Workshops
Workshops
Expanding horizons… Faculty Enrichment Programme
Critical Thinking and Curiosity are the key to Creativity!
Navrachana Vidyani educators Krishnammal Venkat, Jayna Pathan, Purvi Arora and Jinny Shah attended the ‘National Conference on Critical Thinking in Education: Strategies & Implementation’ Workshop held at Navrachana University over February 15-16. They presented research papers on topics such as, ‘Best practices to foster critical thinking’, ‘Thinking creatively and critically with NEP 2020’, Mindscapes in motion : nurturing critical thinkers through creativity’ and ‘STEAMing ahead with critical thinking capabilities’.
Keynote Speaker Dr. Vishal Bhadani (Vice President Lokbharti University) and Chief Guests Prof. Pushpanadham Karanam (Western Regional Committee member, NCTE), Sai Chandrashekar (Executive Director–Operations, Agastya International Foundation), Prof. Mythili Ramchand (Professor and Co-Chairperson, Center of Excellence in Teacher Education, TISS, Mumbai) and Dr. Sheetal Nair (Psychotherapist, Author, Storyteller and Director, DSSG Bespoke Solutions) marked the sessions with their presence.
The experts discussed the importance of critical thinking in daily lives and how it can lead to sustainable practices, from understanding complex issues to conducting thorough research and how this approach in education will shape the leaders for tomorrow.
To teach is to learn twice over
‘Empowering Education for Tomorrow’ – with this objective, Navrachana Vidyani Coordinators, Suni Sreenivas, Rinta Chaudhuri and Surbhi Upadhyaya along with Counsellors, Dwija Trivedi and Yamini Parikh attended a workshop hosted by Navrachana Higher Secondary School on January 9.
NHSS hosted the IC3 (International Career and College Counseling) Regional Forum, uniting school counsellors, principals and educators for insightful discussions, networking, and interactions with global university representatives. The event was inaugurated by Chairperson-NES, Tejal Amin and featured keynote speeches by Dr. Harish Shetty (Practicing Psychiatrist) and IC3 Founder Ganesh Kohli. Our Principal Dr. Archana Mishra too featured as one of the panelists in the discussion “Nurturing Futures-The Integral Role of Schools in Bridging Skill Sets, Aspirations, Careers and Opportunities”. The meet aimed to enhance career and college counselling in schools and establish dedicated counselling labs.
It is truly said that, ‘Learning never exhausts the mind’ and hence such workshops enable school leaders to promote student learning and well-being.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn
Navrachana Vidyani Co-ordinators Rinta Chaudhuri and Namita Rajput, Dean of Students Vinaya Mishra, along with Math educator Purvi Arora, attended a workshop, ‘Leading Transformation: An experiential Learning Based Training Program for Capacity Building of Principals’ over January 4-6 at Cygnus World School, Vadodara.
The workshop was led by Principal, Anand Vidya Vihar, Poornima Menon and Director and Principal, Chanderbala Modi Academy, Michelle Ganeshani. Both the resource persons shared insights into how to bring about positive changes in the school system and make it the best. The session was interesting, informative and activity oriented with lots of handouts being given away to facilitate easier absorption of the content.
Indeed, such workshops give teachers a chance to learn new skills like learning various strategies to improve classroom management and adopt better teaching practices.
Educators as learning Engineers
Dr Archana Mishra, Principal NVV and Ms. Suprabha Menon, Principal NHSS attended an exclusive event, “Educators as learning Engineers,” where educators from reputed schools came together to collaborate on structuring education systems that focus on creating future-ready students.
The Keynote speaker was Dr. Bror Saxberg, a visionary leader in the education space, Vice President of Learning Science at the esteemed Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and a distinguished member of the Academic Advisory Board at Ei, South Asia’s leading Edtech company.
In his talk DR Bror emphasized on the application of research from learning science and learning measurement to enhance the effectiveness of learning.
The event presented an exceptional opportunity for NES Principals to engage in insightful discussions and share best practices with fellow educational leaders.
Introducing Integrated Learning with Simplicity
Navrachana Vidyani Math and Science teachers had an opportunity to attend a training session by Mr. Manish Jain (Associate Teaching Professor and Principal Coordinator of Centre of Creative Learning at IIT Gandhinagar) over May 5 and 6 at Navrachana School Sama.
The sessions were completely based on different ways and ideas related to toy based learning activities and pedagogy like 3D visualisation using vegetables,
The Standard Arithmetic in a Non Standard Way, Finger Multiplication, Russian Multiplication and Base Arithmetic. The integration of Art and Math included String Art Demo, Platonic Solid and Archimedean solids. At the end of the session, the teachers were handed over the books, resources and certificates.
Indeed the training session was full of excitement and a lot to take back for the students.
A view from the other side!
On May 4, Navrachana Vidyani educators occupied themselves in ‘Tinkering hour @ NVV’ in the ATL lab performing hands-on activities that are a part of the curriculum. The session featured activities that acquainted teachers with the tools, equipment and technical know-how used by students in the lab and they had great fun doing the different activities!
It was an especially interesting experience for teachers teaching subjects other than science as well as a role reversal since the attendees turned learners!
