Teachers research on best learning practices

A number of educators, teachers, principals were left inspired at an event that saw 85 teachers presenting their extensive research on innovative resources and adapted strategies to improve teaching and learning across the school.

The event held at The Kindergarten Starters (KGS), Garhoud, aimed to identify day to day issues teachers face while dealing with students and to enhance their teaching skills by finding innovative, evidence-based solutions. The top three best innovative action researchers were awarded gold coins.

Talking about her research that bagged the first position, Princy Soosepper, said: "I researched on the impact of using Cognitive Analysist Test (CAT 4) data in daily lessons. This test that we conduct on students from Grade 3 and Grade 4 helps us differentiate students based on their learning abilities and their potential. This helps us create different strategies for them to help them achieve the common target."

KGS principal Asha Alexander said: "In a world where the future of education is uncertain, the only certainty is teachers who can embrace and adapt to change. Action research allows teachers to explore and embrace change while reflecting deeply on how their own knowledge can be used to make the experiences unique for children in our classrooms.

Michael Guzdar, vice-president for education at six largest Gems schools, said: "Today I saw passionate educators and great research because not very often we see teachers learning for themselves. Usually, teachers are just focused on the syllabus and get very little time on researching on new techniques to making learning more fun and easier and teaching children how to learn. As educators, our job is to teach children how to learn. It was so much fun to see teachers take up topics and initiatives to improve learning, introduce new styles of learning to make the process of learning fun."

First runners-up at the event were Sithi Jamal, Sakina Ummeabiha, Rafath Sultana, Warda Ellahi and Jisha Sebastian, who won 2gm gold coin each for their research on the impact of an articulated curriculum of generosity on personal, social and emotional skills of students aged 5-6 years.

"Ours was a hard task as we wanted to investigate the impact of an articulated curriculum of generosity on four and five-year-old kids. We took some time to make the kids understand the real meaning of being generous by doing activities, motivating them to give away the things they loved the most, and by showing them a video of poor kids. The impact was amazing and we noticed a considerable difference in their generosity levels. They were willing to share and give."

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