Field Visits
Field visits provide opportunities to the students for incorporating experiences of outside the classroom into a course. Field visits can provide a student developmental and impactful educational experience. Filed visits are integral part of the curriculum for the students of botany and geography.

“Read and read widely, that you may know what has already been accomplished; and read critically. But, no one can read critically whose knowledge comes entirely, or even principally, from reading. You must have a first-hand knowledge of the material, must study it in the field and in the laboratory.” - C. J. Chamberlain
Without filed study, botany is artefact, that is why botanical excursion is a part of curriculum of the B.Sc. part - III Botany. The botanical excursion is successfully organized every year. During the excursion students study the plants in their habitats. They become acquainted with the role of abiotic climate in the determining the range of vegetation types.
Students of B.Sc. as well M.Sc. botany are brought into the filed on-campus as well as off-campus. During on-campus visits, students are brought into the Babu K N Singh Botanical Garden and Phytoconservatory, Navagraha Vatika, and Fern House to study the habit of the plants. Students also must visit regularly in the campus to study the flora of KNIPSS.
Students of B.Sc. Botany Part III during the filed visit of the KNI campus study the floristic compostion
Students of B.Sc. Botany IV Sem during observation of plants details in Navagraha Vatika
Students of B.Sc. Botany III Sem during study of plant diversity in the KNIPSS Jungle
During the off-campus field visit students are encouraged to experience the long botanical excursion organized to study the habit of plants growing in different geoclimatic area of India. The voucher specimens of plants collected by the students are well preserved in the Herbarium of the Department of Botany.
Students of M.Sc. Botany celebrating “World Wildlife Day” in the deciduous forest of Satpura Biosphere Reserve during long botanical excursion
As a part of experiential learning students opted geography conduct the survey of the on-campus field to learn the measurement of the horizontal angle of selected objects from a survey station. Theodolite is a surveying equipment used to detect horizontal and vertical angles using a small low telescope that can move within the horizontal and vertical planes. Students of geography learning the principle and operation of theodolite instrument
Department of geography organizes long excursion for off-campus experiential learning. The excursion is usually planned to visit the hilly areas, different rocks formation of the India as well as the coastal geography. In addition, students learn to manage the different events organized during off-campus field visits.
Students of geography learning the rock formation during off-campus field visit
Crop Cafeteria
The main objectives of the crop cafeteria are identification of various crops grown in Sultanpur region and get acquainted by the UG and PG students of Agriculture Faculty. The crops grown in crop cafeteria is helping to educate students of the faculty to help in identifying the crops, their varieties, growth stages of the crop and various intercultural operation from sowing to harvesting in various crops by the undergraduate and Postgraduate students.
Every year department of agronomy, faculty of agriculture, KNIPSS, Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh develops crops cafeteria in kharif and Rabi seasons that facilitates conduct of practical classes with live demonstrations for easy understanding of cropping patterns of different crops for undergraduate students and post graduate students. students can learn skills in different farm operations of various crops like land preparation, seed treatments, sowing, fertilizer application, irrigation and weed management, assessment of maturity signs, harvesting of crop, cost of cultivation and economics of crop, observations on growth and yield estimation.
Student of M.Sc. Agronomy preparing crop cafeteria
Field Experiments
