Pure mathematics is, Hyderabad in its way, the poetry 3 july wrk 1 of logical ideas. Subject English Maths -Albert Einstein Science
SUBJECT English Maths Science Factors, Multiples and Factorisation: Day 1 wrk 1 Dealing with the Concepts, Factoring in Multiple Scenarios. 3 july HYD
Introduction How many times have we come across terms in children as per their strengths while learning- visual aids, Mathematics that remain mere names and how many hands-on activities, fun games as well as certain curricular times do we get lost in procedures forgetting all about resources and delve on pedagogy too. What did the concept mean? Factors and Multiples are the common topic that finds uses in various other Who is it for Math topics and concepts like fractions, prime numbers, The workshop is meant for teachers of grades 5-8 Algebra and so on. The workshop helps to bring a connect Teaching Mathematics as well as teacher educators. between the concept and procedures, between whole the number and algebraic variables. Program Benefits Program Details It will help participants in the following ways - develop a The workshop will concentrate on the topic of factors and deeper understanding of the concepts - provide guidance multiples, what they mean and how to understand 'LCM.' on how to approach a module while designing - ideas for And 'HCF' and discuss their significance. It will go on Simple activities using readily available materials - to cover factors in algebra and factorization and find a Enriching pedagogy and content knowledge - create a connect between factors of variables and whole numbers. happier learning experience for children. It will involve activities and games that can be used with
Trainer : Kshama Chakravarthy, Bengaluru. [email protected]
Kshama Chakravarthy holds an M.Sc degree in conducting workshops, developing Mathematics from IIT Madras and an M.A degree in innovative teaching materials and Education from Azim Premji University, Bangalore. She Production of research reports. She has was an Educational Specialist at Educational Initiatives worked with Anubhava Science Foundation from June Pvt. Ltd. for 3 years in the content development team of 2015 to April 2017, conducting sessions for children in Mindspark, a computer-based learning program for Maths in government schools and a private school and Students from Classes 1 to 10 in Mathematics. Her work Conducting teacher training in Mathematics. Since April included utilizing expertise to develop o erings that 2017 she is with Cuemath as Project Manager. would help in improving teaching and learning standards in schools by developing innovative tests and exercises,
skillfest a festival of learning The art and science of Hyderabad asking questions is the 3 july wrk 2 source of all knowledge. CURRICULUM & ASSESSMENT -Thomas Berger
CURRICULUM & ASSESSMENT Day 1 wrk 2 The Art and Science of Making Questions 3 july HYD
Introduction Why should we ask questions? Is it to check what questions. It will discuss the strategies one can take to students know or what students understand? Is it to find make discerning issues and the systematic approach out what they don’t know or to know what they are one should take to question making. capable of understanding? Is it to know which topics to re-teach or which topics to teach di erently? It is only by Who is it for asking the right kind of questions that we can get great This workshop is for teachers, teacher educators, and answers to solve the mystery of what students have assessment specialists. learned. Making these right kinds of questions is as much a creative process as it is a systematic approach and Program Benefits hence is an art and science in itself. Understand the qualities of a good question. Program Details Familiarize with the di erent strategies used to make right questions. The workshop will be divided into two parts. The first part Understand the importance of the distracters in a will focus on understanding the qualities of a good question. question. With activities focusing on di erent types of Learn di erent ways to make the assessment process a questions, this part will unravel the qualities of good fun activity for the students and bring out insights for the questions. The second part will focus on how to make good teachers.
