REPORT OF
1 AUGUST 2020
Respected
Course director Mrs. Bharti Kukkal, respected
resource persons Mr. Nand Kishore Baludi, Mrs. Archana
Kumari, Mrs. Kavita Parasher, and all fellow participants, a very good morning
to everyone. The secret of staying young
forever is to be a learner forever and us teachers-young and old have assembled
here, on-line, to learn under the able guidance of our learned Course Director
and resource persons. Yesterday was no
different, and the process of learning to be better people and teacher
continued.
The day
started with a beautiful morning prayer presented by the EvS
group-Shooting stars. The theme of the Morning Prayer
was Unity in Diversity and included a Prayer song, a Thought for the day, the News,
Today’s word, a Quiz, Report presentation and Creative attendance.
Thereafter,
the Course Director, Mrs. Bharti Kukkal made time
from her busy schedule and
initiated a feed-back session about the In-service training programme and kindly listened to our views and suggestions.
Our first
session was with Mr. M.L Meena who guided us through
the nuances of Google quiz and added to our arsenal of apps and extensions, to
make our Google class more effective and efficient. He cleared the doubts of
teachers and left us feeling more in control of our Google classes than ever
before. He also demonstrated the ease and efficacy of ‘Whiteboard.fi’, and we
all quickly fell in love with it.
The second
session was by the renowned psychologist, Mrs. Roma Kumar who enlightened us
about the issues related to causes, identification and assistance to be
provided for children with learning disabilities. She also deliberated in
detail the consequences of non-identification of such children in time.
Participants eagerly shared their personal experiences while dealing with
children with special abilities and Mr.Roma
Kumar guided them as to how to deal with them with a lot of empathy.
In the third
session Mr. Nand Kishore Balodi,
guided us through the intricacies and importance of Action-research. He
encouraged participants to take up Action-research and gave us ideas for the
same.
Later, we
organized a surprise on-line party for Mrs. Bharti Kukkal;
on the occasion of her birthday, giving the class a festive atmosphere.
We had lunch
soon after.
At 2’ O
clock we had our Subject group meetings and planned for the next day’s
activities.
As the class
ended we parted, eager to meet again and partake of the knowledge that our wise
trainers have planned to share with us.