schemes, which the faculty members are requested to individually make efforts and apply. The information given below is not complete and may change. Hence the faculty members are also requested to visit the respective notices/web sites for detailed and updated information. 1 All the AICTE approved institutions are eligible for the following grants: 1.            Se...

Dear Viewers, I am introducing the eminent academic speakers in this blog post. Click Here to Watch VIDEOS Excellent speech by Dr. N. Jayasankaran, Former Vice-Chancellor, Kanchi University about "Masterful Teaching". In his sppech professor touched upon the entire sphere of teaching-learning practices. Every teacher much watch this video. MASTERFUL TEACHING Prof. Madhusudhan Govindaraju, State University of New York, Binghamton address about innovative teaching-learning practices in one video lecture INNOVATIVE TEACHING-LEARNING PRACTICES There is another video lecture professor address about BIG DATA and CLOUD COMPUTING RESEARCH TECHNIQUES. BIG DATA AND CLOUD COMPUTING

  Appropriate Teaching Style Sound Technical Skills Easily Approachable Should be a good learner Service minded Respect for others Encouraging nature Honesty Dedication Optimistic Unbiased Helping Tendency Moral Support Humanistic Initiators Forgiving Friendly behavior Self control Passionate Confident Motivators Dress code

            Teaching is a dynamic action involving demands and situations that are frequently changing, and that vary greatly from discipline to discipline. Further within the discipline, teaching-learning transactions necessitate the strategies and innovation based on the subject whether it is related to attitude development, skill development, conceptual-related, knowledge development, logical and mathematical skill etc. It also involves individual engagement and creative responses too. Becoming and being a good teacher involves hands-on experience and sustained critical reflection on one’s own performance.          Educational-Research has indicated that there is not  necessarily a correlation between the number of years a person has taught and his/her expertise. Someone who has taught for twenty years may only have one year’s experience unproductively repeated twenty times. With...