Teaching

1. Research assistants at IIT Kanpur are often asked to take tutorial lecture classes and conduct laboratory sessions for undergraduate classes. Thus had an opportunity to tutor undergraduate classes for several years at IIT Kanpur, significantly, was judged an excellent tutor by students in the annual assessment exercises conducted by the Chemistry department
2. Was the key resource person for more than thirty teachers training workshops, conducted in India and several other countries viz. Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia, FRG and UK. In these workshops college and schoolteachers of chemistry were trained to fabricate and use electronic instruments widely used for chemical analysis. The workshops included lecture/demonstration sessions on the basic principles of electronic circuits and electronic components and lab sessions to assemble and test the instruments assembled; was also responsible for developing the training software and hardware kits for such workshops.colorimeter, pH meter, conductometer, thermostat, polarimeter etc. under projects sponsored by various organizations: UNESCO, UGC and DST. These designs have been published as articles in the UGC sponsored journal ‘Chemistry Education’ (1984-86).

   The above photograph was taken during a visit to Uberlingern Germany for a workshop sponsered by UNESCO, You can spot me standing at the extreme right.
   

3. Conducted several workshops on computer literacy for the staff members of NISTADS (CSIR) New Delhi and University of Delhi and in several public schools in Delhi interacting with teachers and students under the sponsorship of Scholastic books.
4. Was the coordinator of a centre for a 21 days teacher training program held under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan during Jan-Feb 2005.
5. Participated in the three National Teachers Science Conferences supported by NCSTC/DST. In these conferences interacted with the participant teachers while evaluating their presentations during the conference.