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Unit 21: Application of Educational Management in Academic Areas

2. To develop teaching skills that would help the teacher to improve his teaching effectiveness, in Notes
addition to employ several teaching techniques to cater to the needs of students at large, medium
and small groups.
3. To help the teacher improve his ability to communicate effectively in the classroom through the
use of educational technology devices and to ensure better student participation in the teaching
learning situation.
4. To enable the teacher to provide guidance to his students in their learning problems such as
library reading and reference work, self-study, and preparing for examination, and in developing
the all-round personality of the students.
5. To understand ‘the problems that arise in management of the students in the classes and work
out strategies to solve them.
6. To give special assistance to those students who are not upto the mark in their studies by
diagnosing becauses for the drawbacks and providing remedial teaching as per their needs.
7. To introduce the fresh teacher to the techniques of action research and small-scale
experimentation so that he can handle effectively the particular problems that may arise in his
own classes and follow procedures to manage these by this own efforts so that he can find the
effectiveness of his own teaching techniques.
The in-service education programme can take up several forms and patterns depending on the
purpose for which it is conducted, the resources and infrastructure available and the duration of the
courses. Some of the more common types are as follows :
(1) Content Course.
(2) Refresher Courses.
(3) Summer Institute.
(4) Short Term Course.
(5) Conference Technique.
(6) Seminar Techniques.
(7) Workshop Technique, and
(8) Symposium Technique.
(9) Panel Discussion.
The detailes of these protramme and techniques have been given in the following paragraphs :
(l) Content Courses
Content Courses are conducted to upgrade the teachers in their specialisation in terms of
knowledge of the latest developments, current issues and trends, their application and their
relevance to college teaching. These courses are organized with the help of competent resource
persons in a particular area of discipline, as the competency of the resource persons to a great
extent, contributes to the success of the programme. During summer holidays content courses
are organised for a longer duration of 4 to 6 weeks and this gives time to really upgrade the
teachers in subject content.
(2) Refresher Courses
Refresher Courses are generally organized to give an opportunity to teachers to refresh and
improve their knowledge of the subjects they teach and widen their experience in the
methodology of teaching. These courses enable the teachers to keep abreast of progress in
educational theories and practices. The duration of the refresher course is generally three to
four or five days.

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