Trainer : Nishchal Shukla, Bengaluru. nishchal@ei-india.com
Nishchal Shukla is an educator at heart, skilled question interactions to team and project maker at the profession. management. He is a gold medalist in Life Sciences from 2005 He has conducted various kinds of workshops for a batch of Gujarat University. government as well as private school teachers on topics He is passionate about how children think and how they ranging from how to make a good question to how to learn. draw insights from data. He has spent over a decade at EI working on various aspects from tool development, data analysis, product development, capacity building workshops, student
Skillfest a festival of learning A capacity to care is the thing which gives life its Hyderabad deepest meaning and 3 july wrk 3 SUBJECT significance English Maths Science -Pablo Casasis
SUBJECT English Maths Science Day 1 wrk 3 Magic of Pen to Paper - Approaches to Reflective Writing 3 july HYD
Introduction Who is it for Reflective writing is practiced diligently by many This workshop is designed for parents, librarians, class individuals across the globe. Authors such as Julia teachers and language teachers from grades 5 to 12, Cameron and others have copiously vouched for the role educators who would like to develop a high reflective of regular writing practice. This indeed grows our artistic writing practice in the framework of the child’s language potential, communication, clarity of thought, and proficiency, and parents who wish to grow the writing skill self-reflection. Both as a training for the classroom and and nurture self-reflection. one that can continue on the home front, reflective writing is a meta-writing ability that is worth Program Benefits honing. Through this, we not only learn to write but to observe what and how we write, how and what our For the teacher: Learns to introduce writing and writing responses are. Thus it serves the art of life and living well. practices, and sustain the interest through inspiring literature, motivation, and other methodologies. For the learner: The learner begins to like engaging with Program Details writing practices voluntarily and develops confidence and ease of communication. She learns to identify The focus of the workshop: How can we bring children to and express complex ideas and emotions e ectively, builds curriculum and outside. Writing and regular writing self-knowledge and knowledge of specific concepts in the practice? curriculum.
What are writing-relatedtasks/responses/activities, which can gently generate interest in writing and observation reflective writing? What are some sustainable reflective writing practices for the classroom, home, buddy task, group/team? Sharing of literature that inspires and generates interest in these methods both for the student and the teacher.
Trainer : Deepa Kiran, Hyderabad [email protected]
Founder of Story Arts India, Deepa Kiran is a professional Culture, for central training government storyteller, writer, and educationalist; engaged with school teachers, and guest expert for employing story - arts as a pedagogical intervention, International Training Program at EFLU, English profoundly impacting both the learner and the teacher. and Foreign Languages University. She has held her teacher-training workshops and musical - She has authored a children’s print-cum-audio book, Storytelling performances across the world. ‘The Royal Mistake’. Among other things, she is a visiting faculty at TISS, an She also presents her talks in forums like TEDx Talk. empanelled resource person with CCRT, Ministry of Skillfest a festival of learning The brains of human beings seem built to Hyderabad
4 july wrk 4 process stories better
Subject New Age than other forms of input
- Thomas B Newman SUBJECT New Age Day 2 wrk 4 Science through Games and Storytelling 4 july HYD
Introduction It is a universally accepted fact that games and stories assessment of learning. They will be able to explore areas engage young learners. The reason to promote where higher order thinking can be applied. In turn, they educational games is to encourage students to learn will develop leadership, project management and outside the classroom. There is also evidence that games self-evaluation techniques in the teaching-learning allow students to focus well enough to learn better. It has process. been found that rewriting a lesson with a story context combined with a challenge for the student to overcome Who is it for (in other words, making it into a game), significantly improves the learning performance of children. Making This course is mainly for science facilitators teaching learning fun motivates students and helps them pay primary, secondary students, heads of departments and attention & stay focused on scientific concepts. The anybody who has a flair for science. course thus encourages the participants to think of Program Benefits creative ideas on these principles. Will be able to explore new and creative ways to teach Program Details science. Will, in the process, hone their creative thinking skills. The basic concepts that will be dealt with during the Will be able to explore opportunities to develop a better course will be discussed and how the di culty level understanding of the subject. Gradually increases with the di erent age groups. They Will also be able to explore newer ways of assessment will receive practical examples how storyboards and techniques. games can be created and will get hands-on experience Will be able to understand the importance of to work on several concepts using stories and games. collaborative learning through games. Participants will identify opportunities within schools to Will be able to create challenges in science using quickly develop creative thinking among their students. Thus found resources. opening avenues of using games and stories for Trainer : Pradnya Gokhale, Pune. [email protected]
