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Contents

Teaching & Training

• Teaching: Concept, Objectives, Levels of teaching (Memory, Understanding, Reflective), Characteristics, and basic requirements.

• Teaching methods, new methods of teaching (approach).

• Utilization of basic teaching and basic skills of teaching.

• Understanding Learner’s characteristics: Characteristics of adolescent and adult learners (Academic, Social, Emotional, and Cognitive), Individual differences.

• Factors affecting teaching: Teacher, Learner, Support material, Instructional facilities, Learning environment, Institution.

• Methods of clinical teaching/bedside teaching.

• Learning styles – VARK (Visual, Aural/Auditory, Reading/Writing, Kinesthetic).

Communication

• Communication: Meaning, types, characteristics, and purpose.

• Effective communication: Verbal, Non-verbal, Inter-cultural, Group, Classroom communication.

• Barriers to effective communication.

• Mass media and society.

• Teacher-Learner communication.

Classroom Management

• Classroom management.

• Practical classroom management.

• Psychology and classroom management.

• Personal approach to classroom management.

• Ensuring engagement & motivation in the classroom.

• Routines & technology in the classroom.

• Forming positive learning environments.

• Disciplinary problems.

• Management strategies for diverse classrooms.

• Managing classroom and other learning environments.

Assessment Methods

• Concepts and principles of learning assessment.

• Evaluation in Choice Based Credit System in higher education.

• Computer-based testing.

• Innovations in evaluation systems.

• Assessment of clinical competence.

• Role of observation and feedback.

• Structured oral exam, long case, short case, OSCE.

• Assessment types: Formative, summative, periodic.

Information and Communication Technology

• Advancement in educational technologies.

• ICT: General abbreviations and terminology.

• Usage of Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio & Video conferencing.

• ICT and governance methods of teaching in higher education: Teacher-centered vs. Learner-centered; Offline vs. Online (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs).

• Teaching support system: Traditional, modern, ICT-based.

Educational Psychology

• Educational psychology as a discipline.

• Role in learning and teaching.

• Cognitive development: Brain and cognitive development.

• Guidelines for teaching: Piaget’s theory, Vygotsky’s sociocultural perspective, Bronfenbrenner’s social context, Self and moral development.

Andragogy in Education

• Meaning, need, and importance of andragogy.

• Principles of andragogy.

• Characteristics of adult learners.

• Competencies of self-directed learning.

Learning and Pedagogy

• Concepts and meaning of pedagogy.

• Steps of pedagogical analysis.

• Concepts of critical pedagogy.

• Development of pedagogy.

• Need and importance of pedagogy.

• Formulation of learning objectives, teaching-learning.