BEST PRACTICES
INSTITUTIONAL DISTINCTIVENESS:
The primary objective of the institution is the pursuit of Academic Excellence and Placements. The institute also aims at vitalizing the learning skills with a focus on futuristic demands, vitalizing teaching learning process, ICT, Human Values, and functional relationship with all the stakeholders for the holistic development of the individual and society. It also strives to create virtuous, meritorious personalities and to prepare professional, creative, and humane students to serve the humanity by setting a commendable tradition of initiative and imagination.
The institution stands apart from all other institutions by placing greater emphasis on producing professional students by providing value-based education and enabling the students to face challenges in modern life. The institute aims at instilling a sense of self-discipline and accountability among students and developing a respect for democratic, ethical, and moral values. The institution provides the best amenities required for students to enhance their Technical skills, Academics, and Extra-curricular activities and brings out the best in them.
The placement cell is an integral part of our institution, ensures that the students are well trained and prepared to face their campus interviews effectively. The Placement cell has adopted an effective communication system with students to keep the students informed about potential job opportunities and guide them from time to time. Training is imparted to the students from their second year in soft skills and technical skills. The academic and placement processes are complemented with a diverse array of opportunities provided to the students in enhancing their knowledge beyond academics.
Various conferences, guest lectures, workshops, summit are organized throughout the year, by which the students are exposed to the outside world work ethics and all the recent developments and innovations. Students are encouraged to develop their own projects that are funded by both the State and Central Government of India to help them explore their creative ideas. To bring out the concealed talents of the students every year the institution conducts cultural activities. This event throws light on various arts and thus pushes the students to excel in Co-Scholastic areas as well. The institution has provided the best possible facilities in terms of infrastructure for teaching, learning and sports activities to make a student complete in all dimensions.
The Classrooms, Laboratories, Smart classrooms, Group discussion halls, Library, Solved Question bank for all the subjects and Administrative office are highly conducive to the overall academic environment. The institution hosts fully equipped grounds for athletics, basketball, indoor badminton courts, and volleyball courts. As a result students have performed well in state and national level sports events and secured many medals.
Best Practices of the Institution:
Enhancing Employability Skills while preparing Students for Competitive Exams
Objectives:
• To make students aware of various types of competitive exams.
• To guide students for various competitive exams by conducting programs.
• To polish the personality of the students by developing the life skills, employability skills and communication skills.
The Context:
Most of the students plan to get a job in central government, state government, semi government or banking sector etc. Since, last couple of years faculties of the institution use to guide the students in person and in a group in an informal way to serve the purpose.
The Practice:
Our Institution has a Career Counselling centre that enable, trained and guides the students for various competitive exams by arranging free of charge coaching through invited experienced experts. Announcement was made in all the classes and the interested students registered their names by filling up the registration forms. Many students have benefited under these course. The sessions covered general awareness (UPSC, GPSC, Banking exams etc., currents affairs, English, public administrations, history, Geography, Logical reasoning, quantitative aptitude etc.) The institution has rich library were they are facilitated with books, magazines, newspapers etc. and peaceful conductive ambience with ample reading space to prepare for competitive exams. Facility of computer and internet is also available in institution library.
Students were taught grooming, etiquettes, effective presentation, time management, CV Writing, personal interview, group discussion etc.
Impact of the Practice:
• Students were oriented towards awareness of competitive examinations.
• Students were inclining towards getting jobs to clearing competitive examinations.
• Students were direct in touch with the experts to solve their difficulties and queries.
Resources Provided:
• Library well equipped with Competitive exam material.
• Experts for teaching and training.
• Hall with IT and Audio facilities.
Mentor-Mentee System
Mentor-Mentee scheme would set up a healthy relationship between the students and the faculty. Mentoring takes place in the context and setting of universal human values. It gets the student to explore oneself and allows one to experience the joy of learning, stand up to peer pressure, take decisions with courage, be aware of relationships, be sensitive to others, understand the role of money in life, and feeling of prosperity. Human values as enshrined in our constitution like justice, liberty, equality, fraternity, human dignity and the unity and integrity of the Nation can also be part of this discussion.
The Student mentoring in Jayam College of Engineering and Technology is defined as a one-to-one relationship between a student (Mentee) and the mentor that occurs over an extended period of time. The mentor provides consistent support, guidance and help to a student to provide them with a positive role model.
The goal of student mentoring is to help all students involved in the mentoring program to gain the skills and confidence to be responsible for their own futures and develop to their full academic and personal potential.
The main objectives of Mentor- Mentee system is for continuous academic monitoring of students for technical as well as soft skill enhancement which results in improved employability. Continuous monitoring of academic performance of students including their attendance and performance in internal exams as well as providing a support system to guide and motivate the students and also to identify and solve personal and health related problems of the students
The Mentor–Mentee Scheme was introduced in the year 2016, with a view to advance the educational and personal growth of students. Each mentor teacher establishes a strong and caring bond with his/her (mentee) students. Every student has his own strengths and weaknesses. Mentor is a guardian to his students and he/she knows and understands his students personally. The institute has a Mentor- Mentee Program for all the students First, Second, Third and Final Year. Under this initiative, one faculty is appointed for every 15 to 20 students as their Mentor. The role of the appointed faculty is to continuously monitor the academic performance such as daily attendance of these 15-20 students.
Parents are regularly updated about the performance of their ward by his/her mentor and thus they are also involved in this process. Mentor acknowledges and addresses the problems faced by the students like poor academic performance, problems related to infrastructural facilities, and personal problems. The Effective communication with the students helps their respective mentors to understand their strengths and weaknesses. Therefore they can mentor them in the right direction.
All these activities undertaken by the mentor like call records to the parents, meetings, minutes of meetings, student performance etc. are recorded in a booklet which is maintained by each and every Mentor.
Success of Mentorship:
The following resources are used for Mentor-Mentee process
1. Mentor- Teacher
2. Mentee-Students
3. Mentor-Mentee Booklet