Experience with TERI
I attended National School Educators conference 2013....
Innovation and leadership for " Education for Sustainable development"
28 - 30 October 2013, New Delhi.
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Leaders in education inspire confidence , motivate and provide guidance towards a laid vision and goal.With the world becoming more and more dynamic and change happening in rapid pace, teachers leadership has become Indispensable in steering the current education systems towards the desired goals and providing required guidence to the students
Traditionally education in school was guided by the teachers who transmitted
" Packaged knowledge" to the students. But
Keeping pace with the changing world ; teachers have to play the role of mentor and guide. Teachers encourage creativity to ensure that students are well engaged and ready to face challenges.
Innovation in education is essential in creating better learning opportunities for the students
" Doing things differently in order to do them better"
-- Hargreaves , 2008
Teachers as leaders need to guide their teaching towards innovative methods:
Through a multidisciplinary/ interdisciplinary and participatory apporach.
" Achieving sustainable development requires a change in the way we think and act.....only education and learning at all levels and in all social context can bring about this critical change"
Keeping this in mind , the National School Educators conference 2013 was organised by TERI at new Delhi
I, Mrs. Medha s. Kulkarni and Mrs .Madhavi Desai attended this conference on 28 th to 30 October 2013 at RETREAT (Resource Efficient TERI Retreat for Environmental Awareness and Training ) centre.
We attended different sessions and participated in the activities which enriched our knowledge and develop ourselves to guide the students. There were many " Email sessions and panel discussion" planned for us. In one of sessions Dr.Kartikeya Sarabhai said " we never give chance to the students to think in a different way. He quoted an example that a child sees a crow sitting on the cow's back. So he thinks that " crow eats cow" . We immediately correct it and try to stop thinking . But " creativity is more important than knowledge".
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Environmental education ( EE) can not be done apart from society. EE is a part of all subjects. Informal way of teaching play important role in environmental education. To experience this all participants were divided into the group ; were asked to present a skit on the given social topic like " wastage of water"and we should show the subject in interdisciplinary manner. We enjoyed such participatory sessions
Communication and clear vision are the key factors to develop ourselves and to change others . We attended life skills sessions like communication skills , design thinking, innovation in education
Valedictory session was addressed by Director General of TERI, R.K Pachauri and later itwasi addressed by mr. Bhattacharyya, secretary, Ministry of human resource development, government of India. Where he said that "Effective classroom teaching is that which bring change in teacher itself."
I thank management of Shree Vijay Vallabh School to give us opportunity to attend such life changing experience and to bring change in ourselves to teach in effective manner. So the next generation will positive change in world to make it eco friendly.
Next year I was assigned duty as TERI co-ordinator of the school. I took initiative to run different activities in co-ordination with TERI . I organised different programs with the help of the students like....
I attended National School Educators conference 2013....
Innovation and leadership for " Education for Sustainable development"
28 - 30 October 2013, New Delhi.
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Leaders in education inspire confidence , motivate and provide guidance towards a laid vision and goal.With the world becoming more and more dynamic and change happening in rapid pace, teachers leadership has become Indispensable in steering the current education systems towards the desired goals and providing required guidence to the students
Traditionally education in school was guided by the teachers who transmitted
" Packaged knowledge" to the students. But
Keeping pace with the changing world ; teachers have to play the role of mentor and guide. Teachers encourage creativity to ensure that students are well engaged and ready to face challenges.
Innovation in education is essential in creating better learning opportunities for the students
" Doing things differently in order to do them better"
-- Hargreaves , 2008
Teachers as leaders need to guide their teaching towards innovative methods:
Through a multidisciplinary/ interdisciplinary and participatory apporach.
" Achieving sustainable development requires a change in the way we think and act.....only education and learning at all levels and in all social context can bring about this critical change"
Keeping this in mind , the National School Educators conference 2013 was organised by TERI at new Delhi
I, Mrs. Medha s. Kulkarni and Mrs .Madhavi Desai attended this conference on 28 th to 30 October 2013 at RETREAT (Resource Efficient TERI Retreat for Environmental Awareness and Training ) centre.
We attended different sessions and participated in the activities which enriched our knowledge and develop ourselves to guide the students. There were many " Email sessions and panel discussion" planned for us. In one of sessions Dr.Kartikeya Sarabhai said " we never give chance to the students to think in a different way. He quoted an example that a child sees a crow sitting on the cow's back. So he thinks that " crow eats cow" . We immediately correct it and try to stop thinking . But " creativity is more important than knowledge".
In the sustainable development following factors are to considered
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- Enforcement ( legal mechanism)
- Different policies
- Technology
- Drivers of change system
- Financial mechanism
Environmental education ( EE) can not be done apart from society. EE is a part of all subjects. Informal way of teaching play important role in environmental education. To experience this all participants were divided into the group ; were asked to present a skit on the given social topic like " wastage of water"and we should show the subject in interdisciplinary manner. We enjoyed such participatory sessions
Communication and clear vision are the key factors to develop ourselves and to change others . We attended life skills sessions like communication skills , design thinking, innovation in education
Valedictory session was addressed by Director General of TERI, R.K Pachauri and later itwasi addressed by mr. Bhattacharyya, secretary, Ministry of human resource development, government of India. Where he said that "Effective classroom teaching is that which bring change in teacher itself."
I thank management of Shree Vijay Vallabh School to give us opportunity to attend such life changing experience and to bring change in ourselves to teach in effective manner. So the next generation will positive change in world to make it eco friendly.
Next year I was assigned duty as TERI co-ordinator of the school. I took initiative to run different activities in co-ordination with TERI . I organised different programs with the help of the students like....
- Competition - BEST out of waste.
- Drawing competition on environmental topics.
- Collection of Tetra Pak packages
- Collection of Junk newspaper .
- Main project - Model of Environment friendly Earth....we presented that in school's science exhibition.
- Presentation of all above activities in a particular manner and submitting it to TERI
For the all above work , I was awarded as the Tetra Pak Teacher of the year 2014-2015
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