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12 GURU-DAKSHTA Faculty Induction Programme (FIP)
Module 3: Teaching, Learning and Assessment

Objective:
Enable teachers to equip themselves with high quality teaching, learning and assessment.

Expected Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the module, participants will be able to:

- Understand overarching principles of effective pedagogy and critically analysis of different
methods of teaching

- Devise and recognize different innovative strategies for variable pace of learning
- Appreciate the various approaches and tools of assessment and evaluation

- Explore the linkages between pedagogy, assessment and learning
- Use and integrate technology platforms for teaching, learning and evaluation.

- Develop effective lesson planning to address learning outcomes of the programme
Focus areas/ themes:

3 Understanding the realm of Teaching: Teaching as a profession (competencies & requirements),
Teaching as reflective practice, Teaching as a complex/dynamic activity and metacognition of
own teaching

3 Understanding role, appropriate use and blending of technology in teaching

3 Strategies of teaching: Teacher-centred and student-centred; their strengths and limitations;
Customised strategies; need, importance and potential of teachers in developing teaching
strategies, constructivist and critical pedagogy for connecting to daily life and larger social
issues

3 Lesson Planning - Basic idea, logic and different types, skills and techniques for writing lesson
plans
3 Effective classrooms: Time management, use of humor in teaching, balancing firmness and
friendliness

3 Multicultural classrooms and inclusive pedagogies
3 Learning and the learner: Concept of learning, Perspectives of learning- Behaviorist, Cognitive
and constructivist; Individual difference, Learning styles, Role of cultural relevance on
learning

3 Understanding students and their needs - Students with divergent socio-cultural backgrounds,
students from marginalised communities, Students with special educational needs, Students
with learning difficulties, Students with extraordinary abilities - designing inclusive strategies
for meeting needs of all types of students

3 Mentoring individual students and student groups- skills and strategies
3 Assessment and Evaluation: Assessment for learning and assessment of learning, Understanding
the difference between assessment and evaluation, Formative and summative assessments,
Importance of objective assessment, Development of tools for objective assessment, innovative
Classroom assessment strategies