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3 INSTANT LESSONS... Learner's Conclave (You’re welcome) Lotus Valley International School Gurugram is organising a student-led conclave on 25 and 26 October, an endeavour to provide a platform for young people to deliberate issues of national and international importance. "Such a conclave is planned for the first time in this country and FOOTIE COMP MONEY SMART MOTION CAPTURE will be attended by more than 400 learners Write a 200-word Cha-Ching is a Embrace footie fever across NCR as well as participating schools from diary entry to win a financial literacy and help develop £100 book voucher programme pupils’ skills with Germany, Spain and France," said Anita Malhotra. and a hamper of developed to help motion capture The conclave will enable future decision-makers football goodies for instil moneysmart clips featuring your school. The skills in primary Manchester United’s to analyze, discuss, critique and address a gamut competition, run pupils. The Marcus Rashford. of issues ranging from technology to artistic in aid of Mind, is in resources are The clips will allow expression, the future of education to innovation memory of author built around 16 you to take children Jonny Zucker, who animated music through a range of and entrepreneurship, and artificial intelligence suffered mental videos focusing movements step by to sports, among others. Her highness Ms Joanna health problems. on the skills and step, emphasising Kempkers, High Commissioner, New Zealand, Find more info attitudes needed key learning and mental health to manage your points. Find it at will open the event. This platform will certainly resources at money. Chaching plprimarystars.com strengthen critical and creative thinking, engender strikerboy.com education.co.uk innovation, foster social consciousness and nurture global collaboration.
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109 Teach Primary India Launch INTERVIEW 21 Live with Pooja Bedi “Studying and learning is something that I have never stopped.”- Vandana Lulla Principal Podar International School VOICES 12 San ay Bhartiya 71 Teresa Cremin “Education means exposing the mind to an You can’t force someone to love books, but you can atmosphere of creative activity.” tempt them to become a dedicated devourer of stories. 17 Carley Se ton Early educators have the power to change 72 Stephen Lockyer children’s view of the world for the better. Prepping a book for your class can unlock many benefits for you and the children.
19 Nikky Smedley 74 Christine Chen Lindsay Pickton Don’t be allow yourself to be distracted from what With these dice games, children will understand how your children are trying to tell you… changing a single preposition can make a powerful impact on the reader. 29 Barbara Isaacs Sensory experiences can lay the foundations for 76 Rachel Clarke academic success. Does your class learn how to spell words one week, only to forget the next? It’s time for a more memora- FREE 35 Dandelion Education ble strategy… In the great outdoors there are no boundaries to GI creativity. 79 Bob Co FT These ideas will help children of all abilities to engage 36 Pre-school Learning Alliance with more challenging texts. See page 104 for your Care must be taken when using smartphones and tablets to support communication skills. 80 Irena Brignull subscription o er Use the powerful appeal of movies to explore narratives in new ways… 38 Shahneila Saeed There’s more to do before we’ll be teaching 82 Pie Corbett computing as well as we should. Channel children’s imagination into writing about worlds full of wonder and secrets. 40 Thomas ohnston Yes, teens can be tempted to use their phones and 86 Felicity Ferguson Ross Young tablets for learning – but for goodness’ sake, don’t Good verbal feedback can cut your workload and try too hard to be ‘cool’… help children become accomplished writers.
41 Kirstine Beeley 88 Rebecca akes With smart devices and software you can help If you haven’t seen the writing tool that’s causing so children express their creativity in a host of ways. much excitement amongst teachers on Twitter, you should try it in class tomorrow… 56 Beth Smith Teach perimeter in a way that will recap and 90 ohn Bolton In the early years, our focus should be on developing deepen understanding. logical thinking skills.
59 Mike Aske 106 Dr. Dheera Mehrotra Encourage independent mathematical thinking by “We must engage children in classrooms that are carefully considering the activity that a task will free of fear.” generate. 114 Ms. Rakhee Chhabria 70 Beth Smith “We connect educators with one another so they www.primaryplus.com | 6 Help children nail the Y6 maths SATs by encouraging can share creative and innovative ideas.” them to use pictorial representations.
