This article explores co-curricular and extra-curricular activities and benefits in Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions. This paper describes the activities and benefits to students against the background of acquisition of skills for the 21st century. Teachers and students of residential schools are working day and night with a dedication to catapult the Society to the global map within six years. The society schools carved a niche for itself by its seamless experimentation and syncing with the emerging trends in the education space. The Residential schools are committed for the overall social, physical, educational and emotional well-being of the students. TSWREIS has brought out the academic calendar with a comprehensive framework on curricular and Co-Curricular and student-centric programs. Co-curricular and Extra-curricular activity may have an important role to play in the health and well-being of students. Many new academic programs, both co-curricular and extra-curricular activities were incorporated into the academic calendar and promoting a unique teaching and learning environment which empowers students. The residential campus life is vibrant, and the students benefit from a comprehensive range of curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. The Society has introduced programs like Saturday Clubs, Language, DEAR Time, Diary Writing, Mirror project, Healthy Tuesdays, DEAP Time, Dramatics, Mock Programs, School garage, Community Out Reach Programs, Swatch Saturday, School museum, Moot Court, Mock Election and Youth Parliament. This study adopted a descriptive survey method to analyze the data collected through interviews and questionnaires from teachers and students and found there is a significant development in education achievement, cultural values and personality development.

An alarming event in human lives recently has been the sudden breakout of the novel corona-virus pandemic. This pandemic has made us feel that in-campus teaching can’t work in the current situation. The big shift, a shift in the use of technology which we have seen in teaching in recent times has become the trend. Thus schools have been converted into the digital space. Consequently, teachers started using different virtual platforms, social media and online meeting platforms without proper training, and institutional support. During the epidemic, education is going through different problems and unprecedented concerns. Multiple positive or negative impacts can be seen due to lockdowns which forced us to think about how we can strengthen the education system. This pandemic also exposed how we were under prepared to deal with such an emerging crisis in education. This paper highlighted the trends that emerged during the pandemic and the impact of Covid-19 on education. Also, various concerns related to online education are illustrated and suggestions for government, stakeholders, and teachers are also given.

A main objective of the present study was to know the problems of Teacher educator of Self-Finance college of Education during COVID-19 Pandemic situation. COVID-19 pandemic seems to be having a huge impact on Indian education system. The study was taken following objectives: 1. To study the Academic problems of Teacher educator of Self-Finance college of Education during COVID-19 Pandemic situation. 2. To study the Financial problems of Teacher educator of Self-Finance college of Education during COVID-19 Pandemic situation. 3. To study of problems regarding admission procedure of Self-Finance college of Education during COVID-19 Pandemic situation. 4. To suggest expected changes in Teacher Education. Sample consisted 100 teacher educators. Problem Scale (PS) was developed by investigators themselves. Survey type research method was used. Data were collected from sample by Rating Scale. Collected data were analyzed by statistical technique percentage and frequency. Finding revealed that many problems are faced by teacher educator of Self-Finance college of education during COVID-19 Pandemic situation.

There is an increase in the use of technology via smartphones among students in present times. Sociologically analyzing, physical objects, techniques, and artifacts are manmade capacities that are meant to make life practicable. Values and beliefs are the guiding principles decisive in day to day aspect of life. Also, they are non-physical capacities that contribute to shaping up the culture. This investigation assimilated these concepts into smartphone application values, that was designed to assess and examine values persuaded in using a smartphone application for university students. The objective of the study was to examine the difference concerning gender and subject stream for values namely, knowledge, economic, aesthetic, social, political, nationalistic, creative, and humanistic. The data were collected utilizing researchers developed Smartphone Application Value Assessment Scale.

Enhancing the employability skills is considered as the important; the question that arises is whether India is actually creating enough jobs for its youth. For the 104.62 million fresh talents likely to enter India’s labour market by 2022, the country would need to generate 8.1 million jobs annually. Failing to this objective will only add to the country’s increasing unemployment rate that reached 6.1% in 2017-18 fiscal, despite technological developments. Through this research paper authors want to explore the role of teachers with special reference to graduate students. This paper consist concept of employability, role of teachers in employability and factors affecting employability.

Research is not only fact finding endeavour but research is a comprehensive, creative and continuous process which establishes true connectivity among various phenomena. It also helps us to generate new strategies of knowledge creation and advancement of knowledge that lead us to overcome a problem through rigorous inquiry. As such our common goal is that we must conduct an effective research in pursuit of original research works. Through this study the authors being experienced practitioners of research intend to suggest and share snippets of their thought regarding some important criterion of effective research. Obviously the writers have culled inputs both from primary as well as secondary sources. But basically this writing is the result of their collective thought exercise and the root of their views lay grounded in every day academic situation and interactions with host of young researchers.