An electronics engineer, Pradnya Gokhale was a vice and has conducted more than 20 principal at New Era School, Vadodara and has worked in workshops embedding core skills in the schools in Abu Dhabi. curriculum. She currently works with Kalmadi schools in Pune as a She is a teacher facilitator in science and mathematics head in teacher training and curriculum development teaching. developing curriculum for the gifted. She has conducted more than 100 workshops for teachers She is a core team member in education domain of IITB across India on activity based teaching learning in (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) and has mathematics and science, team building and life skills. designed Chemplay. She was awarded the global teacher accreditation award by Cambridge Foundation UK for her action research. She is a British Council training facilitator Skillfest a festival of learning The Curious Paradox is that when I accept Hyderabad myself just as I am, then 4 july wrk 5 CURRICULUM I can Change. & ASSESSMENT
-Carl Rogers
CURRICULUM & ASSESSMENT Day 2 wrk 5 Project-Based Learning 101 4 july HYD
Introduction Who is it for The PBL programme focuses on developing educational This workshop is designed for school leaders, subject teams as change agents. This one-day programme blends experts, aspiring middle/senior leaders, leadership content and actions, changing classroom practices and teams/coordinators, teachers. making students equal partners in the process of teaching and learning. Participants design their own personal learning plan and execute a project-based leadership a project that addresses an authentic need or issue at their local setups. Program Benefits
Participants will have clear understanding of PBL (101) Program Details What is PBL and what is not PBL? PBL training is designed to explore and share collabora- What are driving questions/essential questions 6As of PBL tive, Student-Centred, project-based pedagogies. This Project management and concerns and issues the programme will help educators, coordinators and Products and its connections with classroom teaching and principals engage in authentic, purposeful conversations learning about student work, curricula design and shared the Exhibition/real-world connections purpose. Assessment of PBL Back
Trainer : Shekhar Hardikar, Ahmedabad. [email protected]
He is well-versed with Project Based Learning having to be He also dabbles into writing short stories trained at various international organizations including and maintains a blog. High Tech High, USA. He currently Heads the International Baccalaureate (IB) He has conducted Professional Development Programs for School at TGES at Rajkot. teachers of schools all over India. He is passionate about reading and creating modules for He has contributed extensively to building up a teacher training, advocacy, bringing awareness in society, comprehensive teacher development program at TGES with a particular emphasis on creating di erent career paths. Skillfest a festival of learning “It is utterly false and arbitrary to put all the play
Hyderabad and learning into childhood,
4 july wrk 6 all the work into the middle
SUBJECT age, and all regrets into New Age old age.”
-Margaret Mead
SUBJECT New Age Day 2 wrk 6 Making Videos for Teaching and Learning 4 july HYD
Introduction Who is it for Videos have become an integral part of teaching and For middle school and high school teachers teaching any learning processes. This workshop aims at teaching subject and willing learners. participants to make videos. They will be introduced to Please bring your laptop/device/smart phones as they the tools of making their videos and using them help in e ective participation. e ectively in their classrooms for their students. Program Benefits As part of the workshop, they will make one video and upload it to YouTube. Understand the simple science behind making videos, create your videos and share them with your class, participate in competitions and be part of the larger Program Details a community that is tech savvy! Why make videos? Why my video? Why does technology help? What are the benefits? How do students connect? Videos for teaching concepts, misconceptions, remediation, and assessment How to use the Smartphone to record and edit videos? How to write a script? It's importance? How to rehearse? Writing a script Recording and uploading videos
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As an educator, Shridhar Jagtap believes that school Shridhar has 15 years of exposure to leaders should be where the action is – in the classroom! working in a professional environment on the He has 10 years of classroom and leadership experience in shop-floor of a multi-national industry. a school system that is pioneering and ahead of its time. He has a vast exposure and special interest in concepts like Self-Managing Teams (SMT), Teaching for Understanding (TFU), flipped classrooms, master teaching, project based learning and team building.
