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teaching profession and continuing such efforts to be able to fulfill the expectation
better and succeed to face the global challenges.

There is another very important challenge for the present day technical teachers. On
the one hand, they have to keep themselves abreast with the latest developments in
their fields or the cutting edge technologies in an effort to be at par with the ‘World-
Class’ and on the other hand, it is equally important to develop the competence to
visualize the indigenous needs creatively and to find appropriate solutions which
are useful and user-friendly. To develop such competence and culture of creative
innovation, one needs proper training and practice. Only when teachers themselves
acquire the skill of proper need analysis, meaningful literature review, problem
framework and creative problem solving, they can carry out meaningful work and
guide the students properly.

A core requirement for effective classroom interaction is that the teachers develop
the art of preparing a systematic lesson plan and a lively classroom interaction.
This is an area of basic teaching competence. Further, appropriate pedagogical
techniques, different modes of learning by the students as well as effective modes
of evaluation of the desired learning outcomes are required to be mastered by the
teachers to be successful. These skills have to form an important part of their training.

Each faculty member has to set the relative pace of the activities in their career. In
the beginning, the faculty member is not comfortable with student engagement,
institutional development and teaching-learning activities. When the faculty
has become comfortable with student development activities and improved
competence in teaching-learning and institutional development, there in quantum
improvement in the technology development and its relevance to industry at
national and international levels and thus contribute effectively for professional
grooming of the student, institutional development and industry relevance.

A need of new domains of “Teacher Training” has also arisen because of increasing
use of ICT tools in the modern teaching-learning process in seeking information and
in knowledge dissemination. There is a deluge of new software, online platforms,
e-modes of teaching-learning, e-sources of information, etc. and the teacher has to
learn how to make judicious use of these tools without getting lost in the quagmire
and not become obsolete is of paramount importance.

1.1.1 NEED FOR ORIENTATION IN HUMAN VALUES

Another very important and yet grossly neglected area of teacher competence
has been in the domain of value inculcation, attitude formation and personality
development. Realization of their social responsibility and the ethical conduct of
the profession is becoming more and more significant.

It is not difficult to appreciate that there exists a strong complimentary between
human values and skills. All the acquired skills are harnessed in accordance with
the value perception. Unless a person inculcates a holistic perception and universal
human values, all the skills are likely to get misused under the influence of greed,
fear, selfishness, jealousy, etc. In the modern times, human beings have been able

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