Competency Based Training by Capt K Iyer

1. COMPETENCY
BASEDTRAINING
Capt. Krishnamurthy Iyer
Principal
Tolani Maritime Institute

2. CASE 1
■ Shipping company at Singapore – Short lists Indian officers
because they have Competency based training

3. CASE 2
■ Your Honour, it took you two years to decide I was wrong on
a decision I took in two minutes

4. COMPETENCY
■ Ability to take a decision in less than two minutes and
decision should be right.

5. PRESENT SYSTEM
■ We are puppets to a system of titles and degrees
■ Our education system is highly exam oriented
■ We have never considered if we are able to apply our
knowledge in practical work.
■ We teach all subjects in isolation and there is no integration
between the subjects. We are only dumping information.
■ We do not reflect on what we learn

6. CHALLENGES
■ FLUENCY ILLUSION
■ Emphasis has been on context and not on concepts.
■ Most of the students passing 12th are weak in fundamentals
■ Inhibition to dirty hands

7. WAY FORWARD
■ Delink Degree from Competency
■ Change from Fixed Mind Set to Growth Mind Set

8. LEARNING HOWTO LEARN
■ Each of us learn in our own pace and own way.
■ Self directed learner
■ Keep learning the subject after the course is over.
■ Life long learning

9. KNOWLEDGE
■ PRESENT SYSTEM
■ Our present system is only dumping information
■ Superficial Learning
■ NEW SYSTEM
■ Construct on the basis of previous knowledge and experience
■ In Depth Learning

10. CONSTRUCTIVISM
■ Connecting new information with what they currently know
in a way meaningful to them.

11. MODE OF LEARNING
■ PRESENT SYSTEM
■ Memorizing
■ NEW SYSTEM
■ Relating

12. STUDENT’SGROWTH, GOALS
■ PRESENT SYSTEM
■ Fulfil the requirement to pass exam and obtain a certificate
■ NEW SYSTEM
■ Student strive to focus on life long learning within a broader
system. Understand concepts. Apply knowledge in your work.

13. ASSESSMENT
■ PRESENT SYSTEM
■ Distinguishes between pass and fail
■ NEW SYSTEM
■ Continual assessment. Purpose of assessment is to take corrective
measures.The feedback should be frequent, Immediate,
Discriminatory (based on clear criteria and standard) delivered
lovingly.

14. LEARNING OBJECTIVE
■ PRESENT SYSTEM
■ Objective is to complete the syllabus
■ Focus is on content centred
■ NEW SYSTEM
■ Instead ofTeaching objective, it should be Learning
Objective. Objective should take into account not only at the
end of the course but even two years after completing the
course.
■ Focus should be centred on Learning

15. SYLLABUS
■ PRESENT SYSTEM
■ Copy and paste existing syllabus with slight changes.
■ NEW SYSTEM
■ Backward Design
■ CriticalThinking

16. INTEGRATION
■ Interdisciplinary learning.
■ Look at the problem from two or more disciplines
■ Connecting academic work with other areas of life.
■ In any calculation, go beyond the method of performing the
calculation.The student should have conceptual
understanding of the subject.

17. REFLECTION
■ After getting new information and ideas, the student must
reflect
■ Without reflection, learning will not be meaningful.
■ With reflection we change in the way we think or act.
■ Learning is complete only when a change occurs.

18. CONCLUSION
■ Emphasis should be on in depth learning rather than just
passing exams
■ Learning is complete only when a change occurs.
■ In the present system are we producing
competent officers?