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A Comprehensive Training Policy for Technical Teachers

Contents
• Overview of technical education -the present scenario and emerging challenges;
excellence in technical education – criteria for quality education.

• Domains of Learning- Cognitive, Affective and Psycho motor as per revised Bloom’s
Taxonomy; Cognitive process dimension and knowledge dimension; program
objectives and learning outcomes at different levels.

• Psychology of learning and motivation; principles of instruction and learning;
understanding the teaching-learning process.

• Four pillars of learning proposed by UNESCO-learning to know; learning to do;
learning to be and learning to live together.

• Interpreting curriculum and its characteristics; curriculum and instruction; curricular
and extra-curricular modes of student-teacher interaction; alternative modes of
learning; curriculum implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

• Need for co-relating knowledge to professional practice, research & development.

Expected understanding
• Analyze the issues and challenges in the domain of technical education, especially
concerning quality and excellence.

• Formulate learning outcomes at different levels in all domains of learning and
explain the application of cognitive process and knowledge dimensions.

• Apply the concepts, principles and processes of instruction and learning to ensure
effective implementation of the curriculum.

5.2 MODULE 2: PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND
SUSTAINABILITY

Rationale
The technical education system should be able to equip the student with not only
technical/ managerial competency, but also professional values, ethics and moral
values. Professional ethics and sustainable development need to be inculcated in
inductee teacher who should play a role model to peers and students.

Contents

• Understanding the essential complementarities of values and skills.
• Understanding the human reality correctly and the inherent interconnectedness
and order in the whole existence.

• Guru-Shishyaparampara- relationship.
• Developing a holistic perception of human happiness; prosperity; life-goals, needs
and relationships; ethical human behavior Sarvejana Sukhino Bhavantu
• Mentoring and counseling; personality development.

• Understanding the ecology and basic parameters of sustainable development.

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