Anjuman I Islam's 1st October:-Programme on Gandhi Jayanti
The volunteers from Sarvodya Ashram conducted a porgramme to mark the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti. The students were shown a movie on the life of Mahatma Gandhi and various stories based on Gandhiji’s life were narrated to the students. Students shared their views and ideas pertaining to Gandhi and how they seek inspiration from him.
3rd October:-Workshop on Reading and Reflecting.
A one day workshop on reading and reflecting was held at Anjuman-I-Islam’s Akbar Peerbhoy College of Education,Vashi.Two of our teachers Ms.Khan Ayesha and Mrs.Saba Ansari attended the workshop. The workshop was based on ‘Reading Beyond Textbooks and Metacognition Skills for Reading’. It was indeed a very informative and an interactive workshop.
5th October:-NIE Teachers’ Meet.
The Times of India’s Newspaper in Education organized a trip to Kidzania at R-city Mall (Ghatkopar), Mrs.Tasneem Shaikh our NIE coordinator attended it. The event provided the opportunity to the teachers to journey their childhood back through the various activities provided there. It also gave them an insight to further refine their teaching skills as they developed a better understanding of the needs and aspiration of young adults.
14th October:-ICT Workshop
Our ICT teachers Mrs.Tasneem Shaikh and Mrs Nazneen Khan attended the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for digital empowerment initiated by Ahaan Foundation and supported by the Ministry of Primary, Higher and Technical Education Maharashtra. It empowered the teachers to mentor the process of building responsible citizen, thus advocating cyber safety. It also trained and empowered teachers and children to roll out “Digital Dost”campaign in school so as to provide a background for any students who wishes to share and address issues related to digital distress within schools
26th October:-SFA Meeting.
Second Parents Meeting:Skills For Adoloscence
The second SFA Parents Teacher Meeting was held on 26th October’ 2015 in the school premises .The topic for this meeting was “Improving Communication Skills”.
It is very important for parents to be able to communicate openly and effectively with their children .Open and effective communication benefits not only the children, but every member of the family. Relationships between parents and their children are greatly improved when there is effective communication and it helps to build confidence among the children and allows them to share their experiences. It also encourages the flow of information more freely and thus build positive and healthy attitudes among themselves.
The meeting started with a short prayer and the parents were welcomed.
The previous meeting minutes were reviewed. Activities for the parents like get well acquainted with each other was conducted Here the parents were given badges, the parents with the similar one had to sit together and discuss with each other the things that were common among them and later they were asked to come up and share the same with the other parents. The parents thus got an opportunity to interact with each other. Later, the SFA teachers spoke to the parents about how they should communicate and how they should not communicate with the children in the form of speech, presentations, plays done by the students, you tube videos, etc.
The parents too shared their experience later.
Thus a positive communication was developed by the SFA teachers between parents and their children. It immensely helped their children to establish individual values and empowered them to have healthy discussions with their parents and take positive decisions for their future more confidently.
31st October:-Inter Anjuman Debate Competition for Teachers
It was held at Anjuman-I-Islam, CST where in our teachers Ms. Saba,Ms Nazneen,Ms.Shazia participated in the Competition from our school. The topic for Debate was “Are we ideal teachers”. It was really a very good competition and the topic was very well selected as it gave an opportunity for everyone to introspect the kind of teachers we ought to be in the 21st Century Education.