Skillfest a festival of learning A point well worth remembering is that a Hyderabad "safe" classroom 5 july wrk 7 environment is one where SUBJECT it is ok to fall. New Age -Esther Wright
SUBJECT New Age Day 3 wrk 7 Increasing Attention Span and Retention through Kinesthetic Learning 5 july HYD
Introduction The most natural way for a child to learn is through build lesson plans for Math and Science through movement. A movement is a powerful tool for brain movement. Movement games for children. Session ending development. It integrates and anchors new information with a fun dance and movement session for all the into our neural networks. It is now realized to be not only teachers. A sure short way to elevate your happy helpful but essential for increasing learning, develop hormones, get refreshed and energized for your learning. creative thought and a high level of reasoning (Hannaford). But, from the earliest grades, school children are taught not Who is it for to move their bodies during class, thus creating a body This workshop is for all teachers teaching any subject. We split (using more of the upper body). Even the teaching have the module designed for Preschool and Primary methods adopted sitting and learning (reading, writing, art, school. It will give teachers a tremendous resource in craft), further adds to the body split. This workshop will making learning and teaching fun and e ective no matter help teachers to bring full body integrative learning to the what the subject you teach. class room.
Program Details Program Benefits
An interactive training workshop which will cover content Get introduced to a powerful and e ective classroom as follows: Theories and research to understand how management tool. More disciplined and eager to learn movement is a powerful brain development tool. The sixth students. Higher attention span. Ready lesson plans for sense - Vestibular system and Proprioception. Resources teaching Math and Science. Enhanced memory. Learn to for Movement break across all age group. Learning to build lesson plans using Kinesthetic learning.
Trainer : Swara Patel, Mumbai [email protected]
An MBA, Professional Dancer, Entrepreneur, Dance academy has built a clientele of more than Educationalist, Swara Patel is a member of the 5000 students, working at 4 centers and 5 International Dance Council, Dance Therapist, certified BY schools. CDI France and CMTAI and a Kinesthetic trainer for school She has also introduced- Agile Kids- a Dance and Creative teachers. Movement program specially designed for schools with an She was inspired to start Rhythmus Happy Feet Dance objective to give children an active learning environment Academy (RHF) in 2011 along with her partner with focus and bringing in kinesthetic teaching and learning back to On age appropriate music and syllabus. In just 5 years, the the classroom.
Skillfest a festival of learning “Children are more alike than di erent in terms Hyderabad of how they think and 5 july wrk 8 learn.” CURRICULUM & ASSESSMENT -Daniel T Willingham
CURRICULUM & ASSESSMENT Day 3 wrk 8 Remediation through Assessment- A skill for Reflective Teacher 5 july HYD
Introduction Who is it for Feedback is an essential tool for stakeholders to reflect This workshop is designed for all teachers from upon learning the process, this science of feedback is elementary and middle school, aspiring teachers for being crucial for all teachers to understand as it is instrumental in reflective practitioners, teachers wanting to become Making them a reflective teacher. Feedback and 21st-century facilitators. remediation are two coins of assessment and workshop aims at highlighting skills required to become an expert in this area.
Program Details Program Benefits Reflecting upon student work: Understanding the teaching and learning process, understanding misconceptions, the The workshop will help participants - need for remediation, the process of remediation and its Reflect on the process of remediation through reflection upon assessment. assessment. Working in groups: Creating lesson plans that create Understand misconceptions and need of remediation. deeper learning, understanding assessment and forming of Uncover challenges in learning, adopt appropriate questions, and stages of remediation. strategies to address learning gaps. Create reflective reports: Understanding teaching Introspect on reflective teaching and plan strategies practices of individuals, understanding learner needs, and using techniques that will bring active participation from students like the screen to text/text to screen.
Trainer : Mollins Turner, Ahmedabad. [email protected]
He is a teacher educator having 15 years of experience in He has traveled across India and abroad teaching and assessment. interacting with schools/teachers about He has a Masters in English Literature and Bachelors in gaps in learning and conducted professional Education. development programmes for teachers. He has 10 years of teaching experience at ICSE, IGCSE He is passionate about training, reading, 21st-century and undergraduate level, and more than 5 years of learning skills, empowering the community with life-skills experience in assessment and learning with Educational and spending quality time with children at home. Initiatives.
