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My vocation has been .... making a difference to people ! I started alone, was called
a counselor restricted to students, but gradually people accepted me as a counselor
for parents and teachers as they needed more help. Once parents and teachers were
guided to understand and deal with children, solutions followed.
Thus my sphere of work broadened and I worked towards equipping teachers with the
right skills, attitude and strategies to channelize, mould and empower the youth
in our care.
Today I wear hats of HR trainer, counselor, psychologist, consultant, parenting
expert .... still I do the same, have belief and share belief, inspire belief in
people, in systems, in processes, and in out of box approaches.
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Popular Teacher Development Initiatives
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Mrs. Priya offers workshops and interactive sessions on the following topics: -
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Class management techniques
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Positive self esteem for Progressive Educators - Self Development insights
by using introspective tools and psychometric testing
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Teaching as a TEAM
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Proactive Classrooms - Creating a caring environment in the classroom
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Managing the whole class - Motivation strategies for the average, above average
and under average students.
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Emotional Intelligence - insights, impact and strategies in real classrooms
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Discipline in school - Kohlberg’s model of moral development in children
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Positive Class control - leading Vs managing approaches for students
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Multiple Intelligence's - insights, impact and strategies in real classrooms
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Circle Time - rapport building , starting class techniques with emphasis
on conflict resolution in schools
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Discipline By design - proactive and positive disciplining using love and
logic.
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Teacher as a counselor - understanding basic secondary needs and motivators
in children at different developmental stages.
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Counseling skills for being a pastoral counselor ( two day workshop )
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Parents as co educators - Handling Parental anxieties and concerns in a humane
manner, building good Interpersonal communication
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Parent Involvement in schools – insights for teachers
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Sexuality education for educators - why and how in a school setting.
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Teaching specially able - identification of symptoms of learning difficulties
,remedial teaching and providing parents support.
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Special needs and special deeds - dealing with special children, setting
remedial and academic accommodations in schooling set up.
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IMPACT - Instruction, actions and communications in classroom
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Adolescent issues – understanding crisis and capabilities
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Many agencies cater to training's that teach a teacher, to teach a subject better,
score better marks, get 100 % results and so on. However in this madness and rat
race there are few sole operators like me who keep on talking, inspiring, giving
real life examples and showing teachers the real areas that actually matter at the
end of the day when exams and school end. If reminded the teachers do understand
that it is important to touch a child, heal a child, make subjects interesting,
give him the message that he is capable, remove fear of failure so that at least
he / she tries .... success or failure would follow.
It’s a heartening reward for
me when many teachers who somewhere have taken inspiration from my training programs,
who feel these training's have rekindled their faith in this profession have been
awarded. I wish them all success and wish that they remain inspired, motivated and
continue to commit themselves for smiles of these little ones. (my definition of
little ones is children from 3years to 18years, yes ! at all these age more than
ever before, they need to be treated as young kids who are learning).
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