Indeed, the session proved conclusively that there is no age bar when it comes to learning or even having undiluted fun!
Listen with Patience, Speak with Empathy!
Educators at Navrachana Vidyani had the opportunity to attend an interactive workshop on ‘Soft skills at Workplace’ on May 2. Resource person Dr. Sonam Mansukhani (Associate Dean, USLM, Karnavati University), shared ways to self-introspect, stress management, attitude and social and emotional behaviour of teachers with their students and colleagues.
Indeed it was an insightful experience for teachers as it will definitely help them grow personally as well as professionally.
Endless Learning!
Navrachana Vidyani Math educators Namita Rajput (module 3 for grades 3-5) and Bhranti Shah (module 2 for grades 1-2) attended a workshop for ‘Meaningful Pedagogical Practices in Mathematics’ organised by Jodogyan (a Trust for Learning & Co-operation) at Indian Social Institute, Delhi over February 15-18.
The objective of the workshop was to convey how core concepts in Math can be imparted through exemplifying real life scenarios and through experiential learning.
The core purpose of teaching Math is to instil mathematical reasoning skills and the workshop demonstrated easy-to-implement strategies to achieve this end through games and group activities.
Learning regenerates the mind
Navrachana Vidyani Foundational Stage Coordinator Chhaya Jayswal attended a workshop on ‘Understanding and Implementing NCF 2022 for the Foundational Stage’ at Mumbai on February 4.
Resource persons Dr. Swati Popat (Professor, Early Childhood Association of India) and Dr. Reeta Sonawat (Former Dean, Professor and Head of Human Development, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai) conducted the session on the importance of curriculum goals, integration of Indian and Western ECCE systems to develop a robust curriculum, introduction to different ECCE pedagogical systems and incorporating toys and toy based curriculum, story-based pedagogy for developing critical thinking skills from childhood itself.
Such informative workshops indeed keep our teachers updated and enable them to implement the latest educational methodology in their teaching for an effective outcome.
Balancing E-learning with the personal touch
Principal Dr. Archana Mishra was invited as a Speaker and Moderator for a Panel Discussion at the 16th World Education Summit organised by National Institute of Construction Management and Research (NICMAR) in Hyderabad on February 21.
She spoke on the topic ‘Is the ‘Guru Touch’ missing in E-learning?’ wherein she dwelt on how Online Learning is impacting the education sector and the varied challenges and opportunities it presents. Making it abundantly clear that the two elements should be complementary, she said “E-learning has come up in a big way and we have various opinions about it. We hope that there is going to be an amalgamation of ‘Guru Touch’ and E-learning someday, and to achieve that, both have to keep pace with each other.”
Moving towards becoming ‘Champion teachers’ ...
A workshop on ‘Strategies to Boost Student Engagement and Achievement ‘ was conducted by Principal Dr. Archana Mishra for Navrachana Vidyani educators of Classes I-VI on October 15 and of Classes VII-XII the following day.
The interactive session focussed on ways and means to ensure student engagement so that they remain ‘in flow’ with classroom proceedings. For this, the teachers were equipped with a range of concrete strategies to ensure that learning objectives are realised in totality for all students, thereby also ensuring that the overall standard of academics further rises sharply! The workshop so motivated the faculty to aim for the ‘Champion’ tag that they hit their drawing boards to rethink and rework classroom approaches so that all students become more eager learners!
Listen with Patience, Speak with Empathy!
Educators at Navrachana Vidyani had the opportunity to attend an interactive workshop on ‘Soft skills at Workplace’ on May 2. Resource person Dr. Sonam Mansukhani (Associate Dean, USLM, Karnavati University), shared ways to self-introspect, stress management, attitude and social and emotional behaviour of teachers with their students and colleagues.
Indeed it was an insightful experience for teachers as it will definitely help them grow personally as well as professionally.
Listen with Patience, Speak with Empathy!
Educators at Navrachana Vidyani had the opportunity to attend an interactive workshop on ‘Soft skills at Workplace’ on May 2. Resource person Dr. Sonam Mansukhani (Associate Dean, USLM, Karnavati University), shared ways to self-introspect, stress management, attitude and social and emotional behaviour of teachers with their students and colleagues.
Indeed it was an insightful experience for teachers as it will definitely help them grow personally as well as professionally.
Amplifying Abilities
Counsellors Falguni Shah and Yamini Parikh attended a pre-conference workshop and a training module on ‘School Psychology Competencies’ at the ‘9th InSPA International Conference on School Psychology: Empowering Professional Skills and Competencies’ organised by Indian School Psychology Association (InSPA) at Gandhinagar over November 14 to 16. The Conference provided a 360 degree view of ‘School Psychology’ as a profession and how to adapt psychological strategies for school children. Further, Falguni Shah also presented a paper, co-authored by Principal Dr. Archana Mishra, on ‘Effect of Hypnotherapy on Psychological Well-being and Academic Performance of Students of Grade 12’.
As all trainings were conducted by eminent experts from across the globe, the two Counsellors will surely pass on the benefit of the valuable insights gained there to Vidyanians, thereby ensuring the young minds enjoy mental wellness and learn better.
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