Students with diverse abilities are increasingly present in primary and secondary schools. The inflow of special need students in the mainstream schools is become a challenge for in-service as well as new coming teachers. A teacher must know how to deal and cope up with different learning needs. The importance of the tool was to explore the competencies (knowledge, skill, attitude) of inclusive teachers who are working with students with diverse abilities in regular classroom. The purpose of this research was to develop a tool to assess teachers’ competencies with respect to knowledge, skill, attitude. A total of 50 teachers from 5 schools participated. Result showed that developed tool was effective to check competencies required for inclusive teacher.

Geometry, a branch of Mathematics develops the reasoning and logical thinking power of the child. Nearly every curriculum advisory body gives strong support to the inclusion of informal Geometry in early instruction. But the picture of Geometry is imprecise in relation to learning. In order to fulfil the objectives of Teaching of Geometry, it must be given utmost importance and this can be achieved by developing the Skill of using Geometrical Instruments in an appropriate manner in the learners. The present study titled ‘Use of Worksheets on developing the Skill of Using Geometrical Instruments’ is an experimental study. The population of the study constituted all the students of the Standard Eight of Mangaluru Taluk. Randomly selected sixty students were the sample of the study. An Instructional material consisting of worksheets and lesson plans on the use of commonly used Geometrical Instruments by the students of Standard Eight was prepared by the investigator and was validated. An Achievement test and an Observation Schedule was constructed and validated to measure the Skill of using Geometrical Instruments. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics namely, mean, median and Standard Deviation. Inferential statistics ‘t’ test was used to test the significance of the difference between the means of scores. Hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that there is a significant effect of Use of Worksheets on developing the Skill of Using Geometrical Instruments.

The present research was focused on studying the infrastructure facilities and human resource available for conducting NIOS D.El.Ed. Blended MOOCs Programme (2017-19), analysing its mechanism as well as studying the changes in the ODL D.El.Ed. programme due to integration of MOOCs online courses. The data were collected through structured interview with the coordinator of NIOS D.El.Ed. programme (2017-2019) at NIOS headquarter, coordinators of the regional centres and the students (in-service primary school teachers) and counsellors of the regional centres included in the sample. It was found that NIOS D.El.ED. Blended MOOCs Programme (2017-19) was conducted through direct counselling sessions, personal contact programme, school-based activities, workshops for practical work, SWAYAM MOOCs courses and SWAYAM PRABHA audio-video lessons. Many students of D.El.Ed. programme felt the online courses available on SWAYAM portalas an extra work and waste of time. Some of them opined that the course material on SWAYAM should have also been developed in as many regional languages of India as possible so that it could easily outreach Indian villages. The students, coordinators and counsellors, however, appreciated that SAWAYM is making rapid inroads into the near future in the field of open and distance teacher education. They were also of the view point that SWAYAM platform should be developed as Web 2.0 platform where students/participants would also have the opportunity to contribute to the development of quality course material.

No one in this entire world, including India had experienced a situation like lockdown which came up suddenly and took people unawares. Educational institutions too were badly affected by this. The researchers being teachers themselves were curious to know whether students undertake any physical activities during lockdown and if so, what type of activities were undertaken. For this purpose, an online exploratory survey was conducted on 403 college students using available sampling technique. It was found that (i) A large majority of the students do not have medical problems, (ii) A large majority of the students are either happy or indifferent towards lockdown, (iii) A large majority of the students do some kind of exercise during lockdown, (iv) Majority of the students do not do Yogasana, (v) About one-third of the students do some form of Pranayama such as Kapalbhati, Anulom-Vilom, Ujjayani, Sheetali and Sheetkari, (vi) Only one-eighth of the students work on treadmill and one-third of the students do weight-training during lockdown, (vii) About one fourth of students do meditation during lockdown, (viii) About half the students in the survey state that they have gained weight or may have gained weight during lockdown and (ix) In other words, it may be concluded that relatively fewer students are conscious about benefits of physical activities. Colleges need to prepare and motivate students for maintaining health through curriculum and co-curricular activities on a regular basis.

The entire world is going through a completely new and strange situation due to COVID-19 pandemic which has thrown the system of higher education out of gear. Final year/semester students are anxious about whether examinations will be conducted or not. There are contradictory opinions about this from various sections and stakeholders. Hence, purely due to academic curiosity, the present study was undertaken to ascertain whether there is any consistency of average performance of students over different semesters with their final CGPA. For this purpose, 253 engineering students were selected randomly. The study adopted the ex-post-facto method. The data were analysed using the t-test. It was found that (a) When students are coming to the university from a junior college in their first year of engineering, they are new to the system and its requirements and need time to adjust to a new system. Hence, the inclusion of first year performance does not show any consistency with the final CGPA (b) There is a consistency in average performance of the entire sample of students considered from Semester 2 to 7 and 3 to 7 with their final CGPA since the average performance of semesters 2 to 7 or semesters 3 to 7 does not show significant difference with the final CGPA. Therefore, if final year examination is not conducted, then the university can declare results on the basis of consistency in the average performance of either semesters 2 to 7 or 3 to 7 (c) The average of semesters 1 to 7, 4 to 7, 5 to 7 and 6 to 7, does not show consistency with the final CGPA of the total sample of students and (d) It implies that consistency matters in average performance of students over semesters 2 to 7 or 3 to 7 vis-à-vis final CGPA.

