Continuous up skilling of teaching faculty for competency building: during and post pandemic

It is always a proven statement that the education industry keeps growing and it has been witnessed a reflectivetransformation in the meadow of edification. Swiftprogress and skill augmentation for teachers are the need of the hour. Chalk and Talk Method, so called conventional teaching have distorted into smart boards, interactive teaching and virtual reality and augmented reality mode of teaching. Access to innovative tools and technology has made education expedienttransversely in all platforms. This study has envisaged the real impact of Covid’19 towards the continuous up skilling of the teaching faculty irrespective of their disciplines. A sample size of 182 teaching professionals of Engineering and Arts and Science in growing institutions of Coimbatore City has been included for the study. A well structured questionnaire was framed and distributed among the teaching community and the data is analyzed through descriptive statistics. The pandemic has made a drastic change in all the fields, especially education as the teachers perception towards teaching mode has transformed from conventional to contemporary in most of the prominent cases.