This Faculty Development Program, conducted
at the Human Resource Development Center
from October 5th to 10th, 2015, was
co-ordinated by Dr. Anuradha Sovani,
Professor and Head, Department of Psychology
at SNDT WU, Mumbai. The theme of the course
was Role of the teacher in Enhancing Student
Potential. The entire training was very
interactive and hands on, and was
appreciated by the 43 participants.
The program focused on handling student
stress, a session conducted by Ms. Anita
Sanu, Assistant Professor, SNDT WU
Department of Psychology, and a session on
Building Resilience , wherein the trainer
Dr. Mrinalini Purandare, Associate professor
in the same Department, drew heavily on the
Positive psychology perspective.
A computer laboratory based session helped
teachers understand the Computer as a
resource for teaching, learning and
research, and was conducted by Dr. Savanur,
with his wide experience in the field of
Library Science.
Dr. Anuradha Sovani, the course co-ordinator
, conducted two half day sessions on two
days of the training course, focusing on
helping teachers deal with their own
emotions, and another session on helping
students handle their emotions. She used an
REBT and CBT based perspective.
There were sessions on the Sports Psychology
perspective and the Indian Psychology
perspective in Enhancing student potential,
conducted respectively by Dr. Neeta Tatke,
Vice Principal Ruparel college and Doctoral
alumna of SNDT University , and by Ms.
Mrinalini Rao.
Dr. Nilesh Thakre, Associate professor,
Department of Psychology, SNDT WU, conducted
an interactive half day session on teachers
as transformational leaders.
A session by Dr. Tessie George of BARC on
unleashing student potential drew the week
to a close, and in the interim, the teacher
participants also made presentations in the
form of group discussions on predetermined
topics, and were rated by Dr. Geeta Joshi,
another Doctoral alumna of SNDTWU. |
