20091215 – Creativity in Effective Teaching - Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad. Creativity in Effective Teaching was the topic for one of the sessions in the Staff Development Programme on “Enhancing Professional and Instructional Skills of Young Faculty” [from 11-12-2009 to 18-12-2009]. Everyone is creative – Teachers must be more so. Teaching must be effective. Creativity improves effectiveness. Teachers must be motivated to continuously search for opportunities to improve creativity in their presentations. Further, they must motivate the students to improve their creativity. This was the main theme of the presentation. Five Power Point presentations were used: 20091215 – [1] – Creativity 20091215 – [2] – Effective Teaching 20091215 – [3] – Creativity 20091215 – [4] – Excellence, Creativity and Effective Teaching 20091215 – [5] – Some points for Discussion The lecture was mainly in English, but keeping in view, the nature of the topic and a particular point to be stressed, Telugu / Hindi were also liberally used. The live recording of the speech can be listened to / downloaded, by visiting www.archive.org and searching for Prof. V. Viswanadham, [and locating this particular item]. Further, if the displayed results are sorted by date added, it would be easier to locate this particular speech. It would be better to have a view of the power point presentations, either before or while listening to the uploaded audio version. The power point presentations can be viewed at www.scribd.com (please search for Viswam.vangapally4581), and / or www.slideshare.net/viswanadham. It would be better to download and then view the presentations, because the animations can be better seen. There are many other speeches on related topics, along with power point presentations, and all these can be freely listened to / viewed at the sites referred above. You would definitely find some variety and difference in the presentation – as I consider it my duty to make the presentations in a different manner, each time the topic is discussed. This is only to assure you that you can take the risk of listening to the lectures on the same topic given to different audiences, at different places. It is also added that you may feel free and make unrestricted use of the power point presentations. Please help me to reach your friends, through you, so that my idea of motivating teachers to become better teachers can reach many more interested persons. Your feedback will be highly appreciated.

1. Some Points for Discussion Prof. V. Viswanadham

2. Everything starts with THINKING

3. Embrace Challenges as OPPORTUNITIES

4. Stretch yourself ~

5. Experience New things.

6. Probe The unknown.

7. Do something Out of the ordinary.

8. Don’t accept Limiting thoughts.

9. Be willing To do something NEW

10. Explore Opposites and alternatives.

11. When you believe something is impossible , Your mind goes to work for you to prove why.

12. But, When you believe really believe, something can be done Your mind goes to work for you and help to find the ways to do it.

13. Any Questions ?

14. Any Questions ? Please write them down and pass on to me. Thank You

15. Can We Work As A Team ?

16. Can we work as a Team ? Why not try and prepare a Power point presentation for a relatively small unit of the syllabus ?

17. Can we work as a Team ? Why not try TEAM TEACHING for a relatively small unit of the syllabus ?

18. Can we work as a Team ? Why not try BRAIN STORMING and identify ways for reviewing the teaching styles and make Suggestions for improvement ?

19. Can we work as a Team ? Why not try introducing the same Topic at least in 3 different ways ?

20. Can we work as a Team ? Why not conduct Workshops / Seminars DEPARTMENT-WISE for exploring further the possibility of Improving Creativity in Teaching ?

21. Can we work as a Team ? Why not conduct DISCUSSIONS DEPARTMENT-WISE for exploring further the possibility of Developing study material for backward / Forward Integration ?

22. Can we work as a Team ? Why not request a colleague to attend our class and give us the benefit of Constructive Evaluation , to improve the quality of our teaching ?

23. Can we work as a Team ? Why not conduct DISCUSSIONS DEPARTMENT-WISE for exploring further the possibility of INCREASING STUDENT PARTICIPATION ?

24. Can we work as a Team ? Why not conduct DISCUSSIONS DEPARTMENT-WISE for exploring further the possibility of CREATING STUDENT TEAMS EITHER WITH SENIORS AND / OR PEERS ?

25. Why not attempt now to identify more such areas and activities for improving the quality of our teaching ?

26. Why not ?

27. In case YOU liked this speech and presentation ~ for listening to more speeches, Please Visit: Visit: http:// www.archive.org and Search for Prof. V. Viswanadham and locate this item.

28. In case YOU liked this presentation ~ for viewing more presentations, Please visit : www.scribd.com and search for Viswam.vangapally4581 Also, www.slideshare.net/viswanadham In case YOU want to give some feedback / contact me : [email_address] Prof. V. Viswanadham ~ [040 – 2722 3383] A BIG Thank You