Best Practices

Best Practices I

Title of the Practice: Skill Enhancement training

Objective:

• To enhance career skill sets of students.
• To make them competent and employable in multinational industries.
• To make the students understand the expectations of employers in the recruitment process through proper training.

The Context

 TJSEC believes that academic education forms the foundation of a student’s learning journey and skills enhancement is equally important in exposing their full potential. Students can bridge the gap between theory and practice, by actively participating in skill-building activities, enhance their employability, foster personal growth, adapt to changing circumstances and build professional networks. The skill enhancement training is designed by the placement cell of TJSEC to enhance the student’s ability and knowledge. The above average students who have exceptional ability to learn beyond are identified as advanced learners. Those students are initiated to participate in order to explore the ways and mould certain traits so that they can cultivate career development. The training contributes a comprehensive growth, employability, limberness, entrepreneurial ability, problem-solving abilities, self-confidence, life skills and academic success. Embracing skills development during studies empowers our advanced learners to become well-rounded individuals, ready to prosper in the competitive and fast evolving world beyond graduation.

 The Practice:

 Institution offers career development programs to the advanced learners in order to place them with higher packages and make them known to the prospective employers according to their aspirations and background. It creates awareness to the young minds by serving them with the proper guidance; infrastructure, opportunities, and encouragement that help them to fulfill their ambitions. The Training programs are composed after a thorough analysis of the current requirements from the corporate sectors and then initiated to the students. A trainer has been appointed by the Institution in order to train the students in the areas like Presentation Skills, Interpersonal Skills, Personal Grooming, Logical Reasoning, Inference, Verbal Reasoning, Situational Conversation, Team Building, Group Discussion, Planning and Goal Setting. Proper course modules are created in order to impart the training which enables the students to gain a competitive edge in the recruitment process, groom their confidence and develop their personality.

 Evidence of Success

•  TJSEC observed a growth in the placement of the students after application of various tools and initiatives.
• 75% of qualified students are placed successfully.
• Improved maximum and average salary package for students.
• Ensuring students getting placement opportunities after their graduation.
• Rise in number of companies visited for campus placement.
• Reached quality placement of interested students.

Problems encountered

• Students must be highly focused to attend the courses related to enhancement training.
• Students required more E-Resources, Books and E-Journals for better learning and research.
• Students required more advanced experimental based learning which will highly enhance towards their caliber in their specialization.
• Students would be happy if more focus is given to them to attend development programs.

BEST PRACTICE –II

Title of the Practice: Remedial measures for slow learners

Objective

• To overcome challenges in accomplishing academic success.
• To foster an optimistic and comprehensive learning environment.
• To enhance Academic Performance of the slow learners.

The Context:

TJSEC is committed to improve the academic performance of the enrolled students, thus, it makes due efforts to augment the academic performance of slow learners. A classroom is a combination of learning competencies and interests. The learning interest and pace of every student is different. They have different showcase to expose their talents. Some students have advanced ability to perform whereas some students will not be able to keep up with other students. It is the sole responsibility of the teacher to identify those students and have compassion and empathy towards those students and identify the deficiencies. In this regard, the institution adopts the remedial measures as one of the techniques which is applied to eliminate the slow learner’s weakness or deficiencies. The use of varied teaching approaches by the institution assist the weak students to improve their performance. These remedial measures will help to bridge the gap in student learning and provide an opportunity to feel free to clear their doubts.

The Practice:

TJSEC supports the slow learners on emotional and academic ground through the structured mechanism to overcome the academic gap. The slow learners are identified on the basis of their performance in previous examinations, continuous monitoring and their willingness to learning in the classroom.

After the identification of the slow learners, every department prepares a timetable accordingly. The students and the faculty members are informed about the schedule and details of remedial classes. The slow learners are given additional study material and encouraged to solve previous examination papers of university. The faculty members remain in regular contact with slow learners. Specific steps such as concept clarification, bilingual explanations, discussions, problem solving activities, slip tests, first hour Tests and last hour Tests are followed in every department. This methodology helps the slow learners in their academic endeavors and overcome their difficulties in scoring good marks in their examination.

 Evidence of Success

• The performance of the students is enhanced in the internal assessment and end semester university exams.
• It reduced the burden of preparation at the time of exams.
• The students’ interaction in the classroom is increased.
• The continuous learning practice is improved.
• Students gain self-confidence to appear for any competitive exam.

Problems encountered:

• The slow learners struggled to concentrate for long time.
• They struggled to remember the lessons.
• They struggled to grasp the concepts due to the language barrier.
• Anna University prescribed Span for every semester is short to cover the syllabus