Faculty orientation workshop at GUB

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Campus Report :
Green University of Bangladesh (GUB) has recently completed a four day long workshop on Teaching and Learning at GUB: Steps towards Quality and Excellence. The workshop was designed for orienting and developing teaching and learning skills of 19 newly recruited Senior and Junior faculty members.
It was organized and facilitated by Green University Center of Excellence for Teaching and Learning (GUCETL) and was held from 05-08 September 2014 at Green Auditorium of its university campus.
Prof Dr Md Golam Samdani Fakir, Vice Chancellor of GUB provided overall guidance and acted as lead facilitator for the workshop. Prof Dr Abdur Rab, Vice-Chancellor of Eastern University was present as Guest of Honor in the opening session. Prof Dr Md Muhibur Rahman, Member of University Grants Commission of Bangladesh was present as chief guest in the closing session.
Some sessions were facilitated by eminent educationist such as Prof Dr Iftekhar Ghani Chowdhury, Vice-Chancellor of State University, Prof Dr Syed Manjurul Islam of University of Dhaka, Farida Akhtar, a renowned Psychologist; and Arifa Rahman and Iqbal Hasan of GUCETL.
The workshop covered topics like social capital for classroom, managing the first class, students’ learning styles vs teachers’ teaching, effective habits of high performing teachers, managing students’ disruptive behavior, how to prevent plagiarism, efficient use of PowerPoint, the art of questioning, preparing course syllabus and lesson plan etc.
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