Our Competencies

The danger in spelling out one's strengths & competencies is that you constantly feel you are overdoing it and would rather be modest. In an attempt to overcome this dilemma, we have tried to be very specific and detailed. Most of what we've spelled out here, we can substantiate by showing to you the work that we have done. (A lot of it is already on our website and we are constantly adding more). If we have tended to be little aspirational in few places - that is purely out our self belief that we can do it :-))

Also certain terms are hyperlinked to offer you more details.

A) Children & Learning related
A1. Ability to Design learning activities, lesson plans and curriculum ideas for any age group and any subject.
      (Age groups would range from two years to 13 years)
      (Subjects would range from all academic subjects to other areas like Arts, Music, Physical dev., life skills, etc)
A2. Extensive expertise in designing and implementing programs using Multiple Intelligence framework.
A3. Design and implement activities, programs and resources to develop, in children:
     ~ higher order thinking skills
     ~ Success Skills (including social and emotional skills)
A4. Ability to conceptualise and design games which lead to fun-learning - the games can be group games, individual at home games or even computer based games. Further these games can be on any area of child's development.
A5. Ability to conceptualize, design and facilitate projects which are both highly engaging and very meaningful for children. The projects typically cover multiple developmental or learning objectives. These can be stand alone or can be part of a program or curriculum.
A5. Training of children in study skills and lead to more effective and efficient learning (typically used by children 9years onwards).

B) Teacher & Schools related
B1. Training expertise in various areas of teacher skill development - (we have conducted more than 600 workshops for teachers). Obviously our expertise would be more in implementing an active classroom through Multiple Intelligence, student initiated and driven learning, making your teaching more holistic and engaging, learning styles etc. Click here to see a sample list of teacher training modules that we have already conducted.
B2. Support of teachers through design of curriculum value additions - these are typically aides, tools and activities that support a teacher in making her subject more engaging, experiential and lucid to children. These could be customised for a group of teachers or could be general idea with respect to a 'concept' or 'skill'.
B3. Offering a more development oriented assessment system - which, instead of being evaluative is more formative and constructive. Usage of observation based tracking system, self and peer evaluation and assessment fun-tools, etc.

C) Parenting related
C1. Parenting Training - helping parents understand children, understand learning & child development and giving them multiple insights and perspectives into their role as parents. (we have conducted more than 300 workshops for parents in companies, schools and for other groups of parents). Click here to see a sample list of Parenting training modules that we have already conducted.
C2. Support of parents through to-do-at-home activities, projects, etc. Also resources to guide parents to work on specific academic or behavioural or personality issues like for example spellings, tantrums, shyness, etc.
C3. One-to-one Counseling and guidance to individual parents on specific issues with respect to their child.