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The institute organized Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on 7th December on
the topic ‘Creativity and Innovation in Professional Teaching’. The resource
persons were Prof. Somesh Dhamija, and Prof. Aruna Dhamija, Institute of
Business Management, GLA University, Mathura.
Prof. Somesh started with general discussion about why Education is seen as
central in fostering creative and innovative skills. He told that creativity in
education has more to do with the process than with the product, and focus is
therefore on the development of thinking and cognitive skills.
He opined that the teachers should leverage the upsurge of new media and
technologies that students use in their everyday lives that can further be
exploited in creative and innovative ways. Teachers need to develop creative
approaches and find new methods, solutions and practices to grab the attention
of the students. He focused on the use of methods/games to explain the practical
application of the concepts stating that it is need of the hour.
He shared many insightful videos highlighting the importance of creativity and
innovation. He discussed Bloom’s Taxonomy which is a hierarchical ordering of
cognitive skills that can, among countless other uses, help teachers teach and
students learn.
Prof. Aruna Dhamija elaborated that a batch is a heterogeneous mixture of
students, each student has different pace, aptitude and attitude towards
learning. A teacher should therefore be tactful and flexible in his/her
methodology of teaching. She emphasized that teaching is a technique which
involves preparation of study material, case studies, stories, examples,
exercises, activities, and innovative methods. She explained that these factors
play an important role in grounding for creativity and innovation to a thriving
environment, proposing a series of central factors which can support the shift
towards more creative and innovative education.
Prof. Aruna conducted a very interactive session, wherein she asked the
participants to open the doors of their mind and think differently. She asked
riddles to the participants, made them play games and narrated stories making
the session all the more fun and interesting. In the end she told that teachers
should imbibe qualities like originality, rationality, different thinking and
inculcate passion and creativity in everything they do.
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