The higher education system is passing through a transformational phase to cope up with the global trends. National Education Policy (NEP)-2020 is a light house for this journey of transformation. Quality teachers’ community is always a potential force to enforce the changes and plays a pivotal role in development of knowledge building, knowledge sharing and its dissemination.
In the world of increasing change,
complexity and uncertainty, skills of the past will not serve us today, or
tomorrow. Technological advances have multiplied since the Industrial
Revolution, while social change and demographic diversity give rise to ever
more cross pollinating innovators. Each new generation experiences a world
changing faster than ever before. In addition to, digitalization, other high
impact megatrends are Globalization, Sustainability and Automation. Along with
the strong digital skills, the new skills required by Education 4.0 will be
complex problem-solving, critical thinking, creativity, people management, teamwork
and collaboration, emotional intelligence, judgement and decision-making,
service orientation, negotiation, project management, cognitive flexibility and
motivated, energized, capable faculty forms the foundation.
The objective of ATAL i.e., AICTE’s
Training and Learning Academy is to impart quality Faculty Development
Programmes (FDP) for faculty so that
(1)
Sound domain
knowledge and associated skills of the subject.
(2)
Its application
with the prevailing practice scenario in real life with industry connect.
(3)
Pedagogy-requisite
teaching skills needed to scientifically plan for instructional delivery,
communicate the knowledge and skills to the students in an efficient manner and
assess teaching-learning effectiveness.
(4)
Skills for need
analysis, meaningful literature review, problem framework and creative problem
solving.
(5)
Life skills so
that they are motivated and fascinated to acquire knowledge and associated
skills.
(6)
Institutional
Leadership skills for senior faculty to be ready for academic leadership.
(7)
Understanding
their roles in community wellbeing, national building and also their own career
development.
Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe, Chairman,
AICTE launched the ATAL’s FDP Calendar 2022-23 for redesigned, collaborative
and learner centric faculty development programmes in the august presence of Prof. M. P. Poonia, Vice chairman and Prof. Rajive Kumar, Member
Secretary, AICTE.
Eminent experts Sh. Jaswinder Ahuja, Corporate Vice President and MD, Cadence Design Systems, India, an industry leader who is passionate about academia laid emphasis on experiential learning, internships and change with accelerated pace of change. Prof. Rajita Kulkarni, President, Sri Sri University, renowned academician focused on learning agility, flexibility to change and teachers being role models. Dr. Manu K. Vora, Chairman & President, Business Excellence, Inc., USA deliberated further on finesse of the redesigned FDPs, engaging learners, innovative pedagogy, article summary from reputed journals and importance of valuable take homes in the form of reflection journals.
AICTE ATAL FDPs 2022-23 Calendar Launch, 25 July, 2022 YouTube
