Welcome..

This website is created by,

Dr.D.Kavitha,
Associate Professsor, EEE,
Thiagarajar College of Engineering,
Madurai – 625015,
Tamil Nadu,
India.

MY TEACHING PHILOSOPHY : 

  

My vision for Engineering Education in India is to achieve World Class Quality Engineering and Technical Education with strong ethical values. My teaching, learning and research missions contribute to my vision.

My teaching mission as an educator is imparting Engineering and Technical knowledge and skills to the students in Electrical domain with active learning strategies and makes learning a joyful experience for them.  My learning mission is to have a sound knowledge in the course handled. My research mission is to generate new ideas and solutions to my areas of Electrical power and Engineering education through innovative projects and publish them in refereed journals.

Students need a facilitator rather than a teacher to attain their educational objectives. I endeavor making my class an arena for students to expand their knowledge, skill and attitude to attain the required outcomes. I found active learning methodologies and flipped classrooms help in meeting the challenges through my experience. Also, I strongly believe that the homework assignments and projects will provide opportunities for students to promote their problem-solving and critical thinking skills. Hence, I plan each course before its commencement, in a detailed manner incorporating student centered learning strategies. With a proper feedback mechanism, continuous improvement is achieved in content delivery and assessment. This makes me as an “adapting” teacher towards new technologies.

Areas I need to improve are to be expertise in content domain to design my course better and communication with experts.  I need to improve myself in the updating of current technology and taking them to the students. I improve myself through face to face, blended and online learning programs, learning through collaborations with experts, hands-on experience in relevant hardware and software modules and literature readings. I target to complete at least one course conducted by higher learning institutions through MOOCs and to interact with two new experts per semester.  The success of my efforts is great and to contribute more, I wish my learning and research missions are aligned with my teaching mission.

To improve my skills as an educator, I continuously plan and adopt innovative content delivery and assessment methods to achieve desired outcomes. I undergo pedagogy programs. The education practices adopted will be shared with peers for discussions.

    My immediate goals include

  • Improvement in teaching learning process (TLP)
  • Doing innovative research in the core and engineering education areas.
  • Meditating in the sense of heartfulness.

My long term goals are to achieve

  • Excellence in both engineering domain research and engineering education research by doing granted projects, publishing refereed journals and conferences.
  • Stress free handling of administrative works.
  • Heartfelt satisfaction as an educator and a good human.
Acknowlegement : This website is the fruitful result of “Four Week AICTE approved FDP by IIT Bombay on – Use of ICT in Education for Online and Blended Learning” conducted by IIT Bombay. Learnt new ICT tools that can be applied for education and quite happy with this course. Apart from learning, a joy of teaching is felt from heart by creating own videos and websites.