Skillfest a festival of learning There is more to life than Hyderabad increasing its speed. 5 july wrk 9
- Gandhi LEADERSHIP & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
LEADERSHIP & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR Day 3 wrk 9 Special Education and Inclusion in Classrooms 5 july HYD
Introduction Who is it for A classroom needs di erentiation and this workshop aims Parents, primary teachers (all subjects), librarians, schools, at sensitizing teachers, parents and the school leadership teams and all educators; who would like to oral administration to needs that di erent students have from storytelling and its immense possibilities in the learning instructions to assessment. If we know how to assess environment. For teachers/parents who wish to bring the them what they know our classrooms will be unique. This world of stories and the magic of listening, as a powerful yet the workshop will give hands-on experience to teachers gentle pedagogical intervention in education. from setting up classrooms and understanding the needs of special needs students to other accommodations Program Benefits required for these students. Case studies, situations and role plays will help participants understand and Participants will have a deeper understanding of the needs empathize as they practice learning of students with special needs. Participants will be able to apply their learning from the workshop in their classroom for e ective learning. Participants will share Program Details their experiences and build on best practices as they understand Accommodations for students through various A) Introduction and Working in teams for Classroom aspects and proceedings of the day. management through Discussions and Presentations (B) Presentations on “How to Accommodate in Classrooms.” (C) Working in small groups to create understanding of physical infrastructure and impact on accommodations (D) Working on Creating Classroom rules for e ective learning environment. (E) Participants will work on a given the situation to understand the learning from the sessions and to implement the same in daily classroom situations (F) Presentations and open session for reflections.
Trainer : Esha Shaunik, New Delhi. [email protected]
In a career spanning 35 years in schools across the country Headmistress and Head of School in the my focus, personally, has been to teach with a ‘hands-on di erent schools I served in. approach – learning by doing. Lessons learned through experience are the ones that stay with us for a lifetime, to Today the need of the hour is to create ‘Aware, Alert, and be recalled when the need arises. Thinking Students’; and who better to do this than the Facilitators in Classrooms – the teachers. I was able to build on this concept, during my administrative tenures of Academic Head, Section Head, Skillfest a festival of learning Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing, there is a field. Hyderabad I'll meet you there. 6 july wrk 10
-Rumi LEADERSHIP & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
LEADERSHIP & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR Day 4 wrk 10 New Age School Leadership 6 july HYD
Introduction The workshop explores the numerous qualities of Strengths and grey areas. Transpersonal Leadership, which distinguishes an How to co-create solutions. Outstanding leader from an average one. Recognizing How to enhance team e ectiveness and cohesiveness. the need for a leadership style which moves away from the traditional authoritarian, hierarchical one, to one Who is it for which is more dynamic and focuses on building and This Workshop is designed for heads of schools, leading e ective, unified teams, it will enable participants administrators, coordinators, teachers and other adults to move from the Transactional to the Transformational who work in a school setting and would like to lead style of Leadership. It aims to put in place for the themselves e ectively. participants, a sca olding for further development towards becoming authentic educational leaders and Program Benefits creating professional learning communities. Participants will have an enhanced awareness of- Program Details Their leadership style. Participants will have an enhanced awareness of- Strengths and grey areas. Their leadership style. How to co-create solutions. How to enhance team e ectiveness and cohesiveness.
