Innovative Teaching: Preparing Students for Real-World Problem-Solving

Faculty plays a variety of roles to instill this quality in a student’s mind. They include teaching, mentoring, coaching as well as counseling. Faculty train and mentor the students in groups and individually for their personal and professional development and growth.

Innovation used in the classroom

 Dr Bhajneet takes a Business Problem-solving course for the first-year students of PGDM where students need to study start-ups and small enterprises and identify their problems. They need to understand the challenges faced by these organizations and then provide solutions and convert them into cases. Before assigning this experiential learning-based assessment, students are trained about every step/methodology for solving business problems. During class, various examples and cases are discussed and brainstormed, and case-based quiz assessments are also conducted. Students are trained to use the various tools of business defining and solving like Cause and Effect, Pareto, 5W and 1H, Why-Why analysis, Mind mapping, MECE, and solution trees etc,, including hands-on sessions. After involving the students in a more case-based and experiential learning approach, they can relate the theory and concepts to real practice. It is a big achievement that students are utilizing what they have learned to solve business problems.

Benefit  for students

 Students can identify business problems by finding the root cause. They apply the correct methodology and tools as per their utility. The availability of the faculty beyond the classroom provides continuity in their work with no break. They have learned through experience the different phases from problem identification to the solution. They usually face multiple challenges in the initial phases of identifying and defining the issues, but with proper guidance, they can move forward. Students write cases that can be further used for teaching and publication purposes.