The main objective of M.Sc. in genetics and plant breeding is to learn how to improve the crops. Students learn to develop high yielding varieties, hybrids etc., over the existing cultivars in the field conditions. During the field experiments, students raise the parent plants and after emasculation and hybridization in between the performances of the new varieties are confirmed from the obtained results.
Ridge preparation for line sowing of chickpea, field pea and wheat trials by the students of M.Sc. genetic and plant breeding
Beekeeping
Beekeeping is a significant sustainable, and environmental sound learning activity involving integration of forestry, social forestry, and agricultural supporting activities. Beekeeping is a low investment and skill industry having the potential to offer direct employment of people especially unemployed youth and farmers. Sustainability of this industry is therefore vital to the country’s economic development.
Students of M.Sc. Entomology learning beekeeping
Practice Teaching
In B.Ed. program, practice teaching is the perfect method of experiential learning. It improves the level of confidence among pupil teachers, which helps them for present their study material effectively and enable them to handle higher classes after graduation. This session engages pupil teachers to use all their skills for effective communication and organize different activity according to timetable decided by the institute where their practice teaching occurs. Pupil teachers also understands the importance of timetable, organize different activity to ensure over all development of students. Practice teaching is a pre-job training for a person who seeks for being a professional in teaching profession. It improves the skills and other qualities of a pupil teacher for being a perfect teacher.
Laboratory Practical
Experiential learning by itself can be achieved only by doing experimentation in the laboratory. Without laboratory practical works, any course of science is incomplete. By doing experiments students not only learn how to handle and operate apparatus, but also acquire the scientific outlook. This method of experiential learning satisfies students queries of knowledge of what, how and why of things. Doing experimentation in the laboratory also make the students more enthusiastic to know more and more.
Student of M.Sc. chemistry while doing experiment in the laboratory
Laboratory experiences also provide a forum for students to develop the ability of collaboration. Students become able to share the work of the task and to contribute and respond to ideas. Students of B.Sc. Botany observing fungal material during practical
Industrial Visit
During industrial visit, students visit industries and get insight into the internal working environment of an industry. Students learn about the industries functions, as well as useful information related to the practical aspects of the course which cannot be learned in the conventional classroom teaching. Industrial visits are an essential part of the curriculum in chemistry as well as economics.
Students of economics while visiting to Sugar mil
Court Visit
In order to provide the law students active experimental learning, this institute conducts student's visits the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Lucknow to supplement their traditional learning's in the college campus. With the said object, the institute organizes a visit to the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad. Lucknow every year.
Law students visiting High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Lucknow
Jail Visit
Students of LLB visit the district jail of the Sultanpur in order to get the exposure of treatment of prisoners keeping in mind the rehabilitative and reformative approach. Students study the behaviour of inmates of district jail, Sultanpur. Students get acquainted about the security system of jail premises. They learn about the services and opportunities provided to the inmates by the district jail authorities. Also, student get idea about what medical and food facilities provided to the prisoners. Through the jail visit, students of law feel the prison environment.
Students of LLB visiting the district jail of the Sultanpur

