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UNITS

Contents

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Teaching & Training

• Teaching: Concept, Objectives, Levels of teaching (Memory, Understanding and 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 related to: Teacher, Learner, Support material, Instructional facilities, Learning environment and Institution.
• Methods of clinical teaching/ bedside teaching
• Learning styles - VARK – Visual, Aural/Auditory, Reading/Writing & Kinesthetic

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Communication

• Communication: Meaning, types, characteristics and purpose of communication.
• Effective communication: Verbal and Non-verbal, Inter-Cultural and group Communications, Classroom communication
• Barriers to effective communication
• Mass-Media and Society
• Teacher-Learner communication
• Doctor-Patient communication

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Classroom Management

• Classroom Management
• Practical Classroom Management
• Psychology & 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 (clinical, OPD, Practical labs, skill labs, community outreach)

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Assessment Methods

• Concepts and principles of Learning assessment
• Evaluation in choice Based Credit System in Higher education
• Computer-based Testing
• Consideration of Innovations in evaluation systems
• Assessment of clinical competence
• Role of observation and feedback in assessment
• Structured oral exam, long case, short case and Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE)
• Assessment Types: Formative and summative assessment; periodic assessment etc.

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Educational Technologies

• Advancement in educational technologies
• Information and Communication Technology (ICT): General abbreviations and terminology
• Usage of Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio and Video-conferencing
• ICT and Governance Methods of teaching in Institutions of higher learning: Teacher-centered vs. Learner-centered methods; Off- line vs. Online methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs etc.).
• Teaching Support System: Traditional, Modern, and ICT based.

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Educational Psychology

• Educational psychology as a discipline
• Role of educational psychology - learning and teaching today
• Cognitive development: Brain and cognitive development,
• Guidelines to teaching: Piaget’s theory of cognitive development,
• Vygotsky's Sociocultural perspective,
• Bronfenbrenner’s social context, Self and moral development

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Andragogy in Education

• Meaning of Andragogy
• Need and importance of Andragogy
• Principles of Andragogy
• Characteristics of Adult Learners
• Competencies of Self-Directed Learning

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Learning and Pedagogy

• Concepts of Pedagogy
• Meaning of Pedagogy
• Steps of Pedagogical Analysis
• Concepts of Critical Pedagogy
• Development of the concept of pedagogy
• Need and importance of Pedagogy
• Formulations of Learning Objectives, Teaching-Learning