Workshops

The school library is a central hub and combines several elements — library staff, resources, and space. Each of these plays an important part in supporting teaching and learning and combines to form an integrated whole that makes the school library most effective. The purpose of your school library is to help every member of your school community gain new knowledge, skills and dispositions for learning and personal development that they will use throughout their lives.

Reading involves multiple cognitive, emotional, and social abilities, each of which influences the beginning reader’s success. Learning to read is a sequential process; a cognitive ability to identify the sounds with their symbols, connecting them together in order to make words, sentences, and paragraphs. Strategies that help teachers to learn how to improve child’s reading skills is what this Reading Skills session is all about.

A major challenge that confronts most trainers is how to reach across to adults. It is important for trainers to equip themselves with ideas and strategies to conduct effective workshop sessions aimed at learner-centred learning. This workshop has been planned to focus on ways to adopt active approaches and skills for meaningful communication.

Developing Critical Thinking (CT) is a predominant theme in 21st Century Skills. It is an active, purposeful and organised cognitive process. Research has proved that it can be explicitly taught if given importance from a young age. This nine-hour workshop will help educators to analyse the core components of Critical Thinking and enhance their skills in developing a thinking culture in their schools and classrooms. It will also enable them to incorporate critical thinking in classrooms.

Novels and stories, if well taught, inspire students to become independent, extensive readers. This sets them firmly on the path to improvement of language skills and development of the creative imagination.

The participants will understand the importance of assessing the quality of learning and teaching. They will explore different methods and tools for collecting evidences and making valid judgements of learning and teaching in a primary classroom. This short course has been designed for novice in-service primary level teachers with one or two years of teaching experience.

School managers play a critical role in achieving the central purpose of a school and are faced with many challenges that involve more knowledge and skills than ever before. It is essential that those who are running schools or deciding polices should be up to date in their concepts and develop new ideas about school management. This 30-hour basic course on School Management will provide insight, understanding, framework and tools from which schools can develop their own strategies to ensure quality education and the satisfaction of parent and pupil expectations. It is strongly recommended for inexperienced school managers and coordinators who may become future school leaders.

In today’s world, most children do not spend the early years of their lives only at home. A huge chunk of their time is spent at schools or at daycare centres. Early Childhood Professionals have a growing importance in today’s world because they can be a tremendous support to the children right from that early age. Therefore, all teachers dealing with young children need to be aware of and develop effective child guidance skills.

The most successful classrooms are those that encourage students to think for themselves and engage in critical thinking. Students who think critically are excited about their learning and are eagerly engaged in the classroom activities. This workshop will highlight strategies to promote critical thinking in children through Art, Play Experiences and Story Telling.

Action Research is a disciplined inquiry executed by teachers with the intent that the research will inform and change their practices in the future. Action Researchers take time to reflect critically on the strategies they use in their classrooms as it allows them to realise that it is the most effective endeavor to ensure what they do is bringing desired results. Action Research is carried out within the context of the teacher’s environment with the students and at the school in which the teacher works—on questions that deal with educational matters at hand.