Speaking skill is considered to be the most important skill by language learners. Learners often measure their success in language learning by the extent to which they can use their spoken English. Notwithstanding, this skill is one of the most neglected in language instruction. Keeping this in mind, Vikas Bharati Public School organized an online workshop on ‘English Communication’ with Mr. Shiwank Gupta, Corporate Communication trainer. The ten days workshop started from May 5th to May 15th and was attended by the entire teaching staff. It aimed at facilitating teachers’ communication and linguistic skills.
The workshop focused on the importance of English language and how it can be used to explore global knowledge. The first half of the workshop aimed at making the educators understand the basic structure of the language and use it as an effective tool of communication to become self- assured speakers. The eloquent Mr. Gupta effectively engaged the educators in various exercises that set the mood and built anticipation amongst all. The interactive sessions helped teachers overcome their hesitation and put forward their queries which were immediately resolved by sir.
The second half of the workshop focused on improving the pronunciation. With the help of the ‘phonemic chart’ sir helped us visualize the individual sounds and practice those sounds accurately.
Mr. Gupta took complicated pronunciation problems and dissected them into simple understandable concepts.
Time flew by under Sir's able guidance and we reached the end of the workshop. Overall it was an enriching, productive and informative workshop.
CBSE workshop on Happy Classroom- Strategies of fostering happiness in the classroom held on April 23, 2020
A capacity building program on classroom management was conducted by COE, CBSE, Delhi on 23rd April, 2020. The main theme of the program was to enable teachers to build happy classrooms where students feel safe while expressing themselves. The resource person was Dr. Rasna Sehrawat, Assistant Professor, Amity University. Four teachers of Vikas Bharati Public School from all the levels attended the workshop along with around 130 teachers from various schools in West Delhi on Google Hangouts.
The workshop started with what happiness means to a person and how a student can be happy in a classroom. Various definitions of happiness were patiently analysed by the resource person and it was discussed that how it can be achieved at the level of students. After that, various strategies of increasing happiness in classroom were shared by means of a PowerPoint presentation. Many activities and suggestions were proposed by Dr. Rasna, the resource person to foster happiness in classrooms which can lead to positive long term impact on social skills, mental health and well-being of students.
At the end, all the questions of the attendees were answered in depth by Dr. Rasna. The session lasted for around 1 hour 40 minutes and was full of constructive information to provide a conducive environment to students.
‘Care To Share’
VBPS always aims for enhancing their teaching fraternity. Going forward in this direction, a brain storming session ‘Care To Share’ was conducted by the Vice Principal of the school, Ms. Amita Gupta for the teachers of P.S.-VIII on Saturday, September 21,2019. The highlights of the session were the use of Energizers and different forms of teaching and learning methods to handle the 21st century learners.
The session was successful in motivating the teachers to take learning beyond the four walls of the classroom.
Teacher Development Programme
VikasBharati Public School not only aspires to provide holistic development to the students but also conducts workshops and seminars for the teachers to enrich their knowledge and enhance their practical experience.
An array of workshops was conducted covering topics like National Education Policy, Art Integration, Experiential learning and Artificial Intelligence for the teachers of K-12 on 15 & 16 November, 2019.
The fruitful and insightful sessions enabled teachers discuss and comprehend the vital points related to the topics. The presentation on National Education Policy focussed on the purpose, objective and framework of the policy.
The topic of Art integration was explained by primary teachers, who did so using extensive videos and presentations. A presentation on Experiential learning was given by pre-primary teachers. Their vibrant puppet-show and other interacting activities made it a joyful experience for the teachers of K-12.
Artificial Intelligence was elaborated thoroughly by the computer science department. The session was an eye opener and provided good insights on the topic. Teachers were given a hands-on-experience of various apps like Immersive reader, Auto draw.
