Chancellor Mr. Mittal urged the participants to utilize their learnings from the conference to brigthen their own careers and those of their students.
A two—day International Conference on ‘Global Trends in Teacher Education’ was inaugurated today at Lovely Professional University. LPU Schools of Education & Physical Education have organized the conference with the view have academicians, researchers and policy-makers deliberate enhancing the quality of teacher-education in India. 450+ faculty members from all the states of India and other countries including Thailand, Bangladesh and more have arrived at LPU to particiapte in the conference.
The keynote speakers today were Former Chairperson, National Council for Teacher Education, Prof. Santosh Panda (IGNOU), and Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. A M Moorthy of Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University, Chennai. On this occasion, LPU Chancellor Mr. Ashok Mittal also released a three-volume book ‘Teacher Education in 21st Century’.
He also informed the gathering that of the 100 research papers selected for the international ‘Scopus’ publication 29 belonged to LPU researchers.
During the first technical session of ‘Technologies & Teachers’ Professional Development’, Prof Panda said,“There is a great dearth of real teacher-educators in the country. Teachers must be prepared to make their students think, behave and look like professionals. Classrooms are to be transformed in accordance to new technologies and wants. Teachers must reflect immensely while teaching and after teaching, and get engaged into a variety of activities with their students rather than preparing them to be interactive only.”
Similarly, Prof Dr Moorthy asked teachers to guide their students to be presenters. He said: “Such conferences provide an opportunity for professionals to update their knowledge and adopt the same in the talent identification, and promotion of efficiency among their students.”
Thai teacher- educators, Dr Tanat Titiworatat and Dr.Vichian Puncreobutr, both from St. Theresa International College, Thailand, presented one of the selected research papers ‘Educational Management Readiness in Educating People along Thai-Lao Borders: A Case Study’. The research paper presented by Dr. Mihir Kumar Mallick and Ph.D research Scholar Karamjit Singh of LPU School of Education was on the subject, ‘Academic achievement in social science: relative effect of collaborative learning and dialogue.’
The conference gave participant teachers great takeaways that will surely help them turn out well informed, savvy professionals.