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[email protected] Powered By Aditi Misra DPS Sec45 Gurugram 17 Carley Se ton 72 Stephen Lockyer EDITOR: Action Committee of Unaided Recognised Mamta Bhatnagar Early educators have the power to change Director, Manav Sthali School children’s view of the world for the better. Prepping a book for your class can unlock many Pooja Bedi Private Schools : A Crusador benefits for you and the children. Usha Chopra Chairperson New Era Public School 19 Nikky Smedley STRATEGIC ADVISOR: S K Bhattacharya 74 Christine Chen Lindsay Pickton President Action Committee, Former Principal Bal Don’t be allow yourself to be distracted from what Dr. Deepak Narwal Yash dev Gupta With these dice games, children will understand how Bharati Public School Chairman KR Manglam World School your children are trying to tell you… changing a single preposition can make a powerful Economic Senator Europe T R Gupta William impact on the reader. Chairman Mount Carmel School 29 Barbara Isaacs Chief Advisor Action Commitee, VP, CMC DAV ASSOCIATE EDITORS: A K JETHY Sensory experiences can lay the foundations for 76 Rachel Clarke Yogdhyan Ahuja Neetu Bedi, Preeti Kwatra Chairman Mother Teraca Public School academic success. Patron Action committee, Chairman, Does your class learn how to spell words one week, Khushboo Wadhwani only to forget the next? It’s time for a more memora- Vivekanand Public school A S Rana Chairperson, Indraprastha World School FRE 35 Dandelion Education ble strategy… S L Jain E DESIGNERS: In the great outdoors there are no boundaries to Sr. VP Action Committee, Ashok Pandey GIFT creativity. 79 Bob Co Anil Chawla, Deepanshu Arora Director Mahavir Sr Sec School Principal Alchon International School These ideas will help children of all abilities to engage M S Rawat L P Verma 36 Pre-school Learning Alliance with more challenging texts. 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A conference of eminent educators from all over India Prof. M.M. Pant focused his thoughts on the era of was held on Saturday, September 1st, 2018 at Panjim ‘Artificial Intelligence’. Artificial Intelligence, also known Convention Centre, Goa. It was a festival organized as AI, is the ability of computers to perform functions by Action Committee and Mind Mingle. The educators that usually require human intelligence. These functions assembled to explore the possibilities of real educational include learning, reasoning, analyzing, decision-making, philosophy – i.e. naturalism, humanism, internationalism and visual perception and recognizing other things. In short, AI idealism – beyond the boundaries of classrooms and formal is the ability to develop and use intelligence like humans setups in an Indian context. The focus of the discussion through programmed software, which can perform human centered around new and traditional dimensions in the field cognitive abilities and apply intelligence to find a solution of education in the changing world. Educational institutions to an unfamiliar task. should not be a cage for young minds. Education means exposing the mind to an atmosphere of creative activity Hon’ble Dr. (Mrs.) Mridula Sinha in her speech stressed and a process of enlightenment that helps students achieve the growing need for value education in schools. She said a meaningful and complete life. that value education includes several things. It takes care of all aspects of life, and is transmitted to the pupils The USP of the conference was its unique approach to through a process by teachers and other adults. Sometimes involve educators to deliberate upon important issues experienced people show these values in their own behavior related to education in a rejuvenating environment. for the long-term well-being of the students. She advocated positive social change through value education. She shared The conference was inaugurated by the Hon’ble Governor inspiring experiences from her own life and appreciated of Goa, Dr. (Mrs.) Mridula Sinha. She delivered the Inaugural the sincere efforts of organisers to hold this purposeful address. conference in Goa.
The programme started with lamp-lighting ceremony by The conference was also addressed by Mr. Manit Jain, Mr. the Hon’ble Governor, Dr. (Mrs.) Mridula Sinha; Mr. S.K. Gopalan, Mr. Aaron Eden, Mr. Sachin Desai, Mr. Victor Hugo Bhattacharya; Prof. M.M. Pant; Mr. Manbir Bedi of Primary Gomes and Ms. Deepti Tiwari. They shared their unique Plus Media and other distinguished guests. Mr. S.K. ideas on various aspects of education. Bhattacharya, President Action Committee, in his welcome address felicitated all the guests, speakers and delegates. Young singers Ms. Nimisha Shankar and Ms. Akshada He culminated his speech with a reading of the famous Bandekar enthralled everyone with their musical poem ‘Where the mind is without fear’ by Tagore in Bengali. performances.
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A panel discussion on ‘Fee restriction in Private Schools’ government and other stakeholders. was also held. Mr. Bhattacharya, Mr. Amol Arora, Mr. Roshan Gandhi and Mr. Garry Jacobs were the main panelists. Mr. The conference was attended by 300 delegates from all Bhattacharya spoke about the fee issue in private schools over India. There were 50 delegates from Delhi. Action and explained at length about different components of Committee played an important role in the success of the fee fixation. He further elaborated on the adverse effects conference. The sincere efforts of Mr. Bharat Arora and of restrictions on school fees, which hamper the growth other team members were appreciated by all. The Forum of and progress of private schools and quality education. He Public Schools was also an active partner of this purposeful quoted various court judgments and highlighted statistical mission. Mr. Shakeel, Mr. Naveen Sharma and their team analysis to support his viewpoint. Other speakers also members from Mind Mingle left no stone unturned to make expressed their views on this issue. They advocated the this event a grand success. autonomy of private schools. The session was moderated by Dr. Manjula Pooja Shroff.
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