The sessions are usually headed or led by one or two presenters who serve to host of hold the discussion.
Seminars are more like being in a classroom than lectures, but they’re also quite different to what you might be used to at school. Seminars are for small groups of students studying the same course. They are normally led by a tutor in a seminar room. Seminars are designed for students to talk about topics in the course reading or lectures in detail, so students have to take an active part in the debate. Sometimes the tutor will lead the seminar, or they might choose students to make a presentation. But whether you’re presenting or not, you’ll still need to do some work before and after the seminar to make the most out of them.
Seminar is a small framework that is organized with 20 to 30 people. It is learner-oriented with the purpose of learning and practicing new things. The content is very specific, it is quite intensive and it normally lasts three to five days. The essential characteristic of a seminar is the fact that it is organized to enhance professionalism. The participants enroll in order to learn something. For that reason the size is not too large. We have seminars that only last one afternoon or one day. They may as well last two weeks. The seminar may be concerned with new ways to teach literature, run a teacher’s magazine, or integrate culture in language classes.
HOW TO ORGANIZE SEMINAR?
To help you with it, here are some straight forward steps that ensure the seminar running smoothly:
- ✓ Step 1: Define your objectives
- ✓ Step 2: Choose the theme and format
- ✓ Step 3: Give the Agenda of the Seminar
- ✓ Step 4: Set a Venue ✓ Step
- 5: Choose the date
- ✓ Step 6: Choose the location
- ✓ Step 7: Set a Budget
- ✓ Step 8: The event schedule
Principles of Conducting Seminars or Conferences
Within the first two minutes, tell the audience why your presentation is important to them. This creates a heightened level of interest and awareness (i.e., I’m going to give you eight specific significant information of….)
Be specific. Be concrete. Use numbers. Use examples. Make them understandable and tangible.
1. Develop your objectives
Decide on expected cost, technological requirements for every speaker, short-term plans, and the long-term goals for your seminar.
2. Create seminar agendas Create agendas highlighting the key events and speaking times of your seminar. Your attendees will appreciate having the ability to quickly check event times.
3. Stick to the time schedule as precisely as possible. Try run your material at least twice, including once the day before the program.
4. Be relevant to your audience. Choose examples or information that connect with the specific group, and tell them why you selected them. If you use a list (of techniques, advantages, of something), begin by saying “I will be giving you 18 quick ideas of….” Then count them as you present each one so the audience may be more certain.
5. Look for audience participation and questions throughout. Encourage questions and involvement. An involved audience is engaged and closer to you.
6. No commercials please. Your best commercial is to deliver a relevant, timely session (Your name, title, and other particulars are in the program). Stick to the topic that the audience came to hear.
7. Develop a relevant handout. Some events require it, and attendees always appreciate a well-considered support piece.
Benefits of Seminar
☺ A good deal of learning is achieved effectively
☺ Topics exploration is in more depth
☺ Information seeking behavior is encouraged
☺ Shared ideas in a way that advance thinking
☺ The participants take experience from group discussions
☺ It develops cognitive, effective domains based learning
☺ This method builds better social values and fault tolerance levels in the minds of
the learner
Limitations of Seminar
1. -Setting up of a seminar for every topic in the Text is not feasible
2. -The subject area to be taught must be relevant to the theme of the seminar
3. -The seminar themes must conform to the learning experiences to be inculcated to the students
4. -This method found fit for higher learning only, for lower classes is not fruitful
5. -The resourceful is required for the seminar method
6. -Time management is somewhat difficult
7. -Unnecessary gossips, glitches among the participants may deteriorate the scope and objectives of seminar
ROLE OF MEMBERS IN SEMINAR
Seminar Committee
Seminar is conducted or organized by the committee proposed for this purpose only. This committee constitutes a Chairperson, Organizing Secretary and Subject Experts who act as the speakers of the seminar. Usually a seminar has been conducted with the following team of organizing body:
1. Chairperson or President/Convener of Seminar
Naturally, the Chairperson may be the apex person of the Institution or the policy making of the concerned body or agency. The convener has to plan and prepare the total functionaries. He is the core person and decides the theme of the seminar and fixes the objectives of seminar. He is the key person to hold all administrative functions and advisory for the seminar.
2. Organizing Secretary
He is the key person of the Seminar and responsible for the planning and executing the functions of seminar. He is the prime advisory for the convener in selecting the appropriate functionaries for technical session and selection of paper presenters. The time and venue of seminar and other administrative works are decided by him with the advice of convener. He has to circulate the circulars regarding the seminar. The Organizing Secretary controls whole the management like documentation, record keeping and matter concerning the seminar event.
3. Role of Speakers/Experts
The speaker or paper presenter is the person who prepares an article or paper about the theme or sub-theme of the seminar to read and discuss in the seminar concerned. He should prepare his paper with right and updated information with sufficient knowledge about the paper or subject he dealt. This makes the observers and participants for warm participation with good discussion forum.
