Best Practice: 1
1. Title of
the Practice:- Mentor-Mentee Group
2. Objectives
of the Practice: - The objective of the scheme to encourage the students to
discuss their problems with the teacher and escape from suffering in the
college by any
Problem.
3. The Context:
- A Mentor is a person who has professional and life experience and who
Voluntarily agrees to help a Mentee develop skills, competencies or goals. Put
another
way, a Mentor is an Advisor and Role Model who is willing to invest in the
mentee's
personal growth and professional development.
4. The
Practice: - When a student takes admission in the college, he does not know
anything
about the culture of the college. He/she faces problems during the working
hours of
college. So college has appointed a Mentor Teacher every 20 to 30 students per
group.
The
students are called mentees. A Special Lecture is allotted in the Time table
for the
Mentor Class. The students share the problem with the Mentor.
Mentor try every possible way to solve the problems and share his/her thinking
and
experiences with the mentees which helps them to tackle the problems. After
the
satisfaction of the student, he/she takes another problem. Sometimes a mentor
chooses a
topic on social awareness and discusses this.
5. Evidence of
Success: - The students wander in the campus with full confidence. They
perform their social responsibilities. They do not hesitate while facing any
problem and tell
to
their mentor. The environment of the college campus is friendly.
6. Problems
Encountered and Resources Required: - Sometimes student hesitates to share
his/her problem in front of many students. He cannot express his feeling with
his/her mentor and this thing restricts him/her to solve the problem. Being a
mentor, he/she faces one of these challenges when dealing with his mentee:
Assessing Mentee's
background (knowledge and skills).
Identifying Mentee's
motivation.
Dealing with Mentee's
inexperience (knowledge and skills).
Financial help to
Mentees.
Building Mentee's
confidence level.
Setting limits and
boundaries for the mentor/mentee relationship.
Best
Practice -2
1. Title: -
Use of Smart Technology with Eco- Friendly Attitude
2. Objectives of
the Practice
Smart Technology helps
in the holistic development of the students in the present challenging and
competitive scenario of the society. The main goals of the practice are
· To
use smart technology in teaching- learning process to make the learning more
comprehensive and interesting.
·
To teach the students the use of internet to enhance their knowledge.
· To
aware the students of rural vicinity about the use of Internet in day to day
life and to prepare them for competitive exams.
·
To aware the students about the use of Smart Technology with an eco-friendly
attitude.
· To
develop a paperless work culture in the campus by introducing Whatsapp group
and email to circulate official notices.
·
To make the campus lush green.
·
To inculcate an eco-friendly attitude among the students with a motto “Save
Earth Save Life”.
3. The Context
·
Technology can be used to improve teaching-learning process, to enhance the
knowledge of the students for competitions and to make the teaching more
interactive.
·
An eco- friendly attitude is essential today to live a happy and healthy life.
·
Technology makes the learning comprehensive and easy.
·
Use of Technology makes the life easy and comfortable.
·
It develops a relation among the students and the teachers.
·
A protective use of technology and a clean environment are necessary to live a
happy and healthy life. If we don't save the environment the technology is
useless so in order to save life on this planet first we have to save it.
·
Technology develops employability and smartness among the students.
4. The
Practice
·
The institute has introduced smart classrooms, smart auditorium, smart library,
computer labs for the students to acquaint them with
the digital world.
·
Internet facilities are provided to the students in the library to improve the
standard of education and to promote research among the students.
·
To develop an eco-friendly attitude among the students the paper of
environmental studies is compulsory and there is an Assistant Professor of
environmental studies to teach and assign the environmental projects to the
students.
·
NSS units organize various programs to aware the students about the current
environmental needs and one day camp on “Tree Plantation” is organized to
instill the habit of growing more trees among the students.
·
There is a botanical garden, rain harvesting system, solid waste management
system, vermin compost system and various medicinal plants in the college
campus.
· The
Alumni Association has also been registered to update the students about the
experiences and achievements of their seniors and to take their feedback in
order to improve the institute.
·
Competitions are organized from time to time on technology and environmental
awareness by various committee and departments.
5. Evidence of
success
·
Online admission process, e-salary system, biometric attendance, digital administrations
have been practiced.
· The members are
connected through a WhatsApp group.
The success is also
reflected in the organization of Science Exhibitions held at college and
district level. Smart projects are prepared by the students with the help of
teachers and internet.
· Almost all the
students have created their email- id.
· Teachers are
connected to the students with help of social media groups.
· Teachers are to
deliver their lecture in the form of power point presentation or videos.
· The
eco-friendly nature is evidenced directly from the lush green view of the
campus.
· The
installation of rain water harvesting system, and proposal of solar system are
some initiatives to make the college campus eco- friendly.
· Students are
made aware about eco friendly environment through various
activities.
· Students have
qualified various competitive exams and they have won positions in various
competitions.
Problems Encountered
and Resources Required
· The students
are from rural areas, therefore, it is very difficult to teach them the use of
the internet as they don't have Smart phones and internet access.
· The speed of Wi-Fi
is also a big problem.
· No alternate
arrangement for power breakdown.
· The college has
no autonomous power to install solar energy system.