Revisiting the essential requirements for reskilling of Educators.

1. Changing Facets of Higher
Education In India:
Reskilling Teachers
Dr Jebamalai Vinanchiarachi
Former Principal Advisor, UNIDO
@jvinanchiarachi

2. Changing
facets of
higher
education
Transformative shift to qualitative
improvements
Degrees with a high level of functional literacy
Preparing students for employment / not for
entry into employment
Moving away from grossly over regulated and
under governed
Priority focus on research and innovation
Innovation-induced entrepreneurship, making
job-seekers job-makers
Increasing interactive framework between
institutions and industry
Teachers’ mindset: best practice in teaching

3. Can teachers
afford to ignore
what is happening
around the
students?
• Whatever is happening: creative
destruction triggered by disruptive
technologies
• The new normal from COVID-19 is
made easy thanks to technological
marvels
• Position teachers through reskilling in
the context of rapidly changing
lifestyle, changing mode of work,
changing patterns of production and
changing means of marketing

4. Good mentors:
Ideal
combination to
be achieved
through
reskilling
LOGICAL
THINKER (30 %)
AGGRESSIVE
ACHIEVER (30 %)
HELPER (40 %)

5. Convert learned teachers into
learning mentors
• Make teachers write articles recognized by the Institute for
Scientific Information (ISI)
• Special session on writing ISI articles – freely available on
YouTube
• Operational mechanism to facilitate writing research papers
• Constantly keep teachers abreast of their knowledge related to their
subject

6. Mentor-mandate
To produce intellectually trained,
morally upright,
ethically inspired
and socially committed persons.

7. Commanding respect
By attitudes and values
By being professionally competent and reliable
Avoid mistakes in front of students. Lead by
example.

8. Foster creative education
DISCOVER THE NON-
OBVIOUS
THINK INDIVIDUALLY
AND COLLECTIVELY TO
ERASE IGNORANCE
THINK CRITICALLY SHARPEN ANALYTICAL
UNDERSTANDING AND
ELOQUENCE

9. Be positive – construct don’t criticize
Look at the positive qualities of
students
Your positive attitude could make a
breakthrough in the life of students
Learn from students

10. Time is precious
Thank you for your time
Twitter: @jvinanchiarachi