Since the very dawn of the human civilization, teacher occupied a pivotal place in the spectrum of education. A teacher is a nation-builder, social architect and torch- bearer of a society. Teaching profession is considered to be one of the noblest professions. The term in-service teacher education or continuing education in a broad sense includes all experiences and activities provided to the teachers and designed to promote personal and professional growth. The District Institute of Education and Training (DIETS) were first established on the recommendations of the National Policy on Education (NPE) 1986 for imparting training to the teachers at Elementary level. The Present study was undertaken to study the educational problems of DIET trainees and to evolve insights and mechanisms to mitigate these problems.

This paper is an attempt to present an analysis of Teacher Effectiveness and its correlation with the Quality of their Work Life. Educators (teachers) have been considered as an impetus for various social reformations that take place in a cohesion. Teaching,even today is a noble profession and teacher an epitome of nobility. With the new education policy announced by the Indian government, status of the teacher would further be reinstated as an esteemed and indispensable element of the society. Teachers play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the country and therefore it is important to empower them to carry out their responsibilities effectively. Teachers, being idolized by many, need to be effective, present high quality standards and set a benchmark for others to follow. The purpose of conducting this study was to know whether teacher effectiveness / ineffectiveness ameliorates the quality of their work life. Teacher Effectiveness means professional commitment and teachers’ sense of responsibility in executing instructions assessing her mental, physical and emotional health. Teacher effectiveness affects the quality of their work life which is considered – a process by which an organization responds to teachers need allowing them to design their lives at work. The present study used the correlational method to assess the statistical relationship between the two variables – Teacher Effectiveness and Quality of Work Life. The sample of 393 teachers from English Medium Schools of Greater Mumbai was considered for the study. The findings of the study highlights a significant low relationship between the variables Teacher Effectiveness and Quality of Work life.

The aim of the study was to analyse the significant difference in the level of Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Anxiety and Stress in accordance to gender and how personality types are related to Anxiety and Stress. Personality is the dynamic organisation within the individual of those psychophysical system that determine his characteristics behaviour and thought (Allport, 1961). Stress is our responses to events that disrupt, our physical and psychological functioning (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984; Taylor, 1991). Anxiety is the increased arousal accompanied by generalized feelings of fear or apprehension (Baron, 1999). This study was conducted on 120 young adults aged 18 to 26 years, out of which 60 were males and 60 were females, through purposive sampling technique. The Neo Five Factor Inventory (Costa, 1978), Beck Anxiety Inventory (Beck, 1993) and the Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen, 1983) were used to collect data. Data were analysed using mean, one-way ANOVA and Pearson’s product moment correlation. Result proves that, there is no significant difference in Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Anxiety and Stress among young adults across gender. There is a correlation between Neuroticism and Stress among young adults. There is a correlation between Neuroticism and Anxiety among young adults. There is a correlation between Conscientiousness and Anxiety among young adults. There is a correlation between Anxiety and Stress among young adults.

This article explores the programs and facilities available for teacher empowerment in Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions (TSWREIS) and quality based education to the marginalized children. This paper analyses the professional development of teachers against the background of acquisition of skills for the 21st century. Teachers and students of TSWREIS are working day and night with the dedication to propel the Society to the global map within six years. The TSWREIS carved a niche for itself by its seamless experimentation and syncing with the emerging trends in the education space. Residential schools achieved 96.63% in SSC, 84.31% in Intermediate and about 85% in Degree results in the academic year 2018-19. In 2019, 53 students got admission into MBBS, 20 in IIT’s, 48 in NIT besides getting admissions in professional institutions like Delhi University, Ajim Premji University, and TATA Institute of Social Sciences. The National Curricular Framework of India (NCF) states clear expectations for teachers to move away from teacher-centred instructional approaches to student-centred teaching that involves children in active engagement through inquiry, questioning, debates, exploration, application and reflection, leading to theory building and the creation of new ideas. Teachers are the most significant influence on student learning. To produce good students, an institute needs to have good teachers, those who are continuously learning and enhancing their skills. Society is investing time and money in the development of their teachers. As teachers learn and augment their skills, they are more likely to be engaged in their jobs, engage better in the classroom.

The private vs. public debate is largely misleading for two main reasons. First, the obstacles to water and sanitation infrastructure development are largely unrelated to ownership. Private sector participation brings to light the tensions that the development of water infrastructure generates, tensions that remain largely hidden when infrastructure is kept closely in the public sector. In that sense, most recommendations to optimize private sector participation, including the OECD Principles, remain relevant tools to facilitate infrastructure development projects regardless of the partners.