FIRST BEST PRACTICE
Comprehensive Student Monitoring:
Mentor plays vital role in development of students by providing professional and personal advice to improve his/her participation in academics and cocurricular activities.
Objectives:
Identify and mitigate psychology, societal and other issues faced by students and refer them to experts. Make students self-aware of their strengths and weakness
Context: SSPM College Of Education has well-established system to inculcate discipline, punctuality, regularity, and motivate student-teachers by monitoring their activities supported by organizational structure, policies, and practices.
Practice: Mentor collects personal information of student without touching sensitive issues of forcing any information and provides counselling.
Critical issues are brought to notice of Principal.
Mentor meets Mentees informally outside class hours as well and guide them regarding career options. Students may get lost with too many students in same class from different backgrounds. They face stress of complex course, peer pressure and emotional immaturity. Class-in charges, Principal, regularly monitors, enquires and counsel students and parents. Principal to review punctuality and regularity of students. Weight age of five marks is given to attendance in internal assessment to improve student’s regularity.
Responsibilities of Mentor: Meet group of student’s at-least ones in a month. Continuously monitor, counsel, guide and motivate students in all academic or personal pursuits and maintain its record.
Evidence of Success: Enhancement in performance of students due to regular monitoring and discipline is evidence of success.
SECOND BEST PRACTICE
Visit to Mentally Retarded Boys- Girls school: –
Sahjeevan Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, College of Education Principal, Staff and students visits to Parishram Mentally Retarded Boys and Girls residential School, Parola. Students takes cleanliness drive there. Our students interact with the Mentally retarded children and understands their problems. College distributes food and sweets to the children to that school. Our college students organize various activities for the school students such as storytelling, songs, entertainment. We provide some grocery for the school.