BPS workshops sharpen teachers’ skills – The Peninsula

BPS workshops sharpen teachers’ skills – The Peninsula

Doha: The teachers of Birla had four days of skill development session dawned with the thought ‘Learn how to teach so that you can teach how to learn’ by the Academic Director Principal, Harish Sanduja as a kick-start for the new academic session.

Maria Thomas, Vice-Chairperson initiated the Ice Breaking Activity - ‘The person who knows it all takes it all’. On 10th August, Vice-Principal, Edna Fernandez highlighted on ‘the major skills that the students should possess when they graduate from a school’. The whole teaching fraternity was divided into groups to discuss, prepare and present on the final ideas.

The counsellor, Ankitha Hariharan took a very insightful class on Specific Learning Disabilities, Range of Disabilities the students face, Psychological counselling at school.

The theme for day two was Team Buliding, which was led by a series of activities Shruti Chauhan and Lissy Mathew. Lakshmi Devi and Ranchini Binu threw insights on the 3C’s of Classroom Management. Teachers actively participated in open discussion on examples of instances where they effectively managed the class in difficult situations.

An eye-opening session on Child and Adolescent Mental Health was taken by Dr. Jithendra Nagpal and Aprajitha Dixit — the session explained the flags of certain learning spectrum,