4. Role of Chairperson of the Technical Session of seminar
He is the only person to hold the complete responsibility of the whole technical session. He should have the adequate knowledge about the subject or theme dealt in the seminar. Also he is cooperative and clarifies the speaker’s presentation. He has to control the whole session.
5. Role of the participants of seminar
There may be 25-40 participants in each sitting only allowed. The participants should have knowledge about the theme of seminar. S/he must have the questioning skills. Participant may express his own experience and knowledge to interrogate speakers’ view. But it must be relevant to the discussion held in the seminar.
6. Role of the observer of seminar
The eminent persons and honorable guests are invited to attend / participate in the seminar are known as observers. They have to observe the discussion and other events occurred in the seminar and deliberate their own views regarding them with the permission of Chairperson of the technical session. Their views and impressions play a remarkable role with the discussion and finalization of the concepts derived from the seminar theme.
What are the steps taken before, during and after the seminar? Describe kinds and events related to Seminars.
Ans: Seminar is an event that is conducted or held for a multiple purposes but the chief of them is to give an awareness of a subject or topic. Seminar is an advanced type of learning technique that is often adapted as a teaching method in colleges and universities. The primary goal of a seminar, both as an event as well as a method of teaching, is gaining awareness and advanced learning of a topic or an issue at a massive scale.
PROCEEDING OF SEMINAR
STEPS TAKEN BEFORE SEMINAR
a) Finding the speakers for the seminar who can assist in the event.
b) Finding a proper venue for the seminar.
c) Ensure you have done any tasks agreed for the group.
d) Read around the subject. Think about it.
e) What questions do you want answered?
f) Allocation of the budget
g) Specification of the estimated time (time duration)
STEPS TAKEN DURING SEMINAR
a) Be open to hearing something new.
b) Jot down useful information.
c) Jot down questions to ask.
d) If you don't understand something, ask.
e) Make contributions – for example, raise points that interest you
f) BUT try to get others involved too - ask open questions: "did anyone else think that....?"
g) Keeping on track
h) Considering the time allocation/limit STEPS TAKEN AFTER SEMINAR
a) Analyze the outcome of the seminar
b) Sending thanking notes to the attendees through suitable follow ups
c) Go over your notes and summarise them.
d) Make sure you know exactly what you have to do for next time – put new tasks in your diary.
Kinds of Seminars
Seminars are conducted in various stages. Based on the size and organizational aspects the seminars can be classified into 4 types:
1. Mini Seminar (Classroom Seminar) 2. Major Seminar (Departmental Seminar) 3. National Seminar 4. International Seminar1. Mini Seminar
Its coverage and scope are small and simple. A small population is enough to hold this seminar. A discussion held over the topic taught or to be taught with the students is known as Group discussion. Such group discussions held in an organized way within a class room. The mini seminar gives the participants training in questioning skills, organizing the information and presentation skills of seminar. It is a good seminar because it gives good experience to conduct a major seminar at Institutional level.
2. Major Seminar
The seminar conducted at an institutional or departmental level for a specific topic or subject is known as Major seminar. Usually students and teachers are participating in this type of seminar. This major seminar can be organized at department level for every month. A specific topic or subject is selected for the theme of the seminar.
3. National Seminar
An association of any kind particularly with academic or professional interest or an organization (Government, Firm, etc.,) conducts the seminar at National level is called National seminar. The subject experts are invited to the seminar for discussion. The Secretary of the seminar prepares the schedule and functionaries for seminar.
4. International Seminar
Usually the seminar conducted by an international organization or agency is known as International seminar. Theme of this seminar has wider aspects. Globalization, Renovation, Atomic energy agreements, Policies implementation and modification etc., are examples for themes of International seminars. A Nation or its body can conduct or organize the international seminar.
Terms Synonymous with Seminar.
Convention: It is the largest of the events, aimed at large audiences of over two thousand people. It is often political in character and of divergent content. It lasts two or three days. Typical examples are the Democratic and Republican Conventions in the United States of America where the presidential candidates are selected.
Conference: This is a smaller organizational framework for approximately seventy-five participants, but still in the same league with Convention and Congress. The content of the conference is rather specific and its major aim is to provide an overview of the relevant field and discuss issues. It usually lasts one - two days.
Symposium: Originally the term ‘symposium’ is referred to a rather small conference in which experts or scholars discuss a certain problem. The members are convened by a single member or group of colleagues who work together more or less closely. The aim of symposium is to present and share the research findings.
Round Table Discussion: In a round table discussion, all the participants have an equal say in the discussion, which starts with a very short introductory statement or presentation of a problem. In the round table everyone present has the possibility of equal input.
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