Student seminar presentation
Beside reading and writing, presentation is a form of learning, where a student or their group participate as a teacher and rest of the students learn as students. In this institute seminar presentation is a compulsory participative learning method for the students pursuing their masters. Students’ seminar is always bidirectional and all the students are encouraged to interact with their queries at the end of each presentation. During presentation of seminar, a student improves the breathing control, pitch variation, articulation and voice quality. The seminar presentation is monitored and guided by the faculty members.

Students of M.Sc. Botany during seminar presentation
Group Discussion
Group Discussion (GD) is a method of participative learning where students discuss issues and ideas together and learn from each other. In GD students participate to interact on topic, develop their critical thinking skills. GD also enhances the communication skills among the students. GD a powerful teaching learning method which help students in building their confidence. During GD, a teacher identifies the participating students, who are struggling with a concept and helps by providing context to fill the gap.
Drone Demonstration
Student of M.Sc. Agriculture learn by participating the drone demonstration. The objective of the drone demonstration is to increase students’ knowledge and interest in using drones in agriculture. This participative learning method enhance the knowledge about drones, future prospects with drone technology, its applications in farming like fertilizers or pesticides spraying, seed bombing, imaging and scanning etc.
Student of M.Sc. Agriculture participating in drone demonstration
Microteaching
Microteaching is a process which ensures formative evaluation process for skilling to pupil teachers by the pupil teacher and their supervisors. Microteaching helps pupil teachers to develop different skills for their real classroom teaching. The students of B.Ed. and M.Ed. participate to practice on various skills such as Introduction Skill, Explanation skill, Probing question Skill, Reinforcement skill, Pupil Participation skill, Black Board writing skill etc. with a small group of students before teaching a bigger group. In the process of microteaching students, feedback for a pupil teacher on different components of that skill helps them and others to eliminate errors in skill development. It focuses on sharpening and developing specific teaching skills and eliminating errors. This helps them build confidence and be prepared for a variety of classroom scenarios.
B.Ed. Ist year students participating in microteaching
Moot Court
Moot courts are an essential part of the teaching-learning for the law students. It simulates the proceedings of the real court conditions. The participants learn about lawyers' skills, professional ethics, confidence and advocacy in the moot court.
Students of law simulating the court proceeding in moot court
Library
Libraries play a vital role in providing students with reliable content. It encourages and promotes the process of learning and grasping knowledge on their own. Moreover, a library helps the students to get their hands on great educational material which they might not find otherwise in the market. When a student reads more, his/her social skills and academic performance improves. When students get homework in class, the libraries help them with the reference material. Libraries are also helpful in the overall development of the students.
This institute has a central library to serve all the students. In addition, all the departments running postgraduate program has their own library to serve the postgraduate students. The library of this institute has subscription of 146 print journals. The library has subscription of DELNET with 1810 E-Journals and 10655 E-books. The library also has membership of N-LIST with 164309 E-BOOKS and 6150 E-Journals. The library has asset of more than 82000 books.
Publication by students
Students of this Institute are given different broad topics relevant to their curriculum. The students then frame specific topics and write reviews by their own. During writing process students can seek help from their teachers and mentors. The manuscript is finalized by the guiding teacher/mentor and corresponded to the publication. Publication in good journals is encouraged. The manuscript is also published in the institute’s magazine- Vimarsh. Publication by students provides them opportunities to learn and practice new knowledge and strategies. It helps them to explain their reasoning. During writing process, students examine their thinking and recognize the need to revise thinking.

Assignment
By the definition assignment is a “piece of work to be done”. In teaching-learning process, it is a part of problem-solving methodologies, where students are given a specific problem related to the curriculum. The students are supposed to submit the assignment within the given period of time. Teachers/mentor is there to help in solving the problems. In this institute assignment submission is compulsory during all the semesters for all the students pursuing their graduate.
Dissertation/Project work
Dissertation is the assigned problem to be solved by the students during last year or las semester to completed the degree. In dissertation a student or their group often choose the question to be solved by themselves. The main aim of the dissertation is to test the problem-solving skills students have acquired during the time at institute. During the course of dissertation some guidance from the teachers/mentor is done, however, it is mostly independent. In this institute this problem-solving methodology is practiced by the students pursuing M.Com., M.Ed., B.B.A. and M.A. economics.

ICT Tools available for teaching learning
ICT tools always provide add-on to the teaching-learning process. These tools provide the speed with precision during teaching. By using ICT tools, a teacher can deliver more contents in very efficient and student-friendly way. During lock-down period, teaching-learning was possible only by means of ICT tools. KNIPSS has a rich resource in the form of ICT tools. It caters the teacher and students with more than 746 high-speed computers in the entire campus. Beside this, 34 laptops are provided to the teachers in order to enhance the used of ICT tools in teaching-learning process. A total of 68 overhead projectors installed in the classrooms are being used by the teachers of this institute. Beside overhead projectors, 08 classrooms are equipped with smartboard, which further enhances the experiences of teaching-learning. KNIPSS also serves the teachers with 34 tripods, 36 Bluetooth microphone, 4 collar microphone to the teachers for enhancing the teaching-learning process.

Dr. Alok Verma while using smartboard for teaching to M.Sc. students
Centre for virtual learning
This institute has a well-equipped language lab for virtual learning for various courses. This lab is equipped with 85 computers with audio facilities. The system is provided with high-speed (50 mbps) internet connection. The system is installed with digital language software and LSRW. Any faculty member/student can use the facility on demand by filling a form assigned with the faculty head. A dedicated team of staff is there to provide the assistance to the students as per use of software.
Students learning in language lab
E-Pathshala
This institute hosts the e-contents across the various courses on a dedicated webpage name: “E-Pathshala”. This repository of e-content is available at: http://knipss.ac.in/e-pathshala/main_n.asp . This repository served the student with more than 2,500 high-quality e-contents and videos. Keeping in mind the free dissemination of knowledge the E-Pathshala does not require any charges.