7 Day Faculty Development Program

IQAC of ST PAULS COLLEGE, Bangalore organized a Seven-Day Virtual Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Exploring Dynamics of the Classroom – NEP and NAAC Perspective from 21 to 28 January 2022. The objective of the progamme was to provide an avenue for teaching fraternity to update classroom preparedness in the context of NEP and to get familiarise themselves with NEP and NAAC oriented classroom practices.

The inaugural session commenced with opening remarks by Dr Babu V, Coordinator IQAC, ST PAULS COLLEGE, Bangalore. Dr Raghavendra Venugopal, the chief guest of the inauguration spoke about the immense possibilities that the NEP has opened up for the teachers and his deliberations were ably complemented by Dr Raj Kumar Singh who spoke on Redefining Teaching and Learning in an NEP Perspective. The various resource persons from academia dealt with a diverse range of themes such as: translating research to the classroom tools, mental health of the teachers, tools for hybrid classroom, academic writing and holistic and liberal education.
The faculty present enthusiastically participated in specially curated pre-session surveys, brainstorming, breakout room discussions, designing content using online tools and responding to prompts on chat, they also proactively sought clarifications from the resource persons in real time. The chief guest of the valedictory function Dr. Dhruba J Saikia reminded teachers to teach with love. Over 400 participants attended the programme.