Poddar International College, Mansarovar, Jaipur, Assistant Professor: Dr. Shilpika Tewari Interview

Dr. Shilpika Tewari is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Poddar International College, Jaipur. She is also working as the Coordinator of the Arts Department. She has completed her Ph.D. in Education, which enables her to deliver lessons with perfection and zeal. She is an exemplary faculty of the institute, having fifteen years of teaching experience and publications in reputed journals. 

Being a faculty of the Arts Department, what are your roles and responsibilities towards the students?

I facilitate the overall development of the institute by finding solutions to academic and non-academic problems and queries of the students. My teaching strategies aim at providing high-quality education in different subjects and focusing on their future perspectives.

How do you establish healthy relations with the students and fellow faculty? 

Both classroom and staffroom environment is democratic, where all have the freedom to express their opinion. Our faculties approach the students with positive psychology so that they can understand the interest, habits, attitudes, and aptitudes of the student.

What is your philosophy of leadership, and describe your leadership style?

As a leader, I possess a humanitarian approach toward everyone. My leadership philosophy is based on the policies like self-awareness, and gender credibility, focusing on relationship building, staying authentic, empower my team and hence the department to work dynamically.

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How do you strategize the curriculum, and how often does it get updated to make it befitting for the students?

I strategize the curriculum to mold a student with practical knowledge, self-dependence, values and ethics, technological proficiency, and social responsibility. We update the curriculum constantly by focusing on the above points to carve the students with perfection. 

How do you build a positive school culture or climate?

We build a positive college culture by building interactive Teacher-parent involvement, boosting achievements and good behavior of students and teachers, laying out norms and values and creating a good human, maintaining discipline on campus and promoting students’ participation in co-curricular and innovative activities 

How do you prepare your student to cope with the competition being so high in the outside world? 

We prepare our students for competition through various add–on courses and activities. We organize mock-interview and job fairs to acquaint and compete with students in the professional world. We also conduct special classes on competition, soft skills, personality grooming, stress management, and confidence-building. 

Do you have any extracurricular activities/ programs to enhance the skills of the students or expose them to real-world challenges?

We have various active cells for enhancing the students’ skills, like NSS, Women’s Cell, Cultural Club, Literary Club, Digimark Club, Placement Cells, etc. 

What are the challenges you faced/ are facing to uplift the quality of education in your department? 

Nowadays information and technology have become a necessary evil for gathering factual knowledge for learning. Students get distracted by biased information provided on the internet and unknowingly follow inappropriate/misleading content. Certain real challenges in the Indian education system are the unavailability of funds, lack of continuous monitoring and implementation of the academic plan framed by educators, the improper accomplishment of teaching and learning through ICT, etc.

What are the interventions and approaches you bring in apart from the curriculum to train/teach the students?

In addition to academics, we ensure students are aware of their responsibilities and duties towards society and nature. The most important aspect of our institute is that we promote value-based education. We believe that students should handle environmental issues and gender sensitivity problems and have respect and obligation towards the elders.

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What valuable advice would you like to the students for them to have a prosperous career ahead?

Students who pass out from our college are our pride and proud. As a department facilitator, I advise them to be confident and thorough on their subject and be role models for their fellow beings. I direct them to focus on their aim and vision and achieve envious success. At the same time, be responsible towards the nation and aware of our cultural, social, and moral duties as social beings.