Mentor Training Workshop at Indus World School

While children take a summer break, what do the mentors of Indus World School do? Being continuous learners they dedicate time and effort  to upgrade themselves so that they can  deliver the 21^st century curriculum frame work which is the base on which Indus World School stands. 

Ongoing mentor training is the core at Indus World School and this is done in two modes – on location and through video conferencing.  This year IWS, Aurangabad is playing host to 60 mentors from IWS Raipur, Hyderabad,  Ahmednagar ,Pune who are putting their heart and souls to make the  learning process a very enriching experience for the children across all levels. This training started on 1^st May and concluded on 10^th May 2012.

The mentors are challenging themselves to  self-growth which reflects in the growth of the children and the organization. The training is being conducted by renowned and well qualified trainers of the organization

Dr. Anju Khanna  (M. Phil & PhD with a ‘Gold Medal’)comes with over 25years of experience of education both in India and in the USA, She is a valued trainer, speaker and an author of textbooks and value based stories for children. She is also on the panel of NCERT authors for Primary education. She is a consultant with Indus World School and has developed and contributed to the syllabus designed for Ananda level (Play group – Sr. Kg).

R. ShivKumar, is a co founder CL Educate and Chairman IWS Indore, is an alumnus of IIT and IIM and comes with a decade of experience of teaching mathematics and science for engineering and medical entrance examination. Highly popular among students for his enthusiasm and tutoring approach, thousands of students continue to woe their success in part to Shivku’s personal touch. His ultimate goal in Indus World School is to make science easy and understandable at the primary level.

 Uma Ramchandran, armed with M.Tech from IIT Delhi and experienced in companies like Cipla and Ranbaxy, Uma plays a key role in academic curriculum design and training for mentors. She has conducted extensive research on trends in emerging careers and designed the IWS curriculum to map it to various career options after school. Uma heads the Academic Team across the IWS chain, she has done extensive research in the domain of early childhood development. Her expertise includes experiential math and science teaching at the primary level. She works closely with Jodo Gyan, a government empanelled organization working in the area of teaching Math and science as an active activity.

Sujit Bhattacharya, an IIT/ IIM alumni comes with an successful stints at Telco and Wipro before moving to US to set up operations for an upcoming software firm. Having set up a successful software business, Sujit returned to his passion- technology in education. He joined Career Launcher in 2000 and he has been the driving force behind CL’s technology and HR initiatives- developing academic support solutions, ERP solutions, HR management Systems and sophisticated Student Information Systems. Sujit currently is overall head of the IWS chain of Schools. He has a special interest in School Leadership Development, Parental Guidance Programs, Education Technologies and Organizational Development.

During the training , the mentors were given several tasks, which helped them understand the child’s prospective to learning. The purpose of the training was to equip the mentors to make learning an enjoyable experience for the children. In fact this training has been very essential as it helped to bring out a mentor out of every teacher.