Minutes of meeting
A meeting took place on 15th November 2017 at 2:00pm in the Dental Committee room with the following agenda:
– Review of new Teaching Methodology its implementation and follow up
The following members were present:
- Mr. Manmohan Singh Chawla, Managing Trustee and Chairman for the meeting
- Dr. S.C Mohapatra, Dean academic affairs
- Dr. Vijay Bhalla, Principal, SGT College of Pharmacy
- Dr. Astha Chaudhry, Sub Dean, IQAC
- Dr. Amit Bhardwaj, Sub Dean, IQAC
- Ms. Jyoti, Co-ordinator, IQAC
- Mr. Anil Sharma, Co-ordinator, IQAC
- Dr. Jasdeep Monga, Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences
- Dr. Debashish Chattopadahya, Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences
- Dr. Prachi Saffar Aneja, Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences
- Ms. Mamta Devi, Faculty of Nursing
- Ms. Swati Yadav, Faculty of fashion & Designing
- Ms. Ambika C Nair, faculty of Hotel Management
- Ms. Jyoti Ahlawat, Faculty of Engineering
- Mr. Asad Habeeb, Faculty of Engineering
- Mr. Rambir Joon, Faculty of Engineering
- Mr. Vipin Tiwari, Faculty of Engineering
- Ms. Satnam Kaur, Faculty of Engineering
- Mr. Nishit R Chaki, Faculty of Law
- Ms. Anchal Mittal, Faculty of Law
- Dr. Yogesh Mehta, Faculty of Management
- Dr. Neha Gupta, Faculty of Management
- Dr. Varsha Goel, Faculty of Management
- Dr. Kamlesh Sharma, Faculty of Physical Sciences
- Dr. Shivani Sahdev, Faculty of Behavioural Science
- Dr. Neeraj Gupta, Faculty of Ayurveda
- Dr. Manisha Vats, Faculty of Pharmacy
- Dr. Aparna Gupta, Faculty of Physiotherapy
- Dr. Abhilasha Singh, Centre for Language and Communications
- Dr. Mohinder Singh, Faculty of Agriculture
- Dr. G.B. Bhatt, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences
The members who could not attend the meeting were:
- Ms Priyanka Tyagi, Faculty of Mass Communication
The proceedings were as follows:
- The Chairman addressed the members and asked about their individual experiences in using the Newer teaching modalities, the challenges faced and student perception towards these methods.
- All the members shared their experiences and gave a positive feedback about the use of these newer teaching methods and also expressed that students have become more receptive to these methods due to their increased participation. Also, the weekly assessment has improved the learning quotient and interest among the students.
- The student seminars, group discussions are making students more confident in expressing their views and it has also increased the interaction of students with the faculty thus helping the faculty members identify the weaker students and to plan appropriate initiatives directed towards their better learning.
- Some of the faculty members expressed that the greatest challenge in using these newer methods is that these are time consuming and requires more classes for particular topics and this makes it difficult to complete the syllabus in the required timeframe. Chairman sir addressed that to increase the academic time period some initiatives have been taken by controller of examinations to reduce the examination days by conducting exams both in morning and afternoon. This might give an added time period of 1 month to complete the required academic curriculum.
- Another challenge expressed by faculty was that the some of the students have poor knowledge about basics of computers which make them incapable of preparing presentations for seminars etc. This issue was discussed and it was decided that some initiatives in the form of workshop or foundation courses should be taken up by IQAC.
- Some of the faculties expressed that communication skills of students are weak and sometimes they have to be explained in local language to understand the concept. The chairman sir addressed that it is important to develop the communication skill but the most important task is to develop the confidence among the student so students should be allowed to express themselves even if it is in local language.
- Chairman sir emphasized that it is very important to give practical learning to students especially in engineering, law, management, physical sciences and the faculty members should look for opportunities to give practical learning within the university by posting the students in groups within the departments like purchase, HR, Pharmacy, building site etc.
- The need for revision of syllabus and curriculum was emphasized to remove the obsolete items and to focus on current and futuristic concepts to prepare the students for industry challenges.
- Chairman sir also briefly discussed about the proceedings of Vision 2022 workshop and the proposed convention for vision 2030 to enable the faculty members have a futuristic vision and to develop their course and curricula according to the increasing demands of the market and industry.
- The meeting concluded at 3:45pm with convey of thanks from the chairman