Best Practices I The Departmental Council Activities.
Objectives Of The Practice:
- To provide leadership training to students
- Motivate students to be socially aware and responsible citizen.
- Help to enhance the all-round personality of the students.
- To promote aesthetic development, character building and organizing capacity.
- Activities help the talents of the young minds and give them an opportunity to develop their specialized skills.
The Context:
Each department plans activities which compliment but are not part of the conventional academic curriculum. Participating in them not only develop students academic potentials but also other aspects of their personality such as self-esteem, self-confidence, social cooperation and leadership skills. Activities should be educationally relevant so that they can associate with it. The sole goal of education should be to ensure the holistic development of students. Holistic development is basically the development of everyone’s intellectual, emotional, social, physical, artistic, creative and religious values. Activities develop hidden skills of students and provide an opportunity to the students to share their creativity. They are also open to students who show exceptional skill in their studies and are able to develop ahead of their peers.
The Practice:
Literary and co-curricular activities are organized by each department for the development of linguistic skill and mental faculties. Debate, discussion, declamation, speech, story writing, essay writing are some of the literary and academic activities. Activities supplement and compliment the entire aesthetic as well as spiritual development, which are the essential components of education .It helps in developing features like speech fluency , creativity and organizing skills and are a good platform to excel. Leadership skills are enhanced by selection of President, secretary, treasurer, class representatives who function as leaders of students of the department for the whole year.