SOFT SKILL AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING IN TEACHING AND FINE ARTS

by Vaibhav Kumar Pragyan Institute of Education

Professional training on the job and before the job is important for personal and professional growth. Educational institutions like any other professional organizations carry out teachers’ training session on different educational issues from time to time. Such workshops and training sessions help the teaching staff to keep track of latest happening in education, find new perspective to teaching, looking children and their needs form dynamic view point and understanding the unknown aspects of conscious professional practices.

Teaching staff training programs for schools are strategic ways to keep the educational manpower competitive, energetic and vibrant. No school can afford a laid back and stagnant academic manpower; more so because it the most important function of school to help children prepare for future life. For this reason the entire education system and their participants needs to be updated all the time. Major task of teachers is to carry out daily class activities. They need to pre plan all this and also carry out additional organizational work as well. Doing the same task over a long period of time may bring boredom and due to constant work pressure they get little time to update themselves or research new innovative strategies and techniques to carry out tiresome teaching and learning activities. Training workshops for teachers comes to their rescue. These teaching workshops help them to develop creative and original thinking, adapt to new innovative ways to teaching, help them to acquire new approach and methods of teaching and evaluation, incorporate new ways to conducting class sessions, understand children and their needs in changing time, learn effective ways of planning lesson plans, understanding aims and objectives of education in present context, develop farsightedness in respect to the real time outcome of school based learning in future, understanding importance of developing wide yet comprehensive curriculum which serves individual as well as social purpose of education.

Besides in – service teaching staff training, there are pre - service teaching staff training courses also. Elementary Teachers Training courses like - recognized NTT, recognized NPTT courses and NCTE Approved D.Ed courses and NCTE approved JBT courses are well suited for students who have passed out 10+2. For Graduates and Post Graduates Direct B.Ed admission in Delhi is a professional degree course, a must needed degree to take teaching jobs at secondary and senior secondary levels. Best B.Ed admission centers in south Delhi help eligible candidates seek direct admission in B.Ed from MDU and CRSU universities.

Besides teaching and training, there are other career options in various different fields. Fine arts and commercial arts are unconventional course that have good career opportunities in terms of acquiring jobs and in terms of self employed options as well. People with good drawing and sketching skills are assets to firms which deal with creative work. Advertising, book publishing houses, movie makers, animators, print media, architecture firms, etc all need accomplished and polished artists who can create a virtual images to their abstract imaginations. Character and product drawing, architectural layouts, product designing, poster and brochure designing are few commercial aspects of fine arts, which have enormous potential in terms of acquiring employment or being self employed. Free lance artists earn a good living by selling their art work through art galleries and by conducting art exhibitions. Water colour paintings, oil paintings, acrylic paintings, real and semi realistic abstract art and core abstractions adorn the walls of art lovers. People who love this form learn to paint landscapes, cityscapes, portraits and nature. Spatula and knife paintings, oil paintings and Mix - Media classes in south Delhi are learnt most by people who want to learn painting as hobby course or as free time activity. Art courses are sort after course by people of all age group alike. Best art colleges conduct short term course in painting & Sketching, diploma in fine arts and BFA 4 yrs degree course. One can choose as per ones interest.