2017-18

Pushpadeep (Pushpanjali’s Dept of Extension Education Activities) organises many programmes to augment the regular curricular inputs. Mr Pius Almeida, Retd Superintendent St Stanislaus High School Bandra interacted with students and guided them regarding various records and documents to be maintained by the school office. Thus he emphasized the interdependence of the teaching faculty and the office staff.
Dr Helen Jadhav conducted a course on Life Skills for Teachers. She dwelt on important life skills such as time management, stress management, communication and interpersonal skills.Ms Heather Gabriel conducted a workshop on Use of Puppets for Classroom Teaching.
On 23 September, students of S.Y.B.Ed attended a lecture on Child Abuse. The resource person Ms Jean Pereira, Counsellor at Kripa Foundation said that teachers have to go beyond the classroom content and stay updated about the current events and happenings in today’s world. They also are required to be tech-savvy to cope up with the pressure of handling the gen-next children who get a vast exposure to media and technology right from an early age.  She emphasised the need for sex education and spoke about child abuse in its different forms – verbal, emotional, physical and sexual. She threw light on substance abuse and addiction. The talk was supported by many case studies.
Students of F.Y.B.Ed visited National School Virar and interacted with the Principal and teachers. The experience was useful to learn how the school ambience can add to meaningful learning. The students learned how every corner of a school can be used as a learning space.

Massive Open Online Course(MOOC) completed by students

Students completed a MOOC on Technology Enabled Learning. The course was hosted by Commonwealth of Learning.