BEST PRACTICE – I
- Title of the Practice: Counseling & Mentoring System for Students
- Objectives of the Practice
To minimize dropouts, improve performance and reduce stress of the students through personal counseling.
- The Context
Students undergo various problems of stress- personal, academic, physical, mental. Engineering education is a time bound course with time limitations to complete their work especially during the first two years. Students are new to professional college life and the demands of education; create a lot of stress, especially to hostel students who are away from family for the first time. Also, in the economically weaker students and students from educationally weak background, this creates a lot of complex and do not perform well due to inhibitions. Statistics reveal increasing number of suicides and dropouts. Considering the student-teacher ratio in classrooms, it is impossible at times to give personal attention to students in class. One solution therefore is a Mentoring which can form the bond between teachers and students in the true sense. Mentoring is required for students to achieve emotional stability and to promote clarity in thinking and decision making for overall progress.
- The Practice
The practice is that of creating an efficient mentoring system. Each teacher is assigned 15-20 students for the complete duration of their study. They meet at least once a week to discuss, clarify and primarily to share various problems which may be personal, domestic, academic, etc. The mentors encourage the students to participate in co-curricular and extra-curricular activities and sports. Their academic performance and other activities are all recorded. Students should inform their mentors on all their movements like their absence from college, sickness etc. The mentors also keep in touch with the parents on their attendance, test performance, fee payment, examinations etc. The teacher is equipped with all the necessary information about his/her wards on a file. The teacher involves local guardians and parents as well, whenever necessary for any advice or help. At the end of every month the mentors prepare a report of their mentees progress. The mentors also counsel the students in need of emotional problems. When the students have any problem in any department either with the staff or with work completion the mentors speak with the respective staff and sorts out the problem. Mentors take special care of slow learners, who are given advice on how to study, prepare a time table for study and clarify the doubts and also given notes to study. They will meet the mentors once a month and get the report of the progress and achievements of students and complaints of and by the students. These complaints are discussed with the Principal and necessary action taken to rectify the complaints.
- Evidence of Success
Student counseling committee works actively and maintains regular touch with the students for sort out the problems that they encounters during their studies at any stage. The immediate solutions given to the students are as follows.
- Reduction in absenteeism.
- Improvement in overall performance.
- Improvement in personality.
- Increased participation in co-curricular activities.
- Improvement in behaviour and attitudes
- Improved interpersonal relationship with elders and peers.
- Becoming responsible citizen.
- Improvement in performance of weak students.
- Increased campus selection ratio.
- Receiving awards and recognition
- Problems Encountered and Resources Required
Majority of the Students are unwilling to open and share their problems freely to the mentors. Therefore it makes the mentor to understand the problems of him/her to give right guidance.
Effectiveness of counseling and mentoring
Counseling and mentoring system developed by the Institute has been proved to be effective considering different parameters. The involvement of students in the academics has increased, like class work attendance, self-confidence, adjusting to the new environment, Time management, participation in cultural activities etc. Because the number of students allocated to each of the mentor is limited to one class, personal interaction on regular basis has been possible.
The following are the example for the effectiveness of the mentoring process:
| S.No. | Regd No. | Name of the student | Attendance % | Internal Performance % | ||
| SEM –I | SEM –II | SEM –I | SEM –II | |||
| 1 | 219P1A0101 | B Bala Raj Kumar | 78 | 80 | 53 | 64 |
| 2 | 219P1A0304 | D J M Varma | 80 | 85 | 45 | 54 |
| 3 | 219P1A0412 | A Manikanta | 76 | 92 | 58 | 62 |
| 4 | 219P1A0503 | B Anusha | 77 | 80 | 74 | 79 |
Supporting Documents for Best practices-1
Best Practice-2
Title of the Practice: National Service Scheme (N.S.S.) Extension Activity
Objectives: The main objective is to inculcate moral and ethical values through service to humanity among the students and become responsible citizens of the nation.
The Context: The institute conducts its N.S.S. activities during the academic session as a team work of N.S.S. volunteers under the active guidance and leadership of program officer. The N.S.S. unit utilizes this notion of the student youth to work practically and enthusiastically in the adopted villages by involving them as N.S.S. volunteers with the purpose of inculcating awareness in rural community regarding education, prevention of disease.
The Practice: In DNRCET, N.S.S. committee is formed and headed by the principal as chairman and one senior faculty as programme officer.NSS performs various activities in the nearby adopted villages and in the institution. DNRCET encourages the students to interact with the neighbouring communities to explore the opportunities for involvement in social work. Blood donation camps and Health check-up camps are arranged periodically and on days of commemoration.
Evidence of Success:
In DNRCET, in the past five years, college N.S.S. unit have organized various activities including unit camps, district camps, special camps and celebrating special days. As a result of these activities, a noticeable change has been observed in the personality of the students. The college has a systematic mechanism to get the students actively involved in social movements and activities through its NSS programmes. In the last five years, total 49 activities have been organized and many Govt officials and higher officials participated in the NSS activities.
Summary of the activities:
| Academic Year | Number of Activities | Number of Students participated |
| 2021-2022 | 11 | 428 |
| 2020–2021 | 8 | 650 |
| 2019-2020 | 13 | 530 |
| 2018-2019 | 9 | 620 |
| 2017-2018 | 8 | 610 |
Awards & Certificates
- NSS unit also received awards for their extension activities and some of them are Best NSS Unit Awards from Sri Vijgnana Vedika, Best NSS PO in Azadika Amrit Mahotsav, Republic day celebrations, Kishori vikasam, Uttamasevak award from Swachh Bharat Mission etc. Also, many students received certificates for their contribution to NSS activities.
Problems Encountered and Resource Required: Service to mankind is service to God. Though N.S.S., volunteers are directed to work for the cause of community and Society to live up to the expectations of the people.
Supporting Documents for NSS activities