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A Comprehensive Training Policy for Technical Teachers

The mentor will assist the teacher in his/ her endeavor to pick up the right practices
on curriculum implementation and evaluation etc. The teacher in the laboratory
course will have to understand the laboratory class handling and also develop
new experiments to understand the working of laboratory equipment, process
of conduct of laboratory experiments and student assessment. The faculty, in
this term, will also be required to practice communication skills by preparing and
presenting a paper on state-of-the-art of a subject chosen under the guidance of
the mentor. The teacher will also be expected to prepare a mock funding proposal
for a research project to be submitted to a funding agency.

The teacher will also be undergoing four weeks of training in an industry/research
laboratories/field organization as decided by the mentor. The mentor will choose
the training organization to ensure coordination with the subject discipline of the
programme of the teachers. The mentor should also make sure that the training is
organized and supervised in the right perspective.

Broad guidelines suggesting the mode of content and evaluation of both the terms
i.e., Term I and Term II are given in section 8.

7.0 IN-SERVICE TRAINING NEEDS AT VARIOUS LEVELS

Continuous knowledge updating through suitably designed refresher courses will always
be needed at all levels of the teaching career. These will mostly be subject-specific in the
area of specialization.

Also, it will mandate for these teachers to undergo MOOCs in a phased manner as discussed
in FIP as well as to provide requisite training modules to train the in-service teachers for
the responsibilities required to be carried out in their next professional cadres and also
for the specialized inputs such as Intellectual Property Right (IPR) issues, sustainable
development, action research, curricular review, infrastructure development etc.

7.1 SOME DETAILS OF THE IN-SERVICE TRAINING
PROGRAMS AT VARIOUS STAGES OF TEACHING CAREER

(a) Stage 1– Faculty Induction Program (already described above)

(b) Stage 2– During Lecturer/ Assistant Professorship - having experience of 5-10 years
• Refresher Modules for knowledge updating, newer developments and thrust areas
in the concerned fields.

• Training for research guidance, sponsored project planning and conduction,
consultancy etc.

• Training for lab development and preparing manuals.
• Training on IPR issues, patenting, technology transfer/dissemination and ethical
issues in R & D.

• Training on organization of conferences, workshops, symposia etc.

• Training in basic principles of education technology through MOOCs.

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