A one-day
Faculty Development Program on
‘Holistic Process in Teaching Learning Using Neuro-Linguistic Programming’ was
organised by the Directorate of Higher Education(DHE), Government of Goa in
association with the State Project Directorate of Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha
Abhiyaan (RUSA) and MES College of Arts & Commerce, Zuarinagar. A total of
45 teachers participated in the program.
The resource person
for the program was Prof. D H Rao, Director, Cambridge Institute of Technology,
Bangalore. The resource person emphasised that teachers need to incorporate a
transformational approach in their teaching as education is a process of
transmission and transition and that the focus of teaching should stress on
experiential learning.
He explained that in
NLP, Neuro refers to the brain aspects of our behaviour, Linguistic refers to
the way language is used to communicate and Programming refers to external
behaviour and reactions as a result of programming. Through Neuro-Linguistic
Programming, Prof. Rao explained how teachers can be effective and thus
transform education. Through anecdotes and a sense of humour, Prof. Rao
elaborated how NLP helps in managing stress, understanding one’s ego level,
building rapport with people, analyzing one’s creative ability, enhancing one’s
communication, enhancing one’s circle of influence and motivation, enhancing
one’s self-efficacy and overcoming unproductive and unhealthy habits.
The
resource person also explained the implications of having right and left
brain-oriented teachers and right and left brain-oriented students and how to
deal with the situation accordingly so as to make classroom teaching effective.