Trainer : Uma Oza, Ahmedabad. [email protected]
Uma Oza, a Teacher Educator, and Personal Growth Understanding from Harvard University the facilitator is deeply committed to help schools build and Personal Counseling from St Xavier’s Professional learning communities, based on safety, trust college Mumbai. and belonging. She is trained in Human process lab (ISABS) “Theme In her, over two decades’ experience, she has lead Centered Interaction’ (Ruth Cohen Institute)’ The 7 Habits ‘Process work’ and Pedagogy, leadership and soft skills of Highly E ective People’ (Stephen Covey) and ‘Non workshops in the top CBSE, ICSE and IB schools. Violent Communication’ (Centre for Non-Violent She holds a Masters in English Literature, Bachelors in Communication). Education and is also trained in the Montessori Method of To make a change in the way learning is perceived and teaching. experienced by children and adults, she co- founded She has undergone several Professional and self Kaleidoscope. development programmes such as Teaching for
Skillfest a festival of learning Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the Hyderabad world. Today I am wise, 6 july wrk 11
LEADERSHIP & so I am changing myself. ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR -Rumi
LEADERSHIP & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR Day 4 wrk 11 Personal Mastery - A Key to Professional Excellence 6 july HYD
Introduction Personal Mastery – a key to professional excellence. The Participants learn to balance work and life which relieves level of enthusiasm, involvement, and confidence of the a lot of stress and dramatically improves the quality of students in the classroom is directly proportional to the their work as well as their life. attitudes, beliefs and values that the teacher Who is it for subconsciously holds. This workshop stands as a mirror which will reflect the participants’ thinking styles, their The workshop is for teachers of all grades, schools heads, perception and ways of reacting with the people. A teacher and for those who want to excel in their career and live a is a constant juggler, juggling with the students, parents more happy life. management, spouse, kids, family members, etc. This Program Benefits workshop provides strategies and techniques for teachers to balance the various roles that a teacher has to play. The Participants learn: key to professional excellence lies in personal mastery. Goal setting strategies Stress management strategies Program Details Visualization technique This workshop starts by encouraging the participants to Positive reconditioning methods. reflect upon their life and construct a crystal clear vision They experience a paradigm shift in their approach to for their career and personal life. They identify the work and start giving their optimum. They tend to build a psychological conditionings of their mind and learn new and positive bond with the so-called mischievous positive reconditioning techniques. The workshop focuses children in class. They instantly get relieved of their stress on giving an insight into the belief system and routing out and experience a higher degree of contentment in their the limiting beliefs to excel in their work at school. life.
Trainer : Shanti Swaroop Sriramula, Hyderabad. [email protected]
Shanti Swaroop Sriramula is an entrepreneur, executive personality assessment for children. coach, and counseling psychologist. He is a certified Memory skills Trainer from He is a post graduate from Hyderabad Central University Life Yessence Academy, Bangalore. and did Post Graduation in Psychology from Kakatiya He is a Sidha Samdhi Yoga trainer and has conducted University. more than 40 workshops on yogic approach to He is the founder Director of L’avenir Education and personality enhancement. Training Solutions, Hyderabad. He is passionate about the hidden potential of human He has more than 12 years of Teaching experience in mind, loves to meditate, read, and speak his heart out. various schools across India and UK and is a certified a practitioner of MMTIC, a psychometric
Skillfest a festival of learning “A project is complete
Hyderabad when it starts working 6 july wrk 12 for you, rather than you LEADERSHIP & ORGANIZATIONAL working for it.” BEHAVIOUR -Scott Allen
LEADERSHIP & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR Day 4 wrk 12 Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision making 6 july HYD
Introduction Who is it for The role of critical thinking in education and life. This It is for educators who want to learn critical thinking workshop is all about improving critical thinking and (educating self) and teach critical thinking (activities, problem-solving in schools. Thinking critically should be tools, and strategies). taught in the context of the subject matter. The key is to understand when to use critical thinking strategies and how to do it successfully. Program Benefits
The primary objective of this workshop is to ensure e ectively pedagogical approaches for our students, which Program Details will develop their critical, analytical, problem solving and The day will be brisk and varied. Will use an experiential Decision-Making skills. The workshop is meant to take out The approach, asking teachers to take part in activities our teachers from the routinized instructional programme that serve as springboards for discussions and way to a more action oriented, inquiry-based and reflective forward in embedding critical thinking and the approach towards learning which seems more problem-solving skills into their daily lessons. The training beneficial for conceptual learning and developing the will feature a good number of practical activities and ideas 21-century skills in them. that could be immediately applied to their classroom teaching.
Trainer : Pushpa Gopal, Chennai. [email protected]
Pushpa Gopal is an inspiring and thought-provoking She is passionate about improving young- trainer with expertise in primary leadership, pupil sters’ lives through the power of education creativity, and curriculum design. and exploring how teachers and schools can She is a trainer validated by Imagine Education, UK, she is develop more e ective ways of engaging and structuring a local facilitator for the British Council schools the learning of young people. programmes. She also works in a training and consultancy capacity with other schools and organizations like Tony Blair Faith Foundation and TGELF.
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