Faculty Induction Programme (FIP) GURU-DAKSHTA 

[Duration: 24 working days & 144 hrs]

Introduction:

The Induction Programme for training Faculty & Academic Staff in Central and State Universities, Centrally Funded technical Institutions, and Degree & PG Degree colleges will familiarise them in their roles as freshly inducted university teachers. It will orient them on various generic aspects of teaching learning, instructional methodologies, assessment and evaluation techniques, ICT enabled teaching learning, and equip them with knowledge of University rules and regulations, basics of governance and administration.

Rationale of Faculty Induction Programme:

1. To sensitise and motivate the faculty to adopt learner centered approaches, ICT integrated learning and new pedagogic approaches to teaching- learning, assessment tools in higher education.

2. Implement curriculum reforms in the context of interdisciplinarity, multi-disciplinarity and applied approaches to knowledge.

3. Adopt flexible evaluation processes which are more scientific to evaluate multiple skills and competencies of students.

4. Promote four possible types of faculty development: personal (interpersonal skills, career development, and life planning issues); instructional (course design and development, instructional technology); organisational (ways to improve the institutional environment to better support teaching); and professional (ways to support faculty members so that they fulfil their multiple roles of teaching, research, and service).

5. To promote academic excellence, teaching innovation, research capabilities and leadership skills.

6. To improve the professional capability and performance of teachers to deliver effective and quality learning.

Duration:

The entire programme will be online/residential mode, in order to complete all the modules, it will ideally require 170 to 175 hours, including some project work and field visits. An ideal duration of the programme will therefore be approximately 1 month (excluding Sunday and National Holidays).

Title of Modules:

Module 1: Higher Education and its Ecosystem

Module 2: Curriculum designing, Outcome based learning and Choice based credit system

Module 3: Teaching, Learning and Assessment

Module 4: Technology for Teaching and assessment of I-generation

Module 5: Personal-Emotional Development and Counselling

Module 6: Research, Professional Development and Academic Leadership

Module 7: Academic Integrity

Module 8: Constitutional Values, Human Rights & Fundamental Duties

Module 9: Environmental Consciousness and Sustainable Development Goals

Module 10: Strategic Planning and Management

Eligibility Criteria:

All in service teachers in higher education working in universities and colleges that are included under Section 2(f) of the UGC Act, even though they may not yet be fit under Section 12 (B), may be invited to participate in the MM capacity building training programme. The teachers of colleges that do not yet come within the purview of Section 2(f), but have been affiliated to a university for at least five years, will be permitted to participate in these programmes. Faculty Members working in Institutes of National importance are also eligible to participate. Incentive for Faculty Members.