A workshop was organised a on ‘Effective Mentoring’ for all teachers of PWS Sherkhi, Sama and Maneja . The venue being PWS Maneja, offered good ambience. The workshop started at 1:30p.m with an inaugural function felicitating the resource person Ms. Shreya Lalwani and the invited PIC managers Ms. Keka Chakraborty , Ms. Joshephine Fernandes Principals of Sherkhi and Sama, Ms. Preeta Pillai and Ms. Rekha Shah respectively by the venue incharge ,Principal of Maneja Ms. Michelle Ganeshani.
The teachers were divided into 6 to 7 groups consisting of teachers from the three centres and were subjected to many activities. One of the activities being the narration of the “Hare and tortoise” story which was narrated by a teacher from Sherkhi, Dr Durgeshwari. After the story, the narrator was made to sit on a hot chair as a character hare in the story and the audience were encouraged to ask application based questions posing as media persons. This was done to enhance questioning skills and participation of all the learners in the class. Followed by second activity which was coming out with the name of a new festival, the attire, food and props used in its celebration, and finally a poster representation of the festival. A group that came out with a ‘Rim Jhim’ rain festival and the group of both the Principals of Sherkhi and Sama with ‘Mood festival’ were adjudged as the best ones with respect to thinking out of the box and for been highly creative and extra ordinary.
Then there was an activity wherein the learners were asked to compose a six line verse on any adorable person in their life depicting the qualities of the person using various parts of speech. A few teachers who could complete read it in front of the gathering of which one was on the Principal of PWS Sherkhi highlighting her pearls of wisdom & her effective accomplishment of tasks which was appreciated. Such ,activities if done in class will enhance the skills and vocabulary of children.
A video clipping of the movie ‘Karate Kids’ was shown to understand and analyse the role of mentor in a student’s journey of life. The resource person displayed various steps towards effective mentoring through a PPT. The workshop was concluded by conducting a quiz to check the understanding of the learners and to sum up the effective assimilations of the objectives of the workshop.
Thus it was a day when teachers understood the importance of being a facilitator who is a guide by side as an effective mentor